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NXS-GRX-USA · Northern America · Regions

West Virginia

First-level unit, United States of America: people, area, the units inside and neighbours, with risk values when released.

Map All 56 first-level units
Page GRX-USA-REdition Baseline Edition 2026Evidence close 2026-09-30ISO USA / USStatus UN member stateValues not yet publishedMethod v1.0.0-draft
1,766,824
people (GHSL 2025)
62,708 km²
area
0.5%
of United States of America
55
units inside

01Ramani

Inside West Virginia

The 55 ADM2 units of West Virginia.

FIG 1 · 55 units inside West Virginia
Inapakia ramani

Units rise with people per km² · GHSL 2025 raster · terrain · ADM1 ADM2Risk values when released
Lowest fifthLow fifthMiddle fifthHigh fifthHighest fifthNo data
Column height and colour show people per km² by unit, in quantile fifths among the units shown (the key on the map gives the breaks); units with no people on the grid are grey, not the lowest class; the raster beneath is the GHSL 2025 population grid. Source observations, not index values. Select a unit to drill into the units inside it; the path above the map climbs back.
02Figures

People, area and density

Source observations from open grids summed inside the boundary; not index values.

Watu · GHSL 2025

1,766,824

0.5% of United States of America.

Watu · WorldPop 2025

1,723,596

-2% against GHSL; the two grids differ in method.

Area

62,708 km²

28 people per km².

Code

US-WV

Subdivision code as carried by the boundary source.

03Units

55 units inside West Virginia

Each unit has its own page.

Boundary licences: Public Domain

Unit Code People (GHSL) People (WorldPop) Area km² Per km² Share Coast ≤ 10 m
Barbour – 16,572 14,966 884.4 19 0.9% 0
Berkeley – 109,350 126,586 828.36 132 6.2% 0
Boone – 23,932 20,435 1,301.5 18 1.4% 0
Braxton – 13,790 11,006 1,335.03 10 0.8% 0
Brooke – 18,200 17,451 239.81 76 1% 0
Cabell – 86,163 87,665 744.68 116 4.9% 0
Calhoun – 7,119 5,039 727.77 10 0.4% 0
Clay – 8,801 7,094 888.99 10 0.5% 0
Doddridge – 7,800 7,431 830.67 9 0.4% 0
Fayette – 42,633 35,505 1,730.44 25 2.4% 0
Gilmer – 8,991 6,668 880.55 10 0.5% 0
Grant – 11,424 10,475 1,246.57 9 0.6% 0
Greenbrier – 34,777 31,501 2,652.35 13 2% 0
Hampshire – 24,641 23,185 1,671.34 15 1.4% 0
Hancock – 24,835 25,050 227.28 109 1.4% 0
Hardy – 13,800 14,520 1,508.4 9 0.8% 0
Harrison – 67,614 65,554 1,078.78 63 3.8% 0
Jackson – 26,768 25,804 1,221.48 22 1.5% 0
Jefferson – 53,163 57,761 550.35 97 3% 0
Kanawha – 183,721 175,604 2,359.26 78 10.4% 0
Lewis – 15,718 17,538 1,009.17 16 0.9% 0
Lincoln – 22,409 20,993 1,132.83 20 1.3% 0
Logan – 35,042 29,902 1,182.42 30 2% 0
Marion – 53,474 55,485 807.89 66 3% 0
Marshall – 42,719 39,875 807.58 53 2.4% 0
Mason – 32,253 29,842 1,151.38 28 1.8% 0
McDowell – 21,417 17,596 1,383.61 15 1.2% 0
Mercer – 60,450 58,772 1,089.08 56 3.4% 0
Mineral – 24,028 23,448 847.98 28 1.4% 0
Mingo – 24,263 21,086 1,092.38 22 1.4% 0
Monongalia – 93,441 103,641 944.38 99 5.3% 0
Monroe – 12,005 10,939 1,226.65 10 0.7% 0
Morgan – 16,822 16,679 593.61 28 1% 0
Nicholas – 24,777 23,647 1,693.58 15 1.4% 0
Ohio – 40,984 38,755 282.58 145 2.3% 0
Pendleton – 7,295 5,000 1,803.27 4 0.4% 0
Pleasants – 8,300 8,435 349.65 24 0.5% 0
Pocahontas – 8,219 7,310 2,437.44 3 0.5% 0
Preston – 30,296 32,168 1,685.55 18 1.7% 0
Putnam – 52,888 56,252 906.57 58 3% 0
Raleigh – 77,178 73,052 1,576.86 49 4.4% 0
Randolph – 28,608 27,583 2,696.3 11 1.6% 0
Ritchie – 10,176 7,211 1,172.86 9 0.6% 0
Roane – 14,519 14,132 1,252 12 0.8% 0
Summers – 13,402 10,747 951.8 14 0.8% 0
Taylor – 16,103 16,526 452.36 36 0.9% 0
Tucker – 6,742 6,548 1,089.99 6 0.4% 0
Tyler – 7,564 6,744 674.55 11 0.4% 0
Upshur – 23,564 23,662 914.55 26 1.3% 0
Wayne – 37,506 35,718 1,330.51 28 2.1% 0
Webster – 8,747 8,032 1,441.09 6 0.5% 0
Wetzel – 9,891 7,672 934.55 11 0.6% 0
Wirt – 5,845 5,212 606 10 0.3% 0
Wood – 73,825 74,467 975 76 4.2% 0
Wyoming – 22,047 19,680 1,301.67 17 1.2% 0
04Mfiduo

