Presently, fire ants are found in 21
U.S. southern states and territories:
Alabama
Nevada
Arizona
New Mexico
Arkansas
North Carolina
Florida
Oklahoma
Georgia
Puerto Rico
Hawaii
South Carolina
Kentucky
Southern California
Louisiana
Tennessee
Maryland
Texas
Mississippi
Virginia
Missouri
The
Number of States in Which Fire Ants Appear is Slowly Growing
They are spread by queens that settle a distance from their original colony
to lay eggs and build a new colony of their own. (Queens can fly as far
as 10 miles to begin a new colony.)