Florida mammals

Woodland Vole in Florida

Microtus pinetorum

Native to Florida SNR Unranked in Florida

Not listed as nonindigenous in Florida by USGS NAS; native to its Florida range.

IUCN Red List status

  1. LC
  2. NT
  3. VU
  4. EN
  5. CR
  6. EW
  7. EX

LC – Least Concern

Widespread and abundant; not at risk.

Woodland Vole in Florida, by the numbers

Occasional in Florida 49th most recorded of 116 mammals logged in Florida

577 occurrence records
1 with iNaturalist photos
Jul 20, 2025 Last seen in Florida

577 total records count every Florida occurrence from GBIF and iNaturalist; the map plots a georeferenced sample of 300; the monthly chart covers the 289 records with a full observation date.

When to look for the Woodland Vole in Florida

Most sightings fall in March.

289 Florida occurrence records (iNaturalist and GBIF) by month of year. Shows when the species is recorded, not a guarantee of presence.

Monthly Florida records (table)
MonthRecords
January8
February10
March186
April9
May6
June11
July12
August19
September2
October5
November13
December8

Monthly woodland vole occurrence records (iNaturalist and GBIF) in Florida.

Seasonality

Year-round in Florida, with recorded sightings peaking in March.

Occurrence map

Where Woodland Vole has been recorded in Florida

300 records mapped · zoom and drag to explore

300 Florida records mapped

Notable places to look

Park, forest, or monumentiNaturalist records
Ichetucknee Springs State Park 3
Marjorie Harris Carr Cross Florida Greenway State Recreation and Conservation Area 2

Protected places with the most woodland vole sightings, from the USGS Protected Areas Database plus named mountain ranges, good spots to look, not a full breakdown, so they don't sum to the total.

Where it's recorded in Florida

CountyRecords
Marion County 299
Alachua County 163
Indian River County 24
Levy County 23
Leon County 15
Pinellas County 11
Citrus County 9
Sarasota County 6
Hardee County 4
Volusia County 3
Gadsden County 3
Columbia County 3
11 other counties 14

The complete county distribution, spread across 23 Florida counties. Every occurrence record falls in one county, so these sum to the total. Counties from GBIF and US Census boundaries.

March alone accounts for 186 of Florida’s 576 woodland vole records, an outsized spike against roughly 20 or fewer sightings in every other month. That’s most consistent with a single concentrated trapping survey rather than a true seasonal pattern in vole activity.

The species is native to Florida and carries a secure G5 rank globally, though NatureServe hasn’t assigned the state its own rank (SNR, unranked). Every one of the 576 records comes from GBIF, not iNaturalist, another sign that this is a burrowing rodent documented mostly through trapping rather than photographs.

Occurrence data from GBIF.

More mammals in Florida in the atlas

Data & sources

The data and visualizations on this page draw on these open sources: