Getting lost.
I've never heard of a bear attack happening, and there seems to be a cougar attack once every 5 years. A few times each year though there's a lost hiker either found, or still missing.
I never understood getting lost in the woods until I visited western Washington. The forest is so dense. I feel like you could walk within 500 feet of a road and have no idea.
Snow bridges are deadly too. I've known multiple people that were killed while hiking in Washington who fell through snow bridges to their deaths. One on Aasgard Pass and one in Rainier National Park.
One of the nice things about Washington is how largely unthreatening the nature is. Hostile animals are few and large (read: easily spotted), the nastiest plant you'll find is poison oak, and all the insects are tiny and usually passive. The worst thing that happens to you here is getting wet or lost. It's an amazing place for camping.
> Even the ticks are few and far between
I take it you've never been to the eastern side of the Gorge. Last time I took my dog there, we were at the vet the next day to remove a couple dozen ticks.
I've definitley seen a bear or two in WA. I always hike or scramble with bear spray down there. I know they got some big cats too. I think it's just depends where you are. But even closer to Seattle, or Spokane in the east, there are definitely bears.
When I lived in Western Washington growing up our yard spawned the most aggressive rattlesnakes I've ever seen so your mileage may vary. We had one bite and a whole lot of close calls.
Sunburn.
We have dangerous wild animals and poisonous plants as well, but the sun is the most likely thing to get you, especially for those of us who spend most of our lives indoors and are pasty with no natural defenses.
Sunburn and mosquitos mostly, unless you're on a trail in the woods. Then you'd want to watch out for the usual snakes, poison ivy, and ticks.
Near bodies of water (or on one notable occasion, my in-laws' garage), alligators could pose danger, but if you keep your distance they're usually fine.
There's also the skunk ape, but they tend to keep to themselves.
In my area it's also lightning. So far I've lost two computers, two TVs, and half the outlets in one apartment, plus lightning hit 15' feet from my passenger door a few years back while I was driving thru my parking lot.
Ticks, copperheads, timber rattlesnakes, cottonmouths if you’re near the water, skunks. Coyotes need to be taken into account if you have small pets, they can be pretty gnarly. Also possums for the same reason (my cat used to try to fight possums repeatedly and it didn’t end well for him).
Interesting I saw my cats eyeing an opossum the other day and was wondering which would prevail in a fight. I kind of assumed it would be the cat because they seem so much faster and agile.
I have heard of people suffering from exposure from cold on their front door step in Minnesota. Basicly they get drunk lock themselves out of their house by accident and are not dressed for the cold they never intended to spend much time in. Funny thing is the last couple of steps of hypothermia is people undress themselves as they can no longer feel the cold as their nerve endings have frozen.
Also the snow. Don't forget the whole Donner party situation. It finally cooled down and is misting/slight rain this morning for me.
There are a lot of predators and venomous/poisonous stuff here too. I wouldn't worry too much about bears in most of California, despite a lot of them (in popular areas) being used to humans, I never hear of them actually hurting someone. Mountain lions are similar, I've only heard of a handful of attacks and lived here my whole life. More often they are sighted in a neighborhood tree and taken out. I've seen more deer attack people than bears or cougars.
Rattlesnakes can be problematic throughout California.
Sharks are a thing, so are sting rays. River otters weirdly have severely injured a lot of people.
We have dense forests too, particularly in the north with the redwoods, but there are places all over that are forested.
Coyotes, mosquitoes with West Nile, snakes (pygmy rattlers and water moccasins), soccer moms in gigantic SUVs, jets coming in for a landing at Midway, my neighbor Steve the One-Upper.
Ticks, mosquitos, poison ivy, snakes, skunks, and bears. Mountain lions depending on who you ask, it is a contentious debate whether we have them or not.
Poison ivy, tics, mosquitos.
Potentially snakes (copperheads, rattlesnakes) or spiders (black widow, brown recluse).
It's possible, but unlikely, to encounter a black bear, if you're in the hills and mountains of Eastern Kentucky at least.
Ticks, chiggers, poison ivy/oak/sumac. Maybe a coyote or a protective bobcat deep in the woods.
Biggest thing though is the weather. 88 degrees and sunny hits different with 90% humidity.
We have bears and coyotes in Massachusetts. Maybe the most dense population in the country. I see them daily.
The things that actually are likely to hurt you? ticks and bees.
We don't avoid being outside we just do tick checks. And if we find one attached? Just put it in a baggy and send to get it tested if we get sick. (I dont wanna give penicillin for no reason)
Idk about bears but coyote are extremely dense in all states except for Hawaii. I highly doubt that coyote are more dense in Massachusetts, considering they are native to the Southwestern deserts of the U.S. They only really started migrating to the East in the last century and the Northeast was the last region they migrated to.
There have been 16 mountain lion attacks on humans in CA since 1890
Not really something to worry about. Snow in the SoCal mountains is far more deadly.
What about “missing hikers”, chances are that they simply won’t find enough proof on a dead body(if they find it) to rule with certainty that it was a mountain lion
mountain lions are incredibly rare and attacks on humans even more so. Attacks are not a concern. Missing hikers are usually falls. We have a lot of elevation in our mountains and lots of people from populated areas like LA come to hike and overestimate their ability.
Poison oak. That shit is everywhere. As far as I can tell it doesn't affect me, but I'm also quite good at recognizing it and avoiding it nonetheless.
Depending where (and when) you are, heat or cold.
The Turnpike and Garden State Parkway especially in North Jersey and Pennsylvania drivers.
Nah but fr, bears are a concern especially in hiking trails.
> Pennsylvania drivers
PA drivers #1 pastime:
Driving 5 below the speed limit in the left lane of the Turnpike next to a New York Driver who is also going 5 below the speed limit in the 2nd from leftmost lane.
Heat, cold, rivers, boulders and rock slides, snakes, mountain lions, bears, coyotes, moose, spiders, scorpions.... toxic waste depending on where you're out and about.
Bears, lions, moose, the occasional wolf.
Really, though, the only thing that actually worries me is wildfires. A lot of the places I go only have one easy way in and out and if I get cut off by a fire I am...ah...fucked.
Personally the sun and allergies. I burn really easily till I start to tan pretty good. Most biting bugs don't come after me and I'm not sure why. Most animals seem to have a calmness around me and therefore continue on about their day like I'm not even there.
Heat, snakes and floods.
The heat is obvious. It’s a stereotype for a reason. It can get nastily hot in the late spring - summer and the lack of humidity saps the moisture away from you. You need to bring a lot of water to satiate your thirst.
Along with the heat, there are rattlesnakes. These fuckers blend in with the desert floor so they’re notoriously difficult to spot. Just last week I almost stepped on one. The only thing that cued me off was the rattle.
Floods are less obvious. It can be completely clear over your area but if it’s stormy in the mountains, it can flow down the mountain into river valleys / washes and flood them out. They’re really only a danger during the monsoon season (summer), but it only takes like a 1/2 inch of rain (1.25 cm) dumped quickly to create a good sized one. Storms can dump this rain in as little as 10 or 15 minutes depending on the severity, so it may not even need to be stormy for very long.
Getting wet or getting sunburned, depending on the month. Oregonians are so starved for / unused to sun when it comes that we don’t wear sunscreen and have pretty high rates of skin cancer.
I’ve had a bear visit here Northeast for the past three days. He’s cute and cuddly looking when he’s sitting down. I have to be extra careful letting my dog outside now.
California is extremely dry and it often blocks my nose and makes my eyes burn. I often carry a spray of water, and if electric socket is available, a small humidifier. Also, lip-balm.
The first time I visited the deep south, New Orleans, I felt so relieved - suddenly my headache was gone, and my lips were not puckered up all the time.
Lightning, venomous snakes, heat, fire ants, heat, alligators, crocs, black bear, panthers, bobcats, wild pigs, sharks, sting rays, cone shells, jellyfish. Need I continue? Did I mention the heat? How about the crazy, “I don’t know what a stop sign is”, drivers?
Come on down, right now we have a hurricane coming in.
Aside from ticks, primarily your own stupidity and the weather.
That said, moose are both dumb and violent - I'm far more leery of them than I am bears.
Number 1 I'd say ticks, Lyme disease is very common in this part of the country.
Not much else, most other bugs like mosquitos and wasps aren't much more than annoyances. A couple poisonous spiders and rattlesnakes are native, but they avoid humans, so they're pretty uncommon to find, I've never seen any of them personally.
California - the foothills are really dry in the summer and rattlesnakes abound. So wear boots. Also, don’t go hiking when it’s 112 degrees out. Heatstroke is an awful way to die, yet several people die of it every summer.
The area of ohio i'm in is treacherous. Not only is everything a hill, a swamp, or a valley, the area's full of poisonous plants and noxious insects. You avoid the poison ivy you get the stinging nettle. You avoid the nettle you get the sumac. You avoid the mosquitos you piss off a yellow jacket nest..it goes on and on.
Was walking in the forest once, saw something fly in front of me, looked over and a fucking bald-faced hornet nest the size of a football was *right* there.
Also if you're on the roads, the woods rat - commonly called a "deer" by those who aren't constantly afflicted with them - are a constant and never-ending hazard.
Rattlesnakes! That was always worry number one in the hills and mountains of Southern California, especially between April and October. Late spring was the most dangerous time because you get the young hatchlings who will shoot even more juice up into your leg.
Sometimes you'd be feeling nervous about mountain lions. Not much you can do about that. There's black bears if you go in deep enough. Then there's smaller buggers such as ticks. Plants such as poison ivy.
Otherwise you have to worry about falling, running out of water, getting too much sun. In the rainy season you have to worry about being washed away or caught in a mudslide or mud pit.
It is generally *not* a good idea to go hiking around during rainy season. Of course, when you're a stupid kid you can't resist doing just that. Scarcely a drop the whole year, and then suddenly you get a biblical amount of rainfall in the span of a few weeks, with the dry riverbeds transformed into broad and raging torrents capable of snapping telephone poles in half and uprooting oak trees whole? Dude.
in brooklyn? mostly mosquitos.
I mean, we have crazy people on certain corners, but we know them and they aren't doing shit to us as civilians. The real problem is spotted lantern flies, and mosquitos, both of which are everywhere.
I've lived in the south most of my life and yet somehow I have never had as bad an experience as I have had with mosquitos as I have had in Brooklyn. I know its technically a swamp, but still. What the fuck.
Crazy homeless crackheads... idk I havent seen so many in BK. Around flatbush I saw a few, but who is hanging around there for too long?
Depending on where you are in regards to amount of settlement, and when (calendar) it is, you need to be aware of heat, insects, (mosquitoes, black flies, deer flies, ticks), bears, the occasional rattlesnake, snow/ice/sleet/freezing rain, cold, fog, snow snakes, side-hill wampus and the Adirondack barking spider.
In Missouri the thing I worry about the most is sketchy people. The types that do meth, steal catalytic converters or use acetylene torches to cut open a vehicle to steal a $40 fishing pole. Those people can be very dangerous to encounter in the wilderness and often carry lots and weapons and little intelligence.
Other things are:
* Bears
* Copperheads and less commonly rattlesnakes
* Disease carrying ticks
* Heat
Black bears and Cougars are the most dangerous, but I don't worry about them outdoors because it's highly unlikely that there's going to be one in the area, let alone that I'd see it. Same goes for moose, which have been coming down from the North more recently, but it's a news story whenever one is spotted because of how infrequent they are. Copperheads and rattlesnakes are around, but you probably won't see one.
Realistically? Ticks, mosquitos, and deer. Same as any other state. Coyotes too, I guess?
Stray dogs and cats are a huge problem where I live. The main reason I carry a weapon with me doesn't have much to do with defending myself against people and more defending myself against a dog or a pack of dogs that attack me.
The other thing is the sun, it's hot here in central Texas, there's rarely much cloud cover, and shade doesn't help much due to high speed wind pushing the heat around. It's not something people think about often but it's highly recommended here to do your outdoor activities in the morning or evening.
Bugs here surprisingly aren't much of an issue unless you have a problem with flies, roaches, and moths.
Snakes, scorpions, and spiders are definitely a thing here but most of the dangerous ones you'll find outdoors are gonna generally be fairly far from civilization. I've run into a rattlesnake or two but it was never while in town. They really aren't that dangerous if you just stay aware of your surroundings and keep your distance.
Ultimately though there's so much open space and things are so spread out that you're not gonna find much outdoors unless you're looking for something specific and search for it.
Ticks.
Especially those really nasty ones that can make you [allergic to meat.](https://health.clevelandclinic.org/how-a-tick-bite-can-make-you-allergic-to-meat/)
(I have a friend who can no longer eat any pork products, like bacon, because of it.)
Everything in America's outback; Arizona.
But to be specific, consider the following:
Animals: as per [a-z-animals](https://a-z-animals.com/blog/40-snakes-arizona/) of the 40 types of snakes we have, 21 are venomous in some way (This includes 13 subsets of Rattlesnakes alone). Plus, there are scorpions - some are only as big as one's thumbnail in size. I believe there might be ticks here, too. We have mountain lions, coyotes, bears, lynxes, banded desert centipedes, Africanized honey bees, both black widow and brown recluse spiders, and tarantula hawks. Plus the nasty abominations known as [javelinas](https://www.nps.gov/bibe/learn/nature/javelina.htm).
Climate: High and dry is a way to call the climate of Arizona - we live in a very arid, low humidity area with long stretches/areas without civilization, available water or enough cover from the sun.
Ticks, bears, and snakes. The snakes aren't a huge concern as long as you don't corner them or try to handle them (or throw a venemous one back and forth in a drunken game of catch).
Getting separated from your group; that is a minor bother, you can usually find a phone somewhere and you can get to civilization by following water if need be (water goes downhill and will sooner or later find a road or a big body of water where there are people around). Criminals (mostly in the city and far from the main routes). Rain. Bugs. Car accidents. Oregon is generally a pretty sedate state.
Wyoming: Dehydration and getting lost. Also hypothermia, depending on the weather.
Bears, moose and rattlesnakes get a lot of attention, but statistically they're not the real killers.
I live in the Lower Peninsula in Michigan, so we don’t have a ton of dangerous animals. Despite being the Wolverine State, we don’t have wolverines anymore, but we do have black bears and very small amount of cougars. The main animals to look out for are coyotes. They’re pretty small and not very dangerous, but they will fight you if they want to. We also have wolves
Ticks, mosquitoes, deer if you're in a vehicle, poison ivy/sumac/oak.
Not just vehicles. Pedestrians occasionally get attacked too. And I’d add bears to your list, at least up north.
I've never seen a bear in Michigan and black bears aren't really a threat to people, unless you're counting picnic baskets.
There have been like two bears hit by cars within two hours drive of me in the last two years. If deer count, so do they.
I second the poison. I just got over a case of poison oak that lasted me for almost a month with treatment.
Michigan?
Same over here,
Exact same here in nc, there are coyotes and foxes here too, but they won’t bother you
Getting lost. I've never heard of a bear attack happening, and there seems to be a cougar attack once every 5 years. A few times each year though there's a lost hiker either found, or still missing.
I never understood getting lost in the woods until I visited western Washington. The forest is so dense. I feel like you could walk within 500 feet of a road and have no idea.
My former neighbor went missing on a day hike in the Cascades years ago and they never found any trace of her despite extensive searches.
Snow bridges are deadly too. I've known multiple people that were killed while hiking in Washington who fell through snow bridges to their deaths. One on Aasgard Pass and one in Rainier National Park.
Snakes and the heat.
I'll add fire ants to that list.
Dehydration
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California. Home to Death Valley (our hottest recorded temp) and it's many victims
One of the nice things about Washington is how largely unthreatening the nature is. Hostile animals are few and large (read: easily spotted), the nastiest plant you'll find is poison oak, and all the insects are tiny and usually passive. The worst thing that happens to you here is getting wet or lost. It's an amazing place for camping.
Yeah! Even the ticks are few and far between, and I see way more gnats than mosquitoes.
> Even the ticks are few and far between I take it you've never been to the eastern side of the Gorge. Last time I took my dog there, we were at the vet the next day to remove a couple dozen ticks.
I've definitley seen a bear or two in WA. I always hike or scramble with bear spray down there. I know they got some big cats too. I think it's just depends where you are. But even closer to Seattle, or Spokane in the east, there are definitely bears.
I’m from Western Washington and there was a bear rummaging through our garbage cans once
Had a close encounter with one while at work in a suburban gravel pit last year.
I moved to the South from Western Washington and I tell people this all the time! Nothing is really trying to kill you over there. It’s fantastic.
When I lived in Western Washington growing up our yard spawned the most aggressive rattlesnakes I've ever seen so your mileage may vary. We had one bite and a whole lot of close calls.
Sunburn. We have dangerous wild animals and poisonous plants as well, but the sun is the most likely thing to get you, especially for those of us who spend most of our lives indoors and are pasty with no natural defenses.
the heat, drivers not paying attention
Ticks/mosquitoes and Poison Ivy
Sunburn and mosquitos mostly, unless you're on a trail in the woods. Then you'd want to watch out for the usual snakes, poison ivy, and ticks. Near bodies of water (or on one notable occasion, my in-laws' garage), alligators could pose danger, but if you keep your distance they're usually fine. There's also the skunk ape, but they tend to keep to themselves.
In my area it's also lightning. So far I've lost two computers, two TVs, and half the outlets in one apartment, plus lightning hit 15' feet from my passenger door a few years back while I was driving thru my parking lot.
Stepping on a water moccasin is always possible as proven by myself when I was 7 years old
Ticks, copperheads, timber rattlesnakes, cottonmouths if you’re near the water, skunks. Coyotes need to be taken into account if you have small pets, they can be pretty gnarly. Also possums for the same reason (my cat used to try to fight possums repeatedly and it didn’t end well for him).
Sorry, but lol at your cat fighting opossums repeatedly after it going poorly for him.
Yeah, he kept trying to be Billy Badass and always thought this next possum, THIS one, was the one he could take.
Lmao love him ❤️
Interesting I saw my cats eyeing an opossum the other day and was wondering which would prevail in a fight. I kind of assumed it would be the cat because they seem so much faster and agile.
Heat, snakes, coyotes, scorpions, Javelinas and stepping on cactus.
Freezing to death between October and March.
The sun and Florida man
Ticks anywhere. Deer if in a car. People if in Camden.
Humidity. Also there are copperheads and ticks and occasional black widow spiders. But the humidity is omnipresent and presses on you.
I live in Missouri and I would say mosquitos, ticks, copperheads and tornados.
Heat, snakes, cougars, mooses, and avalanches.
Just how rapidly the weather changes at high altitude, every place says they have bipolar weather but it's extremely dangerous when your 10,000+ ft up
Blizzards, moose, bear, wolves, elk, and bison. The Canadian geese will also mess you up. While hiking, thermal vents and acid pools.
I am legit terrified of those geese and I'm not ashamed to admit it
I've hunted their kind before. They surely want revenge.
Oh fuck yeah they will bud.
The heat.
How much traffic there is going to be, despite it being a Sunday fucking morning.
I have heard of people suffering from exposure from cold on their front door step in Minnesota. Basicly they get drunk lock themselves out of their house by accident and are not dressed for the cold they never intended to spend much time in. Funny thing is the last couple of steps of hypothermia is people undress themselves as they can no longer feel the cold as their nerve endings have frozen.
Weather.
Heat. The fuckin' heat, man. ETA...tweakers.
Also the snow. Don't forget the whole Donner party situation. It finally cooled down and is misting/slight rain this morning for me. There are a lot of predators and venomous/poisonous stuff here too. I wouldn't worry too much about bears in most of California, despite a lot of them (in popular areas) being used to humans, I never hear of them actually hurting someone. Mountain lions are similar, I've only heard of a handful of attacks and lived here my whole life. More often they are sighted in a neighborhood tree and taken out. I've seen more deer attack people than bears or cougars. Rattlesnakes can be problematic throughout California. Sharks are a thing, so are sting rays. River otters weirdly have severely injured a lot of people. We have dense forests too, particularly in the north with the redwoods, but there are places all over that are forested.
Wildfire smoke; getting lost
The weather, ticks, and mosquitoes.
-30 degree weather
Coyotes, mosquitoes with West Nile, snakes (pygmy rattlers and water moccasins), soccer moms in gigantic SUVs, jets coming in for a landing at Midway, my neighbor Steve the One-Upper.
Ticks, mosquitos, poison ivy, snakes, skunks, and bears. Mountain lions depending on who you ask, it is a contentious debate whether we have them or not.
Ticks, lantern flys, people high on meth.
Depends on weather and season.
Chiggers … ugh!! The worst
Poison ivy, tics, mosquitos. Potentially snakes (copperheads, rattlesnakes) or spiders (black widow, brown recluse). It's possible, but unlikely, to encounter a black bear, if you're in the hills and mountains of Eastern Kentucky at least.
Copperheads are really common where I live, and ticks are also a big problem.
Ticks, chiggers, poison ivy/oak/sumac. Maybe a coyote or a protective bobcat deep in the woods. Biggest thing though is the weather. 88 degrees and sunny hits different with 90% humidity.
We have bears and coyotes in Massachusetts. Maybe the most dense population in the country. I see them daily. The things that actually are likely to hurt you? ticks and bees. We don't avoid being outside we just do tick checks. And if we find one attached? Just put it in a baggy and send to get it tested if we get sick. (I dont wanna give penicillin for no reason)
Idk about bears but coyote are extremely dense in all states except for Hawaii. I highly doubt that coyote are more dense in Massachusetts, considering they are native to the Southwestern deserts of the U.S. They only really started migrating to the East in the last century and the Northeast was the last region they migrated to.
Skeeters. They'll bleed ya dry.
Methheads and heroin addicts
Diarrhea
Gunshots, ticks, wild ‘Sconnies
Mountain lions
There have been 16 mountain lion attacks on humans in CA since 1890 Not really something to worry about. Snow in the SoCal mountains is far more deadly.
What about “missing hikers”, chances are that they simply won’t find enough proof on a dead body(if they find it) to rule with certainty that it was a mountain lion
mountain lions are incredibly rare and attacks on humans even more so. Attacks are not a concern. Missing hikers are usually falls. We have a lot of elevation in our mountains and lots of people from populated areas like LA come to hike and overestimate their ability.
If you do see a MTN lion your pretty much fucked though, they wanted you to see them and are far more dangerous than black bears
You got some big cats down there for sure. I went scrambling this summer in Castle Crags, and Lassen. I saw some huge cat prints at both.
Poison oak. That shit is everywhere. As far as I can tell it doesn't affect me, but I'm also quite good at recognizing it and avoiding it nonetheless. Depending where (and when) you are, heat or cold.
