Counties We Cover in Minnesota

Start from the county. In Minnesota, 24 counties fall inside the metros PestReach USA covers — the Minneapolis–St. Paul, Duluth, Rochester, St. Cloud areas among them — adding up to about 19,169 square miles. Pest pressure is read at this level because it is the level providers work at: routes, licensing and local rules all resolve to county and metro long before they resolve to state.

The counties around a metro's core are often where the pressure is most interesting — newer subdivisions built into former farmland and woodland meet established pest populations at the edge, while the urban core deals with the pests of density. Each county page reads its own position in that pattern.

By land, the covered counties run from St. Louis County (6,248 sq mi), Stearns County (1,343 sq mi), Clay County (1,045 sq mi) down to Ramsey County at about 152 square miles. The metros anchoring coverage are Minneapolis–St. Paul (metro population 3,790,295; 13 covered counties in Minnesota); Duluth (metro population 281,219; 2 covered counties in Minnesota); Rochester (metro population 231,184; 4 covered counties in Minnesota); St. Cloud (metro population 205,854; 2 covered counties in Minnesota). That is the arithmetic the county pages below work from: a county's size decides how spread out the addresses are, its metro decides the pest calendar, and neither number means much without the other.

Weather sets the calendar, and in Minneapolis–St. Paul — the state's anchor metro — it reads: 31 inches of precipitation annually, average temperatures around 46°F, 12 days reaching 90°F and 155 freezing days. The counties below share that regime; what changes county to county is housing, land and distance from the core.