5. Mississippi
Venomous snakes count: 10
All of the mentioned kinds of venomous snakes (including rattlesnakes, cottonmouths, copperheads and the coral snake) are found in Mississippi, making it one of the states with most venomous snakes in America. Perhaps the most feared of those are cottonmouths, which dwell around rivers, and are often mistaken for common non-venomous water snakes. Mississippi’s venomous snakes are: southern copperhead, western cottonmouth, eastern cottonmouth, canebrake rattlesnake, timber rattlesnake, Carolina pygmy rattlesnake, dusky pygmy rattlesnake, eastern diamondback rattlesnake, western pygmy rattlesnake and eastern coral snake.
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