Open exposure layers

Count of H3 resolution-3 cells whose centre falls in the unit and that carry each Natural Earth layer.

Urban areas
496.2 H3 cells
Bandari
None at this resolution
Viwanja vya ndege
1 H3 cells
Major roads
3,206.3 H3 cells
Reli
625.2 H3 cells
Rivers and lakes
886.8 H3 cells
05Hatari

Risk values

Values when released. Subnational risk values for West Virginia publish with the edition from The Global Risks Index. Until then, run a scenario on open data for United States of America.
Run a scenario Hazards Domain indices
06Neighbours

Neighbouring units

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Sources, credits and licences

ADM1 boundaries
geoBoundaries (William & Mary geoLab), gbOpen USA ADM1, source: United States Census Bureau, MAF/TIGER Database, licence: Public Domain · source · represents 2018
ADM2 boundaries
geoBoundaries (William & Mary geoLab), gbOpen USA ADM2, source: United States Census Bureau, MAF/TIGER Database, licence: Public Domain · source · represents 2018
Basemap
OpenFreeMap © OpenMapTiles (CC BY 4.0) · data © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL 1.0). Vector tiles requested by the reader’s browser, unmodified; the map falls back to plain land and sea when the host does not answer.
Terrain
Terrain Tiles (Mapzen, AWS Open Data), compiled from SRTM and other public elevation sources (NASA, USGS, ETOPO1, GMTED, EU-DEM under the Copernicus programme, Geoscience Australia, Kartverket, INEGI, LINZ, data.gov.uk). Display relief, not survey data.
People
GHSL 2025 population grid, European Commission Joint Research Centre (CC BY 4.0), shown at 0.05° and summed per unit; WorldPop 2025 (CC BY 4.0) as a second estimate. Units smaller than a grid cell take the density of the cell under them.
Nchi
Natural Earth (public domain).
Elevation
GEBCO Compilation Group (2024) GEBCO 2024 Grid (public domain), reduced to 0.05°: the share of each cell’s land at or below 10 m, weighted by GHSL 2025 people for the low coastal zone.
Position
Boundaries are shown for location only and take no position on any boundary, name or status.

Hali

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Taasisi na vyanzo

Nexus Consortium inasimamiwa na taasisi tatu huru zisizo za faida: The Global Centre for Risk and Innovation (GCRI), kupitia GCRI US huko Washington, DC na GCRI Canada huko Ontario, huku GCRI Canada ikiwa Taasisi Kiongozi, Sekretarieti ya Muungano na shirika kiongozi la mikataba; The Global Risks Forum (GRF); na The Global Risks Alliance (GRA). Watoa huduma za teknolojia, miundombinu na huduma hufanya kazi na Muungano kwa umbali chini ya makubaliano ya maandishi, kama kila mhusika mwingine wa nje katika muundo wa umma, sekta binafsi na sayari, na hawana jukumu lolote katika usimamizi wake.

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Avis en français

La méthodologie et les définitions du NXS-GRX sont un projet de travail préparatoire (2026). Le NXS-GRX est une information de recherche et d’analyse des risques : ni notation, ni indice de référence financier, ni statistique officielle, ni alerte, ni conseil. Les classes de risque sont des bandes sur une échelle publiée, non des classements.