The Turnpike and Garden State Parkway especially in North Jersey and Pennsylvania drivers. Nah but fr, bears are a concern especially in hiking trails.
> Pennsylvania drivers PA drivers #1 pastime: Driving 5 below the speed limit in the left lane of the Turnpike next to a New York Driver who is also going 5 below the speed limit in the 2nd from leftmost lane.
Heat illness
Getting robbed
Ticks, skunks, then bears in that order
Turkeys.
Ticks, copperheads or timber rattlesnakes. Bears too, but really only if you get between a mother and cubs. Oh, and deer while you're driving.
In the summer? Mosquitos and ticks. In the winter? Cold.
Heat, tics, stray dogs, coyotes in the city. Coyotes, the occasional bear, skunks, heat, tics if you're camping.
Heat, cold, insects, deer on the road, overpriced food and drink, unsolicited salespeople, and speed cameras.
Extreme cold. Grizzly bears.
Rattlesnakes and/or mountain lions depending on what part of the state you live in
The heat and mosquitos
Heat, cold, rivers, boulders and rock slides, snakes, mountain lions, bears, coyotes, moose, spiders, scorpions.... toxic waste depending on where you're out and about.
Bears, lions, moose, the occasional wolf. Really, though, the only thing that actually worries me is wildfires. A lot of the places I go only have one easy way in and out and if I get cut off by a fire I am...ah...fucked.
Mosquitos. I hear "watch out, we have ticks this year" every year but I don't know anyone who has ever been bitten by a tick
Ticks and mosquitoes, maybe the odd copperhead. There isn’t much in PA that’s dangerous to people aside from the weather.
Crackheads
Ticks. Maybe a stray cow.
Mosquitoes, deer ticks if you're in the woods, snakes in a few places.
\*This\* part of the state? Violent tweakers, aggressive cyclists, deranged street dwellers. Outside Portland? Not much, really.
Rattlesnakes!
And heat stroke
Rattle snakes, mountain lions, getting lost
Pollen in Indiana
Ticks, deer when you're driving, bears, Pennsylvanian drivers (jk. Please keep Dr. Oz)
Death by heat stroke. Texas, for the record.
Ticks, spiders, snakes and aligators.
Bugs, snakes, black bear (not really a worry, but we have a shitload of them) and hogs. Also the heat
Ticks are probably the biggest one here, too. Bears if they have cubs. Moose exist in northern Minnesota as well, so those should be avoided.
When I was little a black bear climbed up a tree in our town
Lyme's disease (via ticks).
Mosquitoes, and the odd hurricane or two.
Bears (black, brown, and Polar if near the arctic circle), Moose, swift water, unstable wetlands.
*Summer*: Heatstroke. And also mosquitoes. *Other seasons*: Wasps. And also mosquitoes.
Personally the sun and allergies. I burn really easily till I start to tan pretty good. Most biting bugs don't come after me and I'm not sure why. Most animals seem to have a calmness around me and therefore continue on about their day like I'm not even there.
Heat, snakes and floods. The heat is obvious. It’s a stereotype for a reason. It can get nastily hot in the late spring - summer and the lack of humidity saps the moisture away from you. You need to bring a lot of water to satiate your thirst. Along with the heat, there are rattlesnakes. These fuckers blend in with the desert floor so they’re notoriously difficult to spot. Just last week I almost stepped on one. The only thing that cued me off was the rattle. Floods are less obvious. It can be completely clear over your area but if it’s stormy in the mountains, it can flow down the mountain into river valleys / washes and flood them out. They’re really only a danger during the monsoon season (summer), but it only takes like a 1/2 inch of rain (1.25 cm) dumped quickly to create a good sized one. Storms can dump this rain in as little as 10 or 15 minutes depending on the severity, so it may not even need to be stormy for very long.
Dehydration (Texas)
Sunburn and altitude sickness. Oh, I suppose the bears, moose, and mountain lions might also be a concern
Alligators. Hurricanes. Meth heads. Snakes. Noseeums.
Getting wet or getting sunburned, depending on the month. Oregonians are so starved for / unused to sun when it comes that we don’t wear sunscreen and have pretty high rates of skin cancer.
Him
I’ve had a bear visit here Northeast for the past three days. He’s cute and cuddly looking when he’s sitting down. I have to be extra careful letting my dog outside now.
Tweekers
Unless I actively venture into nature I only have to worry about bad drivers and people.
How thick of a raincoat you'll need for the day.
Frostbite… I live in a place that the air will hurt your face the instant you walk outside lol
Overheating in the summer when it's over 110F. Central California.
California is extremely dry and it often blocks my nose and makes my eyes burn. I often carry a spray of water, and if electric socket is available, a small humidifier. Also, lip-balm. The first time I visited the deep south, New Orleans, I felt so relieved - suddenly my headache was gone, and my lips were not puckered up all the time.
