# Counties in West Virginia by annual precipitation, 2025

All 55 values come from NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information for 2025, so the places are comparable.

- Indicator id: `precipitation_annual`
- Unit: inches
- Definition: Total precipitation from January to December, in inches: rain plus the water content of snow and other frozen precipitation. NOAA computes it from its climate divisional dataset (nClimDiv): station readings interpolated onto a 5 km grid and averaged over the area.
- Source: NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, NOAA Climate at a Glance, January to December precipitation, counties (https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/access/monitoring/climate-at-a-glance/county/mapping)
- Publisher page: https://invokely.ai/en/publishers/noaa-ncei
- Retrieved: 2026-10-12
- Citation: NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Climate at a Glance. NOAA Climate at a Glance, January to December precipitation, counties. From the NOAA Monthly U.S. Climate Divisional Database (nClimDiv), doi:10.7289/V5M32STR. https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/access/monitoring/climate-at-a-glance/county/mapping. Retrieved 2026-10-12.
- Web page: https://invokely.ai/rankings/annual-precipitation/west-virginia-counties

| Rank | Place | inches |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | Preston County | 52.13 |
| 2 | Webster County | 51.63 |
| 3 | Randolph County | 51.1 |
| 4 | Nicholas County | 50.98 |
| 5 | Kanawha County | 50.69 |
| 6 | Wayne County | 50.46 |
| 7 | Fayette County | 50.09 |
| 8 | Boone County | 49.83 |
| 9 | Upshur County | 49.73 |
| 10 | Tucker County | 49.67 |
| 11 | Lincoln County | 49.35 |
| 12 | Logan County | 48.81 |
| 13 | Monongalia County | 48.33 |
| 14 | Cabell County | 48.24 |
| 15 | Greenbrier County | 48.2 |
| 16 | Clay County | 47.85 |
| 17 | Mingo County | 47.82 |
| 18 | Barbour County | 47.41 |
| 19 | Putnam County | 47.33 |
| 20 | Pocahontas County | 47.09 |
| 21 | Mason County | 46.89 |
| 22 | Wirt County | 46.88 |
| 23 | Jackson County | 46.73 |
| 23 | Taylor County | 46.73 |
| 25 | Wood County | 46.69 |
| 26 | Marion County | 45.96 |
| 27 | Raleigh County | 45.59 |
| 28 | Roane County | 45.48 |
| 29 | Doddridge County | 45.2 |
| 30 | Lewis County | 45.12 |
| 31 | Pleasants County | 44.98 |
| 32 | McDowell County | 44.95 |
| 33 | Harrison County | 44.75 |
| 34 | Wetzel County | 44.33 |
| 35 | Tyler County | 44.18 |
| 36 | Ritchie County | 43.94 |
| 37 | Braxton County | 43.23 |
| 38 | Wyoming County | 42.88 |
| 39 | Summers County | 42.02 |
| 40 | Calhoun County | 41.67 |
| 41 | Monroe County | 41.6 |
| 42 | Gilmer County | 39.86 |
| 43 | Mