Around Kansas
Conditions vary across the state. Choose your city below, then describe what’s happening around your home or business.
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Local raccoon information
Raccoon control in Kansas
Learn what to look for around your property, explore your city, and ask about an inspection or a quote.
Raccoons in Kansas: what to know
What to note
Where you see raccoons, 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
Raccoons in Kansas: what the public record shows
Before you compare quotes, it helps to know which raccoons actually live in Kansas, when they are busiest, and what the state figures look like. Everything below links to the agency or university page it came from.
Not required
Permit to control problem raccoons
Raccoons are classified as furbearers in Kansas; under KSA 32-1002 problem raccoons can be controlled without a permit.
Kansas State University Research and ExtensionApril and May
When kits are born
Most breeding is in February with a 63-day gestation; usually one litter per year of 4 to 7 young, which stay in the den until 8 to 10 weeks old and are weaned in August.
Kansas State University Research and ExtensionAbout 5 percent
Raccoons exposed to rabies in Kansas
Exposed animals carry antibodies but were not killed by the virus; Kansas raccoons are extremely resistant to the skunk-strain rabies common in the Midwest.
Kansas State University Research and ExtensionRaccoon species recorded in Kansas
- Raccoon (Procyon lotor) — Present in all 48 contiguous states; furbearer/game animal in most, with seasons, but nuisance take is generally allowed on one's own property.
When raccoons are busiest in Kansas
Breeding in February; kits born April and May, weaned in August.
Rules that apply in Kansas
For context, nationally
Sources: Kansas State University Research and Extension; CDC; Pest Notes: Raccoons. Figures are quoted as the source prints them. How we check our sources
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