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Lyme disease data tables

Reported cases of Lyme disease by state or locality, 2006-2016†

Information regarding the collection and limitations of these surveillance data

State 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016
Confirmed		 2016
Probable		 2016
Incidence*
Alabama 11 13 6 3 1 9 13 11 28  14 17 21 0.3
Alaska 3 10 6 7 7 9 4 14 5  1 6 9 0.8
Arizona 10 2 2 3 2 8 7 22 14  8 8 5 0.1
Arkansas 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0  0 0 2 0.0
California 85 75 74 117 126 79 61 90 54  83 90 44 0.2
Colorado 0 0 2 0 1 0 0 0 0  0 0 0 0.0
Connecticut 1788 3058 2738 2751 1964 2004 1653 2111 1719  1873 1238 510 34.6
Delaware 482 715 772 984 656 767 507 400 341  334 391 115 41.1
DC 62 116 71 53 34 N N 33 35  78 66 37 9.7
Florida 34 30 72 77 56 78 67 87 85  116 132 84 0.6
Georgia 8 11 35 40 10 32 31 8 4  8 4 0 0.0
Hawaii 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0  0 0 0 0.0
Idaho 7 9 5 4 6 3 0 14 8  3 9 8 0.5
Illinois 110 149 108 136 135 194 204 337 233  287 233 4 1.8
Indiana 26 55 42 61 62 81 64 101 100  102 127 25 1.9
Iowa 97 123 85 77 68 72 92 153 110  130 76 156 2.4
Kansas 4 8 16 18 7 11 9 18 12  11 16 23 0.6
Kentucky 7 6 5 1 5 3 8 17 11  12 16 17 0.4
Louisiana 1 2 3 0 2 1 3 0 0  2 4 3 0.1
Maine 338 529 780 791 559 801 885 1127 1169  993 1151 336 86.4
Maryland 1248 2576 1746 1466 1163 938 1113 801 957  1249 1274 592 21.2
Massachusetts 1432 2988 3960 4019 2380 1801 3396 3816 3646  2922 146 52 2.1
Michigan 55 51 76 81 76 89 80 114 93  125 159 62 1.6
Minnesota 914 1238 1046 1063 1293 1185 911 1431 896  1174 1304 822 23.6
Mississippi 3 1 1 0 0 3 1 0 2  4 1 0 0.0
Missouri 5 10 6 3 4 5 1 1 7  2 1 9 0.0
Montana 1 4 6 3 3 9 6 16 5  2 12 5 1.2
Nebraska 11 7 8 4 7 7 5 7 6  5 10 4 0.5
Nevada 4 15 9 10 2 3 10 11 4  5 4 11 0.1
New Hampshire 617 896 1211 996 830 887 1002 1324 622  436 691 200 51.8
New Jersey 2432 3134 3214 4598 3320 3398 2732 2785 2589  3932 3332 1018 37.3
New Mexico 3 5 4 1 3 2 1 0 0  0 0 1 0.0
New York 4460 4165 5741 4134 2385 3118 2044 3512 2853  3252 2623 1259 13.3
North Carolina 31 53 16 21 21 18 27 39 27  38 32 240 0.3
North Dakota 7 12 8 10 21 22 10 12 2  15 9 23 1.2
Ohio 43 33 40 51 21 36 49 74 94  112 122 38 1.1
Oklahoma 0 1 1 2 0 2 1 1 0  0 0 0 0.0
Oregon 7 6 18 12 7 9 5 12 3  3 13 48 0.3
Pennsylvania 3242 3994 3818 4950 3298 4739 4146 4981 6470  7351 8988 2455 70.3
Rhode Island 308 177 186 150 115 111 133 444 570  564 535 368 50.6
South Carolina 20 31 14 25 19 24 35 33 20  13 25 26 0.5
South Dakota 1 0 3 1 1 2 4 3 2  5 8 3 0.9
Tennessee 15 31 7 10 6 5 2 11 7  6 7 18 0.1
Texas 29 87 105 88 55 28 33 48 20  18 31 40 0.1
Utah 5 7 3 6 3 6 2 10 5  3 12 7 0.4
Vermont 105 138 330 323 271 476 386 674 442  491 488 273 78.1
Virginia 357 959 886 698 911 756 805 925 976  1102 976 374 11.6
Washington 8 12 22 15 12 17 13 11 8  17 14 17 0.2
West Virginia 28 84 120 143 128 107 82 116 112  243 297 71 16.2
Wisconsin 1466 1814 1493 1952 2505 2408 1368 1447 991  1309 1504 791 26.0
Wyoming 1 3 1 1 0 1 3 1 2  0 1 0 0.2
U.S. TOTAL 19,931 27,444 28,921 29,959 22,561 24,364 22,014 27,203 25,359  28,453 26,203 10,226 8.1
†confirmed cases presented for all years except most recent
*confirmed cases per 100,000 population
N = not notifiable

