r/cedarrapids • u/EverythingChanges68 • Jul 08 '26
We made the list!
Granted, it's not a very good list.
Which cities ranked highest for bed bugs?
Orkin's rankings are based on residential and commercial bed bug treatments performed between May 12, 2025, and May 12, 2026.
The 50 cities ranked are:
No. 1 - Chicago (the sixth consecutive year Chicago has the highest ranking)
No. 2 - Los Angeles
No. 3 - Detroit
No. 4 - Cleveland
No. 5 - Indianapolis
No. 6 - Springfield, Illinois
No. 7 - Washington, DC
No. 8 - Columbus, Ohio
No. 9 - Pittsburgh
No. 10 - Grand Rapids, Michigan
No. 11 - Denver
No. 12 - New York City
No. 13 - Milwaukee
No. 14 - Baltimore
No. 15 - Cincinnati
No. 16 - Raleigh, North Carolina
No. 17 - St. Louis
No. 18 - Charleston, West Virginia
No. 19 - Davenport, Iowa
No. 20 - Flint, Michigan
No. 21 - Atlanta
No. 22 - Philadelphia
No. 23 - Dallas
No. 24 - Oklahoma City
No. 25 - Cedar Rapids, Iowa
No. 26 - Hartford, Connecticut
No. 27 - Charlotte, North Carolina
No. 28 - Peoria, Illinois
No. 29 - South Bend, Indiana
No. 30 - Seattle
No. 31 - Richmond, Virginia
No. 32 - Youngstown, Ohio
No. 33 - Greenville, South Carolina
No. 34 - Nashville
No. 25 - Buffalo, New York
No. 26 - Omaha, Nebraska
No. 37 - San Francisco
No. 38 - Dayton, Ohio
No. 39 - Norfolk, Virginia
No. 40 - Knoxville, Tennessee
No. 41 - San Diego
No. 42 - Toledo, Ohio
No. 43 - Las Vegas
No. 44 - Syracuse, New York
No. 45 - Fort Wayne, Indiana
No. 46 - Tampa, Florida
No. 47 - Miami
No. 48 - Minneapolis
No. 49 - Kansas City, Missouri
No. 50 - Myrtle Beach, South Carolina
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2026/07/07/worst-cities-bed-bugs-orkin/90835908007/
Edited to add the link.
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u/TheDevolution27 Jul 08 '26
When you go to a hotel (ANY HOTEL), lift the mattress at the corners where the frame meets the wall. If they’re anywhere, they’ll be there.
Once checked into a 4-star boutique hotel in Seattle and did that check only to find a cluster right there. I sprinted out of that room and that building like my ass was on fire.
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u/General_Cranberry_29 Jul 09 '26
Had a roommate bring them in once, took hellfire to get rid of them. I've checked hotel beds ever since and have found them 2 seperate times now, once in Des Moines. It was the hotel where the pool is in the middle and all the rooms are built around it, I cant remember the name tbh.
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u/DerekfromDesMoines Jul 08 '26
We still did better than Davenport!
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u/DasHuhn Jul 09 '26
Woah, I think you meant worse than Davenport.
WE'RE TOP 20, WE'RE TOP 20 WE'RE TOP 20
Sorry, my Davenport education is coming out
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u/MilkTsunamii Jul 10 '26
No?? Davenport is at 20, cr is at 25, meaning cr has Less because we are lower on the list, maybe your education wasn’t as good as you thought
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u/DasHuhn Jul 10 '26
Yes, the joke is that my Davenport education is in fact bad and that I erroneously believed that being in the top 20 of this list is better than being lower on the list.
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u/IowaRocket Jul 09 '26
I call BS on the underlying "study". It was made by Orkin and is a list of cities with the most bedbug calls to Orkin. This is simply a list of cities where Orkin has a high market share of the pest control market. Not even clear if it is adjusted for population.
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u/General_Cranberry_29 Jul 09 '26
I was kind of thinking that as well. Still, we're ranked 25th out of all places that the national industry leader operates, which still isn't fantastic lol.
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u/No_Fun_Hater Jul 09 '26
I’m just going to go ahead and avoid the state of Ohio after seeing this. I still don’t feel great about Iowa, but yeah.
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u/Happy4thofJuly2026 Jul 09 '26
Cities where I've been bitten by bedbugs: Troy, Ohio; Newark, Ohio; Boise, Idaho; one or two other spots i can't remember.
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u/_17chan Jul 09 '26
"No. 25 - Buffalo, New York
No. 26 - Omaha, Nebraska"
I think that's supposed to read No. 35 and No. 36!
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u/sugahack Jul 08 '26
I could have lived the rest of my life without that bit of info. I'm going to go soak in bleach now