Around Ohio
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 Ohio
Learn what to look for around your property, explore your city, and ask about an inspection or a quote.
Snakes in Ohio: 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 Ohio: what the public record shows
Before you compare quotes, it helps to know which snakes actually live in Ohio, when they are busiest, and what the state figures look like. Everything below links to the agency or university page it came from.
Ohio has only three venomous snake species: eastern copperhead, massasauga and timber rattlesnake.
Venomous species
Two of the three are rattlesnakes; the water moccasin is not native to Ohio.
Ohio Department of Natural Resources, Division of WildlifeCopperheads are widely scattered through most of unglaciated Ohio, favoring rocky wooded hillsides of southeastern Ohio.
Copperhead range
ODNR rates the eastern copperhead as uncommon and notes it tends to stay away from well-settled areas.
Ohio Department of Natural Resources, Division of WildlifeThe massasauga and the timber rattlesnake are both listed as endangered in Ohio.
Both rattlesnakes are state endangered
Massasauga colonies persist in bogs, swamps and wet prairies of glaciated Ohio; timber rattlesnakes survive only in scattered forests of southern unglaciated Ohio.
Ohio Department of Natural Resources, Division of WildlifeSnake species recorded in Ohio
- Timber rattlesnake (Crotalus horridus) — State endangered in Virginia (canebrake population in the southeast); northern Florida only as far south as Gainesville.
ODNR notes the water moccasin (cottonmouth) is often assumed to live in Ohio but is not native to the state.
Rules that apply in Ohio
For context, nationally
Sources: Ohio Department of Natural Resources, Division of Wildlife; CDC/NIOSH; Nuisance wildlife: Snakes. Figures are quoted as the source prints them. How we check our sources
