Hottest Peppers in the World, Ranked by Scoville Heat
Pepper X is the hottest pepper in this ranking at 2,693,000 SHU. 4,351 chili pepper varieties are ranked here by Scoville heat units, hottest first.
Ranks 2961–2980 of 4,351 · browse the full database
- =2936KoreanC. annuum5,000–20,000 SHU
- =2936Lady Han KoreanC. annuum5,000–20,000 SHU
- =2936PuebloC. annuum5,000–20,000 SHU
- =2936QuintishoC. chinense5,000–20,000 SHU
- =2936Testanera GoldC. annuum5,000–20,000 SHU
- =2936Tho MutantC. chinense5,000–20,000 SHU
- =2936UCMCOP MutantC. annuum5,000–20,000 SHU
- =2936XochitecoC. annuum5,000–20,000 SHU
- =2936CAP 1639C. annuum1,000–20,000 SHU
- =2970Aji PeachC. baccatum17,500 SHU
- =2970Black PrinceC. annuum17,500 SHU
- =2970Brown EggC. chinense17,500 SHU
- =2970FishC. annuum17,500 SHU
- 2974Hidalgo SerranoC. annuum3,000–17,000 SHU
- 2975Sport PepperC. annuum16,500 SHU
- 2976Santo Domingo PuebloC. annuum16,000 SHU
- 2977Tobago SeasoningC. chinense10,000–15,500 SHU
- =2978Franco's AjiC. baccatum15,000 SHU
- =2978Kitchen PepperC. annuum15,000 SHU
- =2978Nepal SnakebiteC. annuum15,000 SHU
How to read these numbers
Ranked on the heat figure for each variety: the top of its SHU range, or the one number on file. Capsaicin content swings with the seed line, the soil, the weather and where on the plant a pod grew, and two labs testing the same harvest can return different numbers. Very few of these varieties have ever been through a certified test; most figures trace to a breeder or a seed seller rather than a laboratory.
No warranty. WikiPepper publishes these figures as reported and warranties none of them. Treat a Scoville number as a claim about one harvest, not a property of the variety, and do not rely on it for anything that matters.
A rank marked = is shared: those varieties hold the same heat figure, usually because one breeder’s published number was applied across a family, so their order on the page carries no meaning. 844 varieties have no Scoville figure recorded at all and are not ranked; they still appear in the database. Spotted a figure you can source? Tell us.