Most commonly searched fears for 2019 in U.S. states (and DC)

Back on April 13, 2019 I had blogged about the Most commonly searched fears in U.S. states for both 2017 and 2018. On October 9, 2019 there was another blog post at YourLocalSecurity (from the alarm firm ADT) titled Each State’s Most-Searched Phobia with results for this year – both an infographic and an alphabetical list by states.

I have summarized them above in a pumpkin-orange bar chart with fears (and their silly -phobia names). 11 states had fear of holes, 5 each had fear of needles, of public speaking, and of water. 4 had a fear of spiders. 3 had fears of clowns, failure, flying, and snakes. 2 had fears of blood, heights, and people. Just one each had fears of being alone, commitment, and the dark.  

A second bar chart shows the fears reported for 2018. 11 states had fears of people and of spiders, 4 had fear of driving, 3 each had fears of commitment, heights, and needles. 2 each had fears of being alone, of bugs, of dying, or no fears. One each had fears of the dark, everything, love, sleep and success. Holes were not most searched for any states in 2018, versus 11 states in 2019 .

A third chart shows fears reported for 2017. 10 states had a fear of the unknown. 4 had fears of darkness, ghosts, holes, and small spaces. 3 had a fear of spiders. 2 each had fears of clowns, commitment, heights, sharks, thunder and lightning, and vomiting. One each had fears of cats, death, flying, food, needles, public speaking, snakes, and work.    

This year for my state of Idaho needles were most searched, in contrast with spiders for both 2017 and 2018.