This Is How Many Types of Highly Venomous Spiders Are in Your State
These potentially dangerous eight-legged critters may just be living outside your backdoor.
![Black Widow Spider](https://bestlifeonline.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/3/2021/08/shutterstock_1264720564.jpg?quality=82&strip=1&resize=640%2C360)
Arachnophobia—or the extreme or irrational fear of spiders—is one of the most common phobias in the United States and around the world. In fact, researchers used results from the National Comorbidity Survey to estimate a prevalence rate of 3.5 percent of arachnophobia among the general population in the U.S. And while it's true that the vast majority of spiders in our country pose little to no serious physical threat to humans, there is still a variety of highly venomous spiders in nearly every state in the country.
Best Life pored over multiple sources in order to determine the highly venomous spiders in every U.S. state, using SpiderIdentifications.com as our main resource for the following list, and verifying the information with at least one other credible source wherever possible, including those from each state's health department. However, it is important to keep in mind that nearly all spiders are technically venomous to some degree, but we only included species that are widely considered to be the biggest threats. With that said, read on to discover how many highly venomous spiders live in your state and around the country.
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Alabama
![river with boats and boathouses in alabama](https://bestlifeonline.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/3/2020/01/magnolia-springs-alabama-river.jpg)
- Southern Black Widow
- Northern Black Widow
- Brown Widow
- Brown Recluse
- Chilean Recluse
- Mediterranean Recluse
Alaska
![glaciers, lake, and tress in Chugach, Alaska](https://bestlifeonline.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/3/2020/11/chugach-alaska.jpg?quality=82&strip=all)
There are no highly venomous spiders native to the state of Alaska.
Arizona
![landscape photo of Phoenix, Arizona at sunset](https://bestlifeonline.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/3/2020/11/phoenix-arizona-2.jpg?quality=82&strip=all)
- Arizona Brown Spider
- Southern Black Widow
Arkansas
![green trees and Hamilton Lake at sunset in Garland County, Arkansas](https://bestlifeonline.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/3/2020/10/arkansas-garland-county.jpg?quality=82&strip=all)
- Brown Recluse
- Southern Black Widow
California
![Beach in Northern California](https://bestlifeonline.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/3/2021/04/beach.jpg?quality=82&strip=all)
- Western Black Widow
- Brown Widow
- Chilean Recluse
- Desert Recluse
- Yellow Sac Spider
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Colorado
![trees reflecting in a pond in Aurora, Colorado](https://bestlifeonline.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/3/2020/11/aurora-colorado.jpg?quality=82&strip=all)
- Western Black Widow
- Brown Recluse
- Yellow Sac Spider
Connecticut
![Lynde Point Lighthouse, Old Saybrook, Connecticut, USA](https://bestlifeonline.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/3/2020/04/old-saybrook-connecticut.jpg?quality=82&strip=all)
- Black Widow
- Brown Recluse
Delaware
![The aerial view of the beach town, fishing port and waterfront residential homes along the canal Lewes Delaware](https://bestlifeonline.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/3/2020/02/lewes-delaware.jpg)
- Black Widow
- Brown Recluse
Florida
![The shoreline and beach of Boca Chita in Biscayne National Park Florida](https://bestlifeonline.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/3/2020/02/biscayne-national-park-florida.jpg?quality=82&strip=all)
- Southern Black Widow
- Northern Black Widow
- Red Widow
- Brown Widow
- Brown Recluse
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Georgia
![Alpharetta, Georgia](https://bestlifeonline.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/3/2021/06/shutterstock_1204597210.jpg?quality=82&strip=all)
- Brown Recluse
- Brown Widow
- Northern Black Widow
- Southern Black Widow
- False Black Widow
Hawaii
![landscape photo of the coastline of Na Pali Coast and mountain in Kauai, Hawaii](https://bestlifeonline.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/3/2020/11/kaui-hawaii.jpg?quality=82&strip=all)
- Brown Widow
- Southern Black Widow
Idaho
![the Sawtooth Mountain Range and lake in Stanley, Idaho](https://bestlifeonline.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/3/2020/11/stanleu-idaho.jpg?quality=82&strip=all)
