Hottest Peppers in the World, Ranked by Scoville Heat
Pepper X is the hottest pepper in this ranking at 2,693,000 SHU. 4,243 chili pepper varieties are ranked here by Scoville heat units, hottest first.
Ranks 21–40 of 4,243 · browse the full database
- =4Peach ReaperC. chinense1,500,000–2,200,000 SHU
- =4Purple Peach Reaper DSC. chinense1,500,000–2,200,000 SHU
- =4Purple Reaper × Naga TigerC. chinense1,500,000–2,200,000 SHU
- =4Reaper × JPGSC. chinense1,500,000–2,200,000 SHU
- =4Reaper × PDNC. chinense1,500,000–2,200,000 SHU
- =4Reaper × Pink Tiger × Purple PeachC. chinense1,500,000–2,200,000 SHU
- =4Reaper × Puerto Rican Yellow DarkC. chinense1,500,000–2,200,000 SHU
- =4Reaper × SRTSL × Purple ReaperC. chinense1,500,000–2,200,000 SHU
- =4Reaper Bonnet GnarlyC. chinense1,500,000–2,200,000 SHU
- =4Reaper EquisC. chinense1,500,000–2,200,000 SHU
- =4Reaper Of Death PeachC. chinense1,500,000–2,200,000 SHU
- =4Rusty ReaperC. chinense1,500,000–2,200,000 SHU
- =4Sepia ReaperC. chinense1,500,000–2,200,000 SHU
- =4Sepia Reaper × Pimenta da NeydeC. chinense1,500,000–2,200,000 SHU
- =4Texas ReaperC. chinense1,500,000–2,200,000 SHU
- =4White ReaperC. chinense1,500,000–2,200,000 SHU
- =4Yellow ReaperC. chinense1,500,000–2,200,000 SHU
- =4Carolina Reaper Mini RedC. chinense1,400,000–2,200,000 SHU
- =4Grim ReaperC. chinense1,400,000–2,200,000 SHU
- =4Komodo Dragon OrangeC. chinense1,400,000–2,200,000 SHU
How to read these numbers
Ranked on the upper Scoville figure held for each variety. 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 upper figure, usually because one breeder’s published number was applied across a family, so their order on the page carries no meaning. 958 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.