Selective read disturb sampling

A processing device in a memory system maintains a counter to track a number of read operations performed on a data block of a memory device and determines that the number of read operations performed on the data block satisfies a first threshold criterion. The processing device further determines whether a number of scan operations performed on the data block satisfies a scan threshold criterion. Responsive to the number of scan operations performed on the data block satisfying the scan threshold criterion, the processing device performs a first data integrity scan to determine one or more first error rates for the data block, each of the one or more first error rates corresponding to a first set of wordlines of the data block, the first set comprising first alternating pairs of adjacent wordlines.