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Tick risk in Strafford County, New Hampshire
Strafford County covers 13 towns. Its CDC Lyme rate of 109 cases per 100,000 people a year ranks in the top 8% of U.S. counties for reported Lyme disease. CDC surveillance lists Deer tick and American dog tick as established here. Pick your town below for today's score, a 7-day outlook, and what's driving it.
Highest and lowest tick risk in Strafford County
Peak-season modeled risk. Tick risk is local, even within one county.
At the summer peak, tick risk across Strafford County runs from Middleton (moderate) at the high end to Dover (moderate) at the low end. The difference is habitat: forest cover across the county ranges from 67% to 94%, and more forest and woodland edge means more places ticks can quest for a host.
- MiddletonModerate risk
- New DurhamModerate risk
- BarringtonModerate risk
- StraffordModerate risk
- FarmingtonModerate risk
Tick species in Strafford County
CDC county surveillance (established or reported)
- Deer tickEstablished
- American dog tickEstablished
- Lone star tickNot established
- Gulf Coast tickNot established
Established in this county for the deer tick, the main Lyme carrier. “Not established” means no CDC surveillance record for Strafford County, not that a town is tick free. Source: CDC tick surveillance (ArboNET Tick Module), 2025.
Diseases found in local ticks
Pathogens detected in ticks tested from Strafford County (CDC tick-testing surveillance, 2025). This lists what has been found, not how common it is.
Tick control in Strafford County, NH
Professional tick control across Strafford County usually means a barrier treatment along the lawn edge, leaf litter, stone walls, and shady borders where ticks wait for a host, applied two to four times a season by a licensed pest control company. It is the single most effective way to cut tick numbers in the part of the yard your family actually uses, and it matters most in Strafford County's more wooded towns.
How much does tick control cost in Strafford County?
Most Strafford County homeowners pay about $100 to $200 per visit for professional tick spraying, or roughly $350 to $600 for a full season of barrier treatments, depending on lot size and how wooded the property is. Quotes are free, so it costs nothing to get a real number for your yard.
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Common questions about ticks in Strafford County
Which towns in Strafford County have the highest tick risk?
At the summer peak, Middleton carries the highest modeled tick risk in Strafford County, followed by New Durham, Barrington, Strafford, Farmington. Risk tracks how wooded a town is: forest cover across Strafford County ranges from 67% to 94%, and the more forest and woodland edge a town has, the more habitat ticks have to quest from. Dover sits at the low end. Every town has its own daily score, so check the one nearest you.
What ticks live in Strafford County?
CDC surveillance records 2 established tick species in Strafford County: Deer tick, American dog tick. The blacklegged (deer) tick is the main carrier of Lyme disease in the Northeast. "Not established" for a species means there is no CDC surveillance record for the county, not that the tick is absent.
Is Lyme disease common in Strafford County?
Strafford County reports about 109 Lyme cases per 100,000 people a year (U.S. CDC), in the top 8% of U.S. counties for reported Lyme disease (the 4th-highest of New Hampshire's 10 counties). Lyme is the dominant blacklegged-tick disease, so TickZone uses this county rate as the disease baseline behind every town's score.
All towns in Strafford County
Tick risk is local. Pick the town nearest you.