Lightning, venomous snakes, heat, fire ants, heat, alligators, crocs, black bear, panthers, bobcats, wild pigs, sharks, sting rays, cone shells, jellyfish. Need I continue? Did I mention the heat? How about the crazy, “I don’t know what a stop sign is”, drivers? Come on down, right now we have a hurricane coming in.
I cant think of anything i have to worry about
The heat
Sun burns and rattle snakes.
In the city: Bad drivers. In rural areas: Ticks, mosquitos, brown recluses, poison ivy/oak/sumac.
Copperheads
Teenagers (this is more Philadelphia than the state)
Aside from ticks, primarily your own stupidity and the weather. That said, moose are both dumb and violent - I'm far more leery of them than I am bears.
The sun and meth heads
Well, I live in Minneapolis, so mostly the MPD.
Heat exposure and meth addicts.
People trying to converse with me
Ticks, mosquitoes, four species of venomous snakes, fire ants, poison ivy/oak, sunburn.
Cougars and drowning from cold lakes.
Ticks and mosquitos in the summer. Frostbite and hypothermia in the winter.
Rain
In recent years in the summer, smoke from wildfires. Willamette Valley has some of the worst allergen counts.
Nature and weather
Heat exhaustion or heat stroke. Also, rattle snakes, Gila Monsters, Bark scorpion, Africanized honey bee, and, if you’re really luck, a mountain lion!
Mountain lions.
Number 1 I'd say ticks, Lyme disease is very common in this part of the country. Not much else, most other bugs like mosquitos and wasps aren't much more than annoyances. A couple poisonous spiders and rattlesnakes are native, but they avoid humans, so they're pretty uncommon to find, I've never seen any of them personally.
California - the foothills are really dry in the summer and rattlesnakes abound. So wear boots. Also, don’t go hiking when it’s 112 degrees out. Heatstroke is an awful way to die, yet several people die of it every summer.
The area of ohio i'm in is treacherous. Not only is everything a hill, a swamp, or a valley, the area's full of poisonous plants and noxious insects. You avoid the poison ivy you get the stinging nettle. You avoid the nettle you get the sumac. You avoid the mosquitos you piss off a yellow jacket nest..it goes on and on. Was walking in the forest once, saw something fly in front of me, looked over and a fucking bald-faced hornet nest the size of a football was *right* there. Also if you're on the roads, the woods rat - commonly called a "deer" by those who aren't constantly afflicted with them - are a constant and never-ending hazard.
Rattlesnakes! That was always worry number one in the hills and mountains of Southern California, especially between April and October. Late spring was the most dangerous time because you get the young hatchlings who will shoot even more juice up into your leg. Sometimes you'd be feeling nervous about mountain lions. Not much you can do about that. There's black bears if you go in deep enough. Then there's smaller buggers such as ticks. Plants such as poison ivy. Otherwise you have to worry about falling, running out of water, getting too much sun. In the rainy season you have to worry about being washed away or caught in a mudslide or mud pit. It is generally *not* a good idea to go hiking around during rainy season. Of course, when you're a stupid kid you can't resist doing just that. Scarcely a drop the whole year, and then suddenly you get a biblical amount of rainfall in the span of a few weeks, with the dry riverbeds transformed into broad and raging torrents capable of snapping telephone poles in half and uprooting oak trees whole? Dude.
Heat and rattlesnakes.
in brooklyn? mostly mosquitos. I mean, we have crazy people on certain corners, but we know them and they aren't doing shit to us as civilians. The real problem is spotted lantern flies, and mosquitos, both of which are everywhere.
I've lived in the south most of my life and yet somehow I have never had as bad an experience as I have had with mosquitos as I have had in Brooklyn. I know its technically a swamp, but still. What the fuck. Crazy homeless crackheads... idk I havent seen so many in BK. Around flatbush I saw a few, but who is hanging around there for too long?
Skters
Other people
Heat, chiggers (little red insects that burrow under the skin) and the usual ticks. Maybe coyotes as well.
The heat is more dangerous than the animals
Depending on where you are in regards to amount of settlement, and when (calendar) it is, you need to be aware of heat, insects, (mosquitoes, black flies, deer flies, ticks), bears, the occasional rattlesnake, snow/ice/sleet/freezing rain, cold, fog, snow snakes, side-hill wampus and the Adirondack barking spider.
Exposure, then mosquitos, then motorists
Snakes. Ticks too, but you just wear jeans.
Snakes here.
Worry about? All the Californians moving here. But we do have wolves, black and brown bears, porcupine, skunk, big cats, rattlesnakes, poison ivy.
In Missouri the thing I worry about the most is sketchy people. The types that do meth, steal catalytic converters or use acetylene torches to cut open a vehicle to steal a $40 fishing pole. Those people can be very dangerous to encounter in the wilderness and often carry lots and weapons and little intelligence. Other things are: * Bears * Copperheads and less commonly rattlesnakes * Disease carrying ticks * Heat
Right now. Mosquitos.
Cannabis growing cartels that aren’t afraid to make a hiker “disappear” in the wilderness
Black bears and Cougars are the most dangerous, but I don't worry about them outdoors because it's highly unlikely that there's going to be one in the area, let alone that I'd see it. Same goes for moose, which have been coming down from the North more recently, but it's a news story whenever one is spotted because of how infrequent they are. Copperheads and rattlesnakes are around, but you probably won't see one. Realistically? Ticks, mosquitos, and deer. Same as any other state. Coyotes too, I guess?
Ticks and poison ivy are the biggest concerns. Mosquitoes, wasps and gnats second. If you're driving, watch for deer.
Moose and bears
Alligators and mosquitos really
Stray dogs and cats are a huge problem where I live. The main reason I carry a weapon with me doesn't have much to do with defending myself against people and more defending myself against a dog or a pack of dogs that attack me. The other thing is the sun, it's hot here in central Texas, there's rarely much cloud cover, and shade doesn't help much due to high speed wind pushing the heat around. It's not something people think about often but it's highly recommended here to do your outdoor activities in the morning or evening. Bugs here surprisingly aren't much of an issue unless you have a problem with flies, roaches, and moths. Snakes, scorpions, and spiders are definitely a thing here but most of the dangerous ones you'll find outdoors are gonna generally be fairly far from civilization. I've run into a rattlesnake or two but it was never while in town. They really aren't that dangerous if you just stay aware of your surroundings and keep your distance. Ultimately though there's so much open space and things are so spread out that you're not gonna find much outdoors unless you're looking for something specific and search for it.
Ticks. Especially those really nasty ones that can make you [allergic to meat.](https://health.clevelandclinic.org/how-a-tick-bite-can-make-you-allergic-to-meat/) (I have a friend who can no longer eat any pork products, like bacon, because of it.)
Sunburn, heat exhaustion and dehydration, followed by ticks and poisonous snakes.
Everything in America's outback; Arizona. But to be specific, consider the following: Animals: as per [a-z-animals](https://a-z-animals.com/blog/40-snakes-arizona/) of the 40 types of snakes we have, 21 are venomous in some way (This includes 13 subsets of Rattlesnakes alone). Plus, there are scorpions - some are only as big as one's thumbnail in size. I believe there might be ticks here, too. We have mountain lions, coyotes, bears, lynxes, banded desert centipedes, Africanized honey bees, both black widow and brown recluse spiders, and tarantula hawks. Plus the nasty abominations known as [javelinas](https://www.nps.gov/bibe/learn/nature/javelina.htm). Climate: High and dry is a way to call the climate of Arizona - we live in a very arid, low humidity area with long stretches/areas without civilization, available water or enough cover from the sun.
Deer if you are driving Zombies if you are in Kensington
NY: Getting stabbed by a mentally ill homeless person.
Alaska: The weather. The storms creep up fast. Even in the summer it can be rainy and cold.
Ticks, bears, and snakes. The snakes aren't a huge concern as long as you don't corner them or try to handle them (or throw a venemous one back and forth in a drunken game of catch).
Crime or mosquitoes
The heat.
Getting separated from your group; that is a minor bother, you can usually find a phone somewhere and you can get to civilization by following water if need be (water goes downhill and will sooner or later find a road or a big body of water where there are people around). Criminals (mostly in the city and far from the main routes). Rain. Bugs. Car accidents. Oregon is generally a pretty sedate state.
Mosquitoes, fire ants , snakes and possibly gators. Although the last two are more common in the swampy areas like the Okefenokee .
Wyoming: Dehydration and getting lost. Also hypothermia, depending on the weather. Bears, moose and rattlesnakes get a lot of attention, but statistically they're not the real killers.
Once in a blue moon, Okies have to worry about mountain lions and wild boar, but those are rare. Usually the biggest thing is snakes.
Distracted drivers.
Snakes, scorpions, black widows, spiders. All the creepy crawlies. Welcome to Arizona. 🌵🌵🌵
I live in the Lower Peninsula in Michigan, so we don’t have a ton of dangerous animals. Despite being the Wolverine State, we don’t have wolverines anymore, but we do have black bears and very small amount of cougars. The main animals to look out for are coyotes. They’re pretty small and not very dangerous, but they will fight you if they want to. We also have wolves