Raccoons are Texas’s fourth most-recorded mammal, with 31,000 sightings clustered along the wooded Brazos and Trinity river corridors and Caddo National Grasslands, wherever water, large trees, and farmland edges give a nimble, opportunistic forager both cover and an easy meal.
Records peak in April but never drop off sharply, staying above 900 a month even in the leanest stretch of late summer, a pattern that fits a mostly nocturnal animal detected as much by tracks and road encounters near water as by direct sightings. NatureServe rates raccoons secure both in Texas and across their full range, and their comfort around towns and farms means the record here likely tracks human development almost as closely as it tracks river corridors.