- Western Black Widow
- Brown Recluse
- Yellow Sac Spider
Illinois
![landscape photo of flowers and a field in Naperville, Illinois at sunset](https://bestlifeonline.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/3/2020/11/naperville-illinois.jpg?quality=82&strip=all)
- Northern Black Widow
- Brown Recluse
Indiana
![The amphitheatre and Phlips Pond at Coffee Creek Watershed Preserve in Chesterton Indiana](https://bestlifeonline.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/3/2020/02/chesterton-indiana.jpg)
- Brown Recluse
- Southern Black Widow
Iowa
![Marion, Iowa](https://bestlifeonline.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/3/2019/04/marion-iowa.jpg?quality=82&strip=all)
- Brown Recluse
- Southern Black Widow
Kansas
![Cityscape photo of Overland Park, Kansas](https://bestlifeonline.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/3/2021/07/overland-park-kansas.jpg?quality=82&strip=all)
- Brown Recluse
- Western Black Widow
- Southern Black Widow
- Northern Black Widow
Kentucky
![Just outside Nicholasville, Kentucky](https://bestlifeonline.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/3/2021/07/nicholasville-kentucky.jpg?quality=82&strip=all)
- Northern Black Widow
- Southern Black Widow
- Brown Recluse
Louisiana
![A wooden boardwalk stretching into he Black Bayou Lake National Wildlife Refuge in Monroe, Louisiana](https://bestlifeonline.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/3/2021/03/monroe-louisiana.jpg?quality=82&strip=all)
- Brown Widow
- Northern Black Widow
- Southern Black Widow
- Brown Recluse
Maine
![cityscape photos of Portland, Maine](https://bestlifeonline.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/3/2020/11/portland-maine-1.jpg?quality=82&strip=all)
There are no highly venomous spiders native to the state of Maine.
Maryland
![Bethesda Maryland Home](https://bestlifeonline.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/3/2021/07/Maryland-Bethesda.jpg?quality=82&strip=all)
- Northern Black Widow
- Southern Black Widow
- Brown Recluse
Massachusetts
![lighthouse, townhouse, and empty road in Cape Cod, Massachusetts](https://bestlifeonline.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/3/2020/10/cape-code-massachusetts.jpg?quality=82&strip=all)
- Northern Black Widow
Michigan
![cityscape photo of Kalamazoo, Michigan in the afternoon](https://bestlifeonline.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/3/2020/10/kalamazoo-michigan.jpg)
- Brown Recluse
- Northern Black Widow
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Minnesota
![Edina Minnesota](https://bestlifeonline.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/3/2021/07/Minnesota-Edina.jpg?quality=82&strip=all)
- Northern Black Widow
- Brown Recluse
- Yellow Sac Spider
Mississippi
![jackson mississippi, capital, most common street names](https://bestlifeonline.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/3/2019/04/jackson-mississippi.jpg)
- Brown Recluse
- Southern Black Widow
Missouri
![green fields by the Missouri River in Glasgow, Missouri](https://bestlifeonline.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/3/2020/11/glasgow-missouri.jpg?quality=82&strip=all)
- Northern Black Widow
- Southern Black Widow
- Brown Recluse
Montana
![Montana](https://bestlifeonline.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/3/2020/11/mn.jpg?quality=82&strip=all)
- Black Widow
Nebraska
![Downtown Omaha Nebraska Drone Photo](https://bestlifeonline.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/3/2021/05/omaha-nebraska.jpg?quality=82&strip=all)
- Brown Recluse
- Western Black Widow
- Southern Black Widow
Nevada
![historic buildings in the lonely city of Eureka Nevada](https://bestlifeonline.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/3/2020/02/eureka-nevada.jpg)
- Desert Recluse
- Brown Widow
- Western Black Widow
New Hampshire
![Etna New Hampshire](https://bestlifeonline.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/3/2021/05/shutterstock_151993256.jpg)
- Brown Recluse
- Black Widow
- Broad-Face Sac Spider
New Jersey
![New Jersey, located on Upper New York Bay in Jersey City, opposite both Liberty Island and Ellis Island.](https://bestlifeonline.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/3/2020/03/hoboken-new-jersey.jpg)
- Northern Black Widow
- Brown Recluse
- Yellow Sac Spider
New Mexico
![cityscape photo of buildings and trees in Albuquerque, New Mexico](https://bestlifeonline.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/3/2020/11/albuquerque-new-mexico.jpg?quality=82&strip=all)
