Nevada records for the common raccoon are anchored by Stillwater National Wildlife Refuge and Pahranagat National Wildlife Refuge. They show where people have reported it, not how many animals live there.
The Nevada records bridge the state’s southern desert country and its higher central or northern ranges. That broad spread matters more than any single hotspot. The strongest reporting falls in Nevada’s cooler months, when desert travel is easier. That’s a record pattern, not proof that the animal is more numerous then.
The file combines 187 research-grade iNaturalist records and 166 GBIF records. Those 353 records measure documented encounters, not Nevada’s population size. It’s native to Nevada. Nevada doesn’t specifically list it under the state’s conservation framework, and the IUCN lists it as Least Concern.
