69of 100

Today's score

Ticks in Burns, NY

Allegany County

High risk

Conditions strongly favor tick activity. Cover up, use repellent, and check carefully, including kids and pets.

Updated August 17, 2026

Life stage
Nymphs & lone-star larvae
Forest
67%
Tick species
2 of 5 here

Right now

Latest reading
68°
Temperature
83%
Humidity
0.5"
Recent rain

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7-day outlook

Risk recalculates daily from the local forecast.

Today
69
Tue
62
Wed
62
Thu
61
Fri
59
Sat
57
Sun
58

What's active right now

Deer-tick nymphs are tapering as lone-star seed ticks swarm where that tick is established. Late-summer risk stays meaningful in brushy, wooded areas. Where the lone star tick lives (coastal and southern areas), aggressive larval 'seed tick' swarms peak now.

Local tick habitat

Burns is 83% natural land cover (67% forest, plus open and brushy areas) across its 27.22 sq mi, home to about 1,021 people. That makes it the 29th-most wooded of the 30 towns in Allegany County. Deer ticks live in wooded areas, along trail edges, and in tall grass: the more of that a town has, the more places ticks can quest.

Allegany County reports about 315 Lyme cases per 100,000 people a year, in the top 2% of U.S. counties for reported Lyme disease. That county-level disease pressure, combined with Burns's local habitat, sets how high its daily score can climb when the weather and season allow.

Tick control in Burns, NY

Do I need tick control in Burns?

Tick activity in Burns is high today (69/100), and the town is 83% natural land cover, the wooded and brushy habitat ticks quest from. If kids or pets use the yard, this is when a professional barrier treatment does the most good.

Professional tick control in Burns typically 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.

How much does tick control cost in Burns?

Most 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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Is it tick season in Burns right now?

Yes. Deer-tick nymphs are tapering as lone-star seed ticks swarm where that tick is established. In Burns, today's risk reads high (69/100). Conditions strongly favor tick activity. Cover up, use repellent, and check carefully, including kids and pets.

Nearby towns

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