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Hottest Pepper
The world’s hottest pepper is constantly changing, evolving almost. It seems every year a new pepper is either created or discovered so check back often to see new record breaking peppers! PepperHead® has the most up-to-date list of the World’s Hottest Peppers. Here at PepperHead® we have been growing these “super hots” for over 20 years and have grown and eaten every pepper on this list. We are dedicated to providing you spicy lovers with the ability to grow all of these insanely spicy peppers in your own backyards. Without further ado, here is our Top 10 Hottest Pepper List.Share this Hottest Pepper List
Top 10 Hottest Peppers In The World [2026 Update]
SHU = Scoville Heat Unit (A measure of Spiciness) Pepper Scoville Scale displayed as Peak SHU Values SHU is a way of quantifying how spicy a pepper is by measuring the concentration of capsaicinoids. Capsaicin is the chemical responsible for the spicy sensation within a pepper.1. Pepper X 2,693,000 SHU
Pepper X is now the World’s hottest Pepper with an average of 2.69 Million Scoville Units and peaks over 3 Million SHU. Not much is known about this pepper since seeds have not been publicly released. So unfortunately you cannot taste or grow Pepper X yourself.
2. Carolina Reaper 2,200,000 SHU
The Carolina Reaper pepper is 200x hotter than a Jalapeno #WorldsHottestPepperJust looking at the pictures above, you know its one mean pepper. The Carolina Reaper has a unique stinger tail that is unlike any other pepper and every pod is different! It gets this insane heat from being a cross between a Ghost Pepper and a Red Habanero. Oddly enough this pepper doesn’t just have heat, but excellent fruity flavor to boot. Well, that is before it melts your face off. More Carolina Reaper Info
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You can now buy the reaper as powder, live plants or seeds so you can grow your own plant and try for yourself.3. Trinidad Moruga Scorpion 2,009,231 SHU
Straight from the depths of hell the Trinidad Scorpion Moruga Blend, AKA Moruga Scorpion, is a rare sought after pepper that was only just recently discovered.
Native to the lands of Moruga in Trinidad and Tobago. Once you take a bite of this formidable pepper the heat never stops building.
This pepper may be lacking the Reaper’s stinger, but don’t let that fool you. The Moruga Scorpion is every bit as hot as The Carolina Reaper.
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4. 7 Pot Douglah 1,853,936 SHU
Well renown in the pepper community as one of the hottest peppers with the best flavor.
The 7 Pot Douglah is the hottest pepper you can find that isn’t red.
The hottest “superhot” peppers are traditionally red, but the Douglah defies the odds by being brown AND scortching hot.
You can’t go wrong with fresh, dried, or powdered Douglah on any food.
Also known as 7 Pod Douglah, Chocolate 7 Pod or the 7 Pot Brown.
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5. 7 Pot Primo 1,469,000 SHU
The 7 Pot Primo is very distinctive with its long skinny “tail”.
This pepper was created by horticulturist Troy Primeaux.
Some peppers cultivators have tried to replicate the Primo look by breeding their own peppers to have a long stinger.
When you just look at this pepper, you know it’s going to be INSANELY hot. It coincidentally looks strikingly similar to The Carolina Reaper…
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6. Trinidad Scorpion “Butch T” 1,463,700 SHU
The Trinidad Scorpion Butch T is a previous Guinness World Record Holder (2011) from Australia.
No doubt it’s insanely hot, but other peppers have been proven to be hotter.
It’s aptly named due to the scorpion stinger found at the tip of the pepper and also the creator, Butch Taylor.
The burn from this pepper is unlike any other.
The Trinidad Scorpion Butch T pepper burns like you swallowed a 1,000 suns.More Butch T Info
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7. Naga Viper 1,349,000 SHU
Naga Viper is an extremely rare pepper cultivated in the UK. Hybrid of many different peppers and years of cross pollination created this variety of “Super HOT” pepper.
It was never fully stabilized before being released so pod variation is expected.
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8. Ghost Pepper (Bhut Jolokia) 1,041,427 SHU
The Ghost Pepper is the most famous “Super Hot” due to the amount of press it has received in the past.
It exploded in popularity on YouTube and other social sites where pepperheads ate whole Ghost Peppers as part of a challenge.
This is the first pepper to scientifically test over 1 million scovilles.
Many mistakenly believe the Ghost Pepper is still the World’s Hottest pepper, this list shows it is far from it.This isn’t 2007. If you have friends that still think the Ghost Pepper is the hottest pepper, share this page with them. However, don’t be fooled by how low this is on the list as it can still bring a grown man to his knees. More Ghost Pepper Info
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9. 7 Pot Barrackpore ~1,000,000 SHU
The 7 Pot Barrackpore is one of the hottest of the 7 Pot peppers.
This one is from the Town of Chaguanas in Trinidad and Tobago.
Many of these “super hots” come from this region.
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10. Red Savina Habanero 500,000 SHU
Back in the early years of super hots, the Red Savina Habanero was KING!
It held the title of the World’s Hottest Pepper from 1994 to 2006. 12 Years!
The Red Savina has since been dethroned and many peppers have passed it in heat, but still to this day it is one of my favorite peppers to grow because it has the perfect balance of heat and flavor..
The Red Savina just barely makes the Top 10, but does so in fashion with its great flavor and extreme heat.
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Honorable Mentions
Lets talk about some upcoming hybrid peppers that show promise. These two hot peppers will be added to the list once their validity has been confirmed.Dragon’s Breath 2,483,584 SHU
There have been recent reports of a Dragon’s Breath pepper claiming to be hotter than the Carolina Reaper.Preliminary testing of the Dragon’s Breath pepper pegs it at 2,483,584 SHU which would blow the Carolina Reaper out of the water.It could be a publicity stunt in which the “news” websites ate up, even claiming Dragon’s Breath could kill you. Technically a pencil can kill you too…
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My husband Bob has been growing Carolina Reapers for the past 3 years in our garden. We pick them from Summer through the first frost. He dehydrates them in a dehydrater outside where we live in North Carolina because the one time he did it in the house it made our eyes burn and water. He ships them to family and friends in the US who want them.
I just ate the Carolina reaper its hot asf
These are some hot peppers, but not as hot as the cherry pepper lol cant believe ytou kipped over it lol olol yuh. fuk peppers eat cranberiirs
by and by put some of these hotties on your lasanga and it will suck, just like eating these in general and even looking at them make me puke chuks and cripple my eyes ‘
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I am interested in the 10 hottest Pepper seedlings for my pilot farm
We are going to be offering 14 different live superhot pepper plants this next year. Keep an eye on this page https://pepperhead.com/product-category/plants/ it will be updating in a few weeks allowing pre-orders.
good articles,i want to grow them.i have 4 acres
can you grow them in the winter?pismo beach,ca
You can grow these superhots indoors in the winter, but you would need grow lights. These plants can’t survive outside in freezing temperatures. December and January is a good time to start these plants indoors and transplant outside after the last chance of freeze.
are you sure that is true?
i’m not sure it is,plus i think that in the future, they might breed cal.reaper with ghost pepper to make a new pepper
Have grown Tabasco peppers through the winter for three or four years. I place them in a west facing window. They do fine
I HAVE PRODUCING PLANTS FOR ,HAB,GHOST,JALAPENO AND SOME YELLOW PEPPERS IN MY GARDENS. NOW I AM GETTING SOME SEEDS FOR THE REAPERS AND SCORPIONS AND TRY THEM IN MY HYDROPONIC SYSTEM .
peppers are not hot they taste like candy
was pranked and ate the cali. reaper…… puked 3 times but i got $20 for actually eating all of it. ;b
Love this site
I have eaten on =[
i will never eat any one of these peppers
I am growing Carolina reapers,ghost and Trinidad scorpion peppers in pots on my deck,when should I pick the ripe ones?
There is an as yet “undiscovered” pepper on the Indonesian Island of Sumba, that makes all of these look like baby food. It is a tiny birds eye type chilli, measuring less than 1 cm in length and about 1.5-2 mm in diameter. Just one of these added to a large pot is enough to give someone like me serious heartburn and ring sting, and I can eat Jalapenos like candy. If you put it in your mouth it is like being stung by a swarm of hornets, bees and wasps all at once.
The locals eat them with everything. My wife is from there and says the Caroline Reaper “doesn’t have any taste” and isnt spicy enough, because she is used to these little evil beasts straight from hell.
Hi this is my first attempt at growing chillies. I have thriving trinidad scorpians, trinidad morugo, dorset nagas and scotch bonnets. I mixed mature horse manure to the well drained soil in a sun trap. the plants have a lot of half grown fruits with loads of budding fruits.
I feed once a week with a tomartoe feed t looks like that the weather is changing a lot in england.
Those peppers are really hot I saw the kids screaming lol
I live in Ohio and can my hot peppers and make some into powder I am looking to grow the Hottest ones that I can which do you recommend for my state?
The hottest chilli to date is from Wales, it’s called ‘The Dragon’s Breath’ which has a value of 2,480,000 SHU
Carolina Reaper actually has very good taste. It is over the top hot though. But different from the Ghost, its heat kicks in a few seconds later, so you get the nice taste first. Ghost is hot, but not where the Reaper stands.
There is a new hottest pepper it’s called the dragon’s breath PepperHead should update their status
This has not been confirmed and is still rumors at this point. All of the “news” articles are based off unsubstantiated evidence.
The Dragon’s Breath pepper reportedly checks in at 2.48 million Scovilles. However, Pepper X (Google it for more info) apparently beats that with a reported Scoville rating of 3.18.
The Dragon’s Breath cultivators claim that it can be lethal, but I don’t buy that any more than Pepper X could kill you. Still, such claims pale when compared to the Merciless Peppers of Quetzalacatenango… grown deep in the jungle primeval by the inmates of a Guatemalan insane asylum. Now we’re talkin’ lethal!!
This list is outdated, the spiciest pepper is the dragon’s breath, clocking in at 2.48 million SHU. Just so ya know.
Alot of them look the same I wouldn’t know how to tell the difference
i think that these aren’t the hottest plutonium is the spiciest .
Yous seriously have to update your list your missing the komodo Dragon pepper whats the world’s third hottest chilli and few others from the uk that are hotter than the ghost pepper.