Lyme disease incidence rates by state, 2006-2016*

Information regarding the collection and limitations of these surveillance data

State 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 3-Year Average
Incidence
Alabama 0.2 0.3 0.1 0.1 0.0 0.2 0.3 0.2 0.6 0.3 0.3 0.4
Alaska 0.4 1.5 0.9 1.0 1.0 1.2 0.5 1.9 0.7 0.1 0.8 0.5
Arizona 0.2 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.1 0.1 0.3 0.2 0.1 0.1 0.1
Arkansas 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0
California 0.2 0.2 0.2 0.3 0.4 0.0 0.2 0.2 0.1 0.2 0.2 0.2
Colorado 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0
Connecticut† 51.0 87.3 78.2 78.2 55.0 56.0 46.0 58.7 47.8 52.2 34.6 44.9
Delaware† 56.5 82.7 88.4 111.2 73.1 84.6 55.3 43.2 36.4 35.3 41.1 37.6
District of Columbia 10.7 19.7 12.0 8.8 5.7 N N 5.1 5.3 11.6 9.7 8.9
Florida 0.2 0.2 0.4 0.4 0.3 0.4 0.3 0.4 0.4 0.6 0.6 0.5
Georgia 0.1 0.1 0.4 0.4 0.1 0.3 0.3 0.1 0.0 0.1 0.0 0.1
Hawaii 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0
Idaho 0.5 0.6 0.3 0.3 0.4 0.2 0.0 0.9 0.5 0.2 0.5 0.4
Illinois 0.9 1.2 0.8 1.1 1.1 1.5 1.6 2.6 1.8 2.2 1.8 2.0
Indiana 0.4 0.9 0.7 0.9 1.0 1.2 1.0 1.5 1.5 1.5 1.9 1.7
Iowa 3.3 4.1 2.8 2.6 2.2 2.4 3.0 5.0 3.5 4.2 2.4 3.4
Kansas 0.1 0.3 0.6 0.6 0.2 0.4 0.3 0.6 0.4 0.4 0.6 0.4
Kentucky 0.2 0.1 0.1 0.0 0.1 0.1 0.2 0.4 0.2 0.3 0.4 0.3
Louisiana 0.0 0.0 0.1 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.1 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.1 0.0
Maine† 25.6 40.2 59.2 60.0 42.1 60.3 66.6 84.8 87.9 74.7 86.4 83.0
Maryland† 22.2 45.8 31.0 25.7 20.1 16.1 18.9 13.5 16.0 20.8 21.2 19.3
Massachusetts† 22.2 46.3 60.9 61.0 36.3 27.3 51.1 57.0 54.1 43.0 2.1 33.1
Michigan 0.5 0.5 0.8 0.8 0.8 0.9 0.8 1.2 0.9 1.3 1.6 1.3
Minnesota† 17.7 23.8 20.0 20.2 24.4 22.2 16.9 26.4 16.4 21.4 23.6 20.5
Mississippi 0.1 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.1 0.0 0.0 0.1 0.1 0.0 0.1
Missouri 0.1 0.2 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.0 0.0 0.1 0.0 0.0 0.1
Montana 0.1 0.4 0.6 0.3 0.3 0.9 0.6 1.6 0.5 0.2 1.2 0.6
Nebraska 0.6 0.4 0.4 0.2 0.4 0.4 0.3 0.4 0.3 0.3 0.5 0.4
Nevada 0.2 0.6 0.3 0.4 0.1 0.1 0.4 0.4 0.1 0.2 0.1 0.1
New Hampshire† 46.9 68.1 92.0 75.2 63.0 67.3 75.9 100.0 46.9 32.8 51.8 43.8
New Jersey† 27.9 36.1 37.0 52.8 37.8 38.5 30.8 31.3 29.0 43.9 37.3 36.7
New Mexico 0.2 0.3 0.2 0.0 0.1 0.1 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0
New York† 23.1 21.6 29.5 21.2 12.3 16.0 10.4 17.9 14.4 16.4 13.3 14.7
North Carolina 0.4 0.6 0.2 0.2 0.2 0.2 0.3 0.4 0.3 0.4 0.3 0.3
North Dakota 1.1 1.9 1.2 1.5 3.1 3.2 1.4 1.7 0.3 2.0 1.2 1.1
Ohio 0.4 0.3 0.3 0.4 0.2 0.3 0.4 0.6 0.8 1.0 1.1 0.9
Oklahoma 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.1 0.0 0.1 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0
Oregon 0.2 0.2 0.5 0.3 0.2 0.2 0.1 0.3 0.1 0.1 0.3 0.2
Pennsylvania† 26.1 32.1 30.7 39.3 26.0 37.2 32.5 39.0 50.6 57.4 70.3 59.4
Rhode Island† 28.8 16.7 17.7 14.2 10.9 10.6 12.7 42.2 54.0 53.4 50.6 52.7
South Carolina 0.5 0.7 0.3 0.5 0.4 0.5 0.7 0.7 0.4 0.3 0.5 0.4
South Dakota 0.1 0.0 0.4 0.1 0.1 0.2 0.5 0.4 0.2 0.6 0.9 0.6
Tennessee 0.2 0.5 0.1 0.2 0.1 0.1 0.0 0.2 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.1
Texas 0.1 0.4 0.4 0.4 0.2 0.1 0.1 0.2 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.1
Utah 0.2 0.3 0.1 0.2 0.1 0.2 0.1 0.3 0.2 0.1 0.4 0.2
Vermont† 16.8 22.2 53.1 51.9 43.3 76.0 61.7 107.6 70.5 78.4 78.1 75.7
Virginia† 4.7 12.4 11.4 8.9 11.4 9.3 9.8 11.2 11.7 13.1 11.6 12.1
Washington 0.1 0.2 0.3 0.2 0.2 0.2 0.2 0.2 0.1 0.2 0.2 0.2
West Virginia† 1.5 4.6 6.6 7.9 6.9 5.8 4.4 6.3 6.1 13.2 16.2 11.8
Wisconsin† 26.4 32.4 26.5 34.5 44.0 42.2 23.9 25.2 17.2 22.7 26.0 22.0
Wyoming 0.2 0.6 0.2 0.2 0.0 0.2 0.5 0.2 0.3 0.0 0.2 0.2
U.S. Incidence 8.2 9.1 9.4 9.8 7.3 7.8 7.0 8.6 7.9 8.9 8.1 8.3
*incidence=confirmed cases per 100,000 persons
†High Incidence State (average incidence of at least 10 confirmed cases per 100,000 persons for previous three reporting years)
N= not notifiable
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