U.S. States with the Most Endangered Species

There are probably fewer species to begin with in Alaska.

By good sources there are not as many as you tought.

Virginia seems an anomaly

Arizona surprised me. The others made sense, as they were either states that I would expect to have large numbers of native species (e.g., Florida, Hawaii) or states with a lot of variety in terms of climate/land type/etc. (e.g., California, North Carolina, Texas). But Arizona seems like largely a dry, dessert state that wouldn't have as many species to begin with.

When you are in deserts you get a lot of micro-climates, which in theory create islands of diversity that leads to speciation.

This is kind of an odd one to think about, because if the species is not present at all in a certain state, it doesnt count, but if it has a low amount it counts. So not a constant scale if you get what I mean. (not good, bad, worse, but good, bad, ow all are dead? that's ok then)