Around Arizona
Conditions vary across the state. Choose your city below, then describe what’s happening around your home or business.
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Local mole information
Mole control in Arizona
Learn what to look for around your property, explore your city, and ask about an inspection or a quote.
Moles in Arizona: what to know
What to note
Where you see moles, 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
Moles in Arizona: what the public record shows
Before you compare quotes, it helps to know which moles actually live in Arizona, when they are busiest, and what the state figures look like. Everything below links to the agency or university page it came from.
Moles are not known to exist in Arizona
Moles in Arizona
University of Arizona Cooperative Extension says so directly while explaining what voles are mistaken for.
University of Arizona Cooperative ExtensionAt least three of the 23 U.S. vole species occur in Arizona
What is actually there
Voles are often misidentified as mice, pocket gophers or moles.
University of Arizona Cooperative ExtensionVole burrows have open entrances, are smaller than ground squirrel burrows, and are not plugged with soil like gopher burrows
Telling the burrows apart
Pocket gophers have large heads with muscular, clawed forelegs; mice have long tails.
University of Arizona Cooperative ExtensionArizona has no moles; tunneling in Arizona yards is voles, pocket gophers or ground squirrels.
Rules that apply in Arizona
For context, nationally
- 7 — Mole species in North America. Internet Center for Wildlife Damage Management
- Up to 150 feet — New tunnel per day. Virginia Cooperative Extension (Virginia Tech)
Sources: University of Arizona Cooperative Extension; Internet Center for Wildlife Damage Management; Virginia Cooperative Extension (Virginia Tech). Figures are quoted as the source prints them. How we check our sources
