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Tick risk in Greene County, New York
Greene County covers 14 towns. Its CDC Lyme rate of 356 cases per 100,000 people a year ranks in the top 2% 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 Greene County
Peak-season modeled risk. Tick risk is local, even within one county.
Tick species in Greene County
CDC county surveillance (established or reported)
- Deer tickEstablished
- American dog tickEstablished
- Lone star tickReported
- Gulf Coast tickNot established
Established in this county for the deer tick, the main Lyme carrier. “Not established” means no CDC surveillance record for Greene 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 Greene County (CDC tick-testing surveillance, 2025). This lists what has been found, not how common it is.
Tick control in Greene County, NY
Professional tick control across Greene 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 Greene County's more wooded towns.
How much does tick control cost in Greene County?
Most Greene 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 Greene County
Which towns in Greene County have the highest tick risk?
At the summer peak, Hunter carries the highest modeled tick risk in Greene County, followed by Lexington, Halcott, Jewett, Cairo. Risk tracks how wooded a town is: forest cover across Greene County ranges from 68% to 97%, and the more forest and woodland edge a town has, the more habitat ticks have to quest from. Coxsackie sits at the low end. Every town has its own daily score, so check the one nearest you.
What ticks live in Greene County?
CDC surveillance records 2 established tick species in Greene 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 Greene County?
Greene County reports about 356 Lyme cases per 100,000 people a year (U.S. CDC), in the top 2% of U.S. counties for reported Lyme disease (the 9th-highest of New York's 62 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 Greene County
Tick risk is local. Pick the town nearest you.