- Western Black Widow
- Brown Recluse
New York
![Rochester New York](https://bestlifeonline.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/3/2021/02/ny.jpg?quality=82&strip=all)
- Northern Black Widow
- Southern Black Widow
- Brown Recluse
North Carolina
![Aerial over the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in the spring.](https://bestlifeonline.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/3/2021/07/chapel-hill-north-carolina-snakes.jpg?quality=82&strip=all)
- Southern Black Widow
- Northern Black Widow
- Brown Recluse
- False Black Widow
- Yellow Sac Spider
North Dakota
![north dakota, bridge, water](https://bestlifeonline.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/3/2021/04/north-dakota-bridge.jpg?quality=82&strip=all)
- Western Black Widow
Ohio
![Ohio](https://bestlifeonline.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/3/2021/05/ohio.jpg?quality=82&strip=all)
- Northern Black Widow
- Southern Black Widow
- Brown Recluse
- Mediterranean Recluse
- Yellow Sac Spider
- False Black Widow
Oklahoma
![The skyline of Oklahoma City, Oklahoma](https://bestlifeonline.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/3/2021/04/oklahoma-city-skyline-covid-cases-surge.jpg)
- Northern Black Widow
- Southern Black Widow
- Brown Recluse
Oregon
![landscape photo of Mt. Bachelor reflecting in Todd Lake in Bend, Oregon at dusk](https://bestlifeonline.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/3/2021/01/bend-oreogn.jpg?quality=82&strip=all)
- Western Black Widow
Pennsylvania
![West Chester Pennsylvania](https://bestlifeonline.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/3/2021/07/Pennsylvania-West-Chester.jpg?quality=82&strip=all)
- Southern Black Widow
- Brown Recluse
Rhode Island
![flowers and beach in Newport, Rhode Island](https://bestlifeonline.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/3/2020/11/newport-rhode-island.jpg?quality=82&strip=all)
- Northern Black Widow
- Brown Recluse
South Carolina
![landscape photo of a garden in Charleston, South Carolina](https://bestlifeonline.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/3/2020/11/charleston-south-carolina.jpg)
- Northern Black Widow
- Southern Black Widow
- Brown Widow
- Brown Recluse
South Dakota
![The skyline of Rapid City, South Dakota](https://bestlifeonline.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/3/2021/07/rapid-city-south-dakota-skyline-covid-surges-states.jpg)
- Western Black Widow
- Brown Recluse
Tennessee
![aerial view of gatlinburg tennessee](https://bestlifeonline.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/3/2020/02/gatlinburg-tennessee.jpg)
- Southern Black Widow
- Northern Black Widow
- Brown Recluse
Texas
![The Woodlands, Texas](https://bestlifeonline.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/3/2021/06/shutterstock_1246015291.jpg?quality=82&strip=all)
- Northern Black Widow
- Western Black Widow
- Southern Black Widow
- Brown Recluse
- Texas Recluse
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Utah
![Salt Lake City, Utah](https://bestlifeonline.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/3/2020/02/salt-lake-city-utah.jpg)
- Black Widow
- Desert Recluse
- Yellow Sac Spider
Vermont
![south burlington vermont mountainscape](https://bestlifeonline.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/3/2020/12/south-burlington-vermont.jpg?quality=82&strip=all)
- Northern Black Widow
Virginia
![landscape photo of Buchanan, Virginia](https://bestlifeonline.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/3/2020/11/bunchanan-virginia.jpg)
- Southern Black Widow
- Northern Black Widow
Washington
![cityscape photo of downtown Spokane, Washington](https://bestlifeonline.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/3/2020/12/spokane-washington.jpg?quality=82&strip=all)
- Black Widow
- Yellow Sac Spider
West Virginia
![buildings and church in the town of Harper's Ferry, West Virginia](https://bestlifeonline.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/3/2020/10/harpers-ferry-west-virginia.jpg?quality=82&strip=all)
- Southern Black Widow
Wisconsin
![landscape photo of Baraboo, Wisconsin](https://bestlifeonline.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/3/2020/11/baraboo-wisconsin.jpg?quality=82&strip=all)
- Northern Black Widow
- Brown Recluse
Wyoming
![Wyoming house](https://bestlifeonline.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/3/2021/07/Wyoming-Green-River.jpg?quality=82&strip=all)
- Western Black Widow
- Brown Recluse
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