Around Arkansas
Conditions vary across the state. Choose your city below, then describe what’s happening around your home or business.
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Local snake information
Snake control in Arkansas
Learn what to look for around your property, explore your city, and ask about an inspection or a quote.
Snakes in Arkansas: what to know
What to note
Where you see snakes, how long it has been going on, and anything you’ve already tried are the most useful details to mention.
A useful next step
Ask about an inspection, what treatment would involve, and whether follow-up visits are included. You don’t need to identify the problem yourself before getting in touch.
Local research
Snakes in Arkansas: what the public record shows
Before you compare quotes, it helps to know which snakes actually live in Arkansas, when they are busiest, and what the state figures look like. Everything below links to the agency or university page it came from.
Of the 39 species of native snakes in Arkansas, only six are venomous: eastern copperhead, northern cottonmouth, western diamond-backed rattlesnake, timber rattlesnake, western pigmy rattlesnake and Texas gulf-coast coralsnake.
Venomous species
Copperheads and cottonmouths occur statewide; the other four are more localized.
University of Arkansas System Division of Agriculture Cooperative Extension ServiceThe Texas gulf-coast coralsnake is rare and occurs in the southwestern portion of Arkansas, in moist pine or hardwood forests with loose sandy soils.
Coral snake range
It has round pupils and a slender head, so the usual pit-viper cues do not apply.
University of Arkansas System Division of Agriculture Cooperative Extension ServiceThe western diamond-backed rattlesnake occurs in west-central Arkansas in upland rocky, open pine-hardwood forests and rocky outcrops.
Diamondback range
Timber rattlesnakes, by contrast, occur statewide.
University of Arkansas System Division of Agriculture Cooperative Extension ServiceSnake species recorded in Arkansas
- Timber rattlesnake (Crotalus horridus) — State endangered in Virginia (canebrake population in the southeast); northern Florida only as far south as Gainesville.
- Western diamond-backed rattlesnake (Crotalus atrox) — Southwest deserts; one of California's nine.
When snakes are busiest in Arkansas
Extension notes snakes are more active at night in the heat of summer and more active during daylight hours in late fall and early spring, when they bask on rocks and in sunny patches.
Rules that apply in Arkansas
For context, nationally
Sources: University of Arkansas System Division of Agriculture Cooperative Extension Service; CDC/NIOSH; Nuisance wildlife: Snakes; Pest Notes: Rattlesnakes. Figures are quoted as the source prints them. How we check our sources
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