Dunn County sees high tick risk, according to TickZone

According to TickZone, Dunn County ranks 36 of 72 Wisconsin counties for daily tick risk. The Town of Otter Creek and the Village of Wheeler have the highest risk.

Dunn County's CDC Lyme rate of 208 per 100,000 runs many times the 10-per-100,000 mark CDC uses to flag a high-incidence county.

TickZone, a free daily tick-risk forecast covering more than 31,000 towns across all 50 states, combines satellite land cover for each town, daily weather (temperature, humidity, and recent rainfall), and CDC county Lyme incidence.

Here is Dunn County's town-by-town page and the methodology:

https://tickzone.app/location/wisconsin/dunn-county

https://tickzone.app/methodology

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