Local wildlife information

Wildlife control in South Carolina

Learn what to look for around your property, explore your city, and ask about an inspection or a quote.

Wildlife in South Carolina: what to know

Around South Carolina

Conditions vary across the state. Choose your city below, then describe what’s happening around your home or business.

What to note

Where you see wildlife, 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

Wildlife in South Carolina: what the public record shows

Before you compare quotes, it helps to know which wildlife actually live in South Carolina, when they are busiest, and what the state figures look like. Everything below links to the agency or university page it came from.

Not permitted in South Carolina

Relocation of raccoons

SCDNR states plainly that relocation is not permitted; captured animals are released on site or euthanised.

South Carolina Department of Natural Resources

Free permit from SCDNR to take nuisance furbearers outside the trapping season

Depredation permit

Needed outside the regular season or by anyone without a trapping licence.

South Carolina Department of Natural Resources

December 1 to March 1 for licensed trappers

Trapping season

Nuisance work outside this window runs on a depredation permit.

South Carolina Department of Natural Resources

Nuisance Wildlife species recorded in South Carolina

Raccoon (Procyon lotor) — Top terrestrial rabies vector in the East; relocation banned in most states.
Striped skunk (Mephitis mephitis) — Primary rabies reservoir in Texas and the central U.S.; Illinois requires euthanasia of trapped striped skunks.

When wildlife are busiest in South Carolina

Licensed trapping runs December 1 to March 1; nuisance work at other times requires a depredation permit.

Rules that apply in South Carolina

SCDNR Raccoons species information

For context, nationally

Around 4,000; more than 90% in wildlife — Animal rabies cases reported per year. CDC
More than 20% each — Skunks and foxes that expose people or pets and are rabid. CDC

Sources: South Carolina Department of Natural Resources; Rabies in the United States: Protecting Public Health; Class A (commercial) Nuisance Wildlife Control Permit study packet (17 Ill. Adm. Code 525). Figures are quoted as the source prints them. How we check our sources

Explore South Carolina cities

Aiken

Humid Subtropical · rural setting

Wildlife control in South Carolina

Wildlife in South Carolina: what to know

Around South Carolina

What to note

A useful next step

Wildlife in South Carolina: what the public record shows

Nuisance Wildlife species recorded in South Carolina

When wildlife are busiest in South Carolina

Rules that apply in South Carolina

For context, nationally

Explore South Carolina cities

Aiken

Anderson

Charleston

Columbia

Florence

Goose Creek

Greenville

Greer

Hilton Head Island

Mount Pleasant

Myrtle Beach

North Charleston

Rock Hill

Spartanburg

Summerville

Sumter

Taylors

Greenwood

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