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Snake control in Oklahoma

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Snakes in Oklahoma: what to know

Around Oklahoma

Conditions vary across the state. Choose your city below, then describe what’s happening around your home or business.

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 Oklahoma: what the public record shows

Before you compare quotes, it helps to know which snakes actually live in Oklahoma, when they are busiest, and what the state figures look like. Everything below links to the agency or university page it came from.

Oklahoma's snake diversity includes 49 species; the remaining eight are rattlesnakes, copperheads and the cottonmouth, all pit vipers.

Venomous species

ODWC names western diamond-backed, prairie and western massasauga rattlesnakes among them.

Oklahoma Department of Wildlife Conservation

Oklahoma Poison Center data for 2024 attribute snakebite cases to copperheads (76%), rattlesnakes (18%) and cottonmouths (5.7%).

Which species actually bite

Copperheads account for the large majority of Oklahoma snakebite calls.

Oklahoma Department of Wildlife Conservation

The northern cottonmouth's US range extends west only as far as central southern Oklahoma.

Cottonmouth range

In western Oklahoma a dark snake near water is not a cottonmouth.

Oklahoma Department of Wildlife Conservation

Snake species recorded in Oklahoma

Copperhead (Agkistrodon contortrix) — Statewide in Virginia and common in gardens and woodlots; the most common venomous species in the Mid-Atlantic. In Florida only the western Panhandle.
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 Oklahoma

ODWC describes a fall 'second spring' for Oklahoma reptiles, when temperatures in the 60s and 70s drive a second peak of activity before animals go dormant.

ODWC says eight species are venomous and names no coral snake; the seven listed here are the ones individually confirmed on ODWC pages, and ODWC notes two copperhead species are thought to occur in the state.

Rules that apply in Oklahoma

ODWC reptile and amphibian regulations

For context, nationally

7,000-8,000; about 5 deaths — Venomous snakebites per year in the U.S.. CDC/NIOSH
10-44 percent — Rattlesnake bite victims with lasting injury. CDC/NIOSH

Sources: Oklahoma Department of Wildlife Conservation; 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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Snake control in Oklahoma

Snakes in Oklahoma: what to know

Around Oklahoma

What to note

A useful next step

Snakes in Oklahoma: what the public record shows

Snake species recorded in Oklahoma

When snakes are busiest in Oklahoma

Rules that apply in Oklahoma

For context, nationally

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