Inside the metros we cover sit 32 New York counties. Every one has a page here — its pest pressure, its place in its metro, and the services that reach it.
Phone lines: Mon-Fri 7:00 AM-10:00 PM ET | Sat 8:00 AM-10:00 PM ET | Sun 7:00 AM-9:00 PM ET
New York has 32 counties inside the metro areas this site covers — together about 18,600 square miles of the state, organised around the New York, Buffalo, Rochester, Albany, Poughkeepsie, Syracuse metro areas. County pages exist because pest work is local at exactly this scale: licensing is by state, wildlife rules can vary locally, and a provider's actual service routes follow county and metro lines rather than state borders. Find your county below for its pest pressure profile and the metro guides that serve it.
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 Herkimer County (1,411 sq mi), Oneida County (1,212 sq mi), Ulster County (1,124 sq mi) down to New York County at about 23 square miles. The metros anchoring coverage are New York (metro population 20,112,448; 10 covered counties in New York); Buffalo (metro population 1,155,653; 2 covered counties in New York); Rochester (metro population 1,056,149; 5 covered counties in New York); Albany (metro population 915,835; 5 covered counties in New York); Poughkeepsie (metro population 718,377; 2 covered counties in New York); Syracuse (metro population 652,273; 3 covered counties in New York); Utica (metro population 285,611; 2 covered counties in New York); Binghamton (metro population 243,189; 2 covered counties in New York); Kingston (metro population 183,330; 1 covered county in New York). Those numbers are the frame for everything on the county pages below: area sets how rural a county reads, the metro sets its pest calendar, and the two together set what providers actually deal with there.
Weather sets the calendar, and in New York — the state's anchor metro — it reads: 46 inches of precipitation annually, average temperatures around 55°F, 29 days reaching 90°F and 89 freezing days. The counties below share that regime; what changes county to county is housing, land and distance from the core.
Statewide, the recurring names on county pages are carpenter ants, ticks, house mice — the signature of northeast country. The biggest covered county, Herkimer County (1,411 square miles), is served through the Utica metro; metro-level guides live on the New York state page.
The communities county residents actually name: New York (about 8,516,202 residents), Newark (about 307,188 residents), Jersey City (about 289,691 residents), Buffalo (about 276,397 residents), Rochester (about 209,720 residents), Yonkers (about 209,529 residents) top the list of covered communities here. Each belongs to a county on this page — open that county for the pest picture at community level.
New York — about 20,112,448 residents across 22 counties. The local watch list: carpenter ants, ticks and house mice, in a metro where four full seasons — summer ticks and carpenter ants, fall invasions, winter rodent pressure.
Buffalo — about 1,155,653 residents across 2 counties. The local watch list: carpenter ants, ticks and house mice, in a metro where four full seasons — summer ticks and carpenter ants, fall invasions, winter rodent pressure.
Rochester — about 1,056,149 residents across 5 counties. The local watch list: carpenter ants, ticks and house mice, in a metro where four full seasons — summer ticks and carpenter ants, fall invasions, winter rodent pressure.
Albany — about 915,835 residents across 5 counties. The local watch list: carpenter ants, ticks and house mice, in a metro where four full seasons — summer ticks and carpenter ants, fall invasions, winter rodent pressure.
Poughkeepsie — a metro of 718,377 across 2 counties, where the watch list runs carpenter ants, ticks, house mice — the standing pattern where four full seasons — summer ticks and carpenter ants, fall invasions, winter rodent pressure.
Syracuse — a metro of 652,273 across 3 counties, where the watch list runs carpenter ants, ticks, house mice — the standing pattern where four full seasons — summer ticks and carpenter ants, fall invasions, winter rodent pressure.
Utica — about 285,611 residents across 2 counties. The local watch list: carpenter ants, ticks and house mice, in a metro where four full seasons — summer ticks and carpenter ants, fall invasions, winter rodent pressure.
Binghamton — a metro of 243,189 across 2 counties, where the watch list runs carpenter ants, ticks, house mice — the standing pattern where four full seasons — summer ticks and carpenter ants, fall invasions, winter rodent pressure.
Tell us what you are seeing — ants in the kitchen, a nest under the eaves, scratching in the attic — and where you are located.
Your call is routed to an independent local pest control professional who serves your area and handles your type of problem.
The provider inspects, identifies the pest, explains the plan and its terms directly to you, and carries out the work.