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Tick risk in Fayette County, Pennsylvania

Fayette County covers 43 towns. Its CDC Lyme rate of 126 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 Fayette County

Peak-season modeled risk. Tick risk is local, even within one county.

At the summer peak, tick risk across Fayette County runs from Seven Springs Borough (moderate) at the high end to Uniontown (moderate) at the low end. The difference is habitat: forest cover across the county ranges from 32% to 93%, and more forest and woodland edge means more places ticks can quest for a host.

Seven Springs BoroughModerate risk
Stewart TownshipModerate risk
Connellsville TownshipModerate risk
Ohiopyle BoroughModerate risk
Wharton TownshipModerate risk

Tick species in Fayette 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 Fayette County, not that a town is tick free. Source: CDC tick surveillance (ArboNET Tick Module), 2025.

Diseases found in local ticks

Lyme diseaseBabesiosisBorrelia miyamotoi (relapsing fever)Powassan virus

Pathogens detected in ticks tested from Fayette County (CDC tick-testing surveillance, 2025). This lists what has been found, not how common it is.

Tick control in Fayette County, PA

Professional tick control across Fayette 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 Fayette County's more wooded towns.

How much does tick control cost in Fayette County?

Most Fayette 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 Fayette County

Which towns in Fayette County have the highest tick risk?

At the summer peak, Seven Springs Borough carries the highest modeled tick risk in Fayette County, followed by Stewart Township, Connellsville Township, Ohiopyle Borough, Wharton Township. Risk tracks how wooded a town is: forest cover across Fayette County ranges from 32% to 93%, and the more forest and woodland edge a town has, the more habitat ticks have to quest from. Uniontown sits at the low end. Every town has its own daily score, so check the one nearest you.

What ticks live in Fayette County?

CDC surveillance records 2 established tick species in Fayette 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 Fayette County?

Fayette County reports about 126 Lyme cases per 100,000 people a year (U.S. CDC), in the top 8% of U.S. counties for reported Lyme disease (the 37th-highest of Pennsylvania's 67 counties). Lyme is the dominant blacklegged-tick disease, so TickZone uses this county rate as the disease baseline behind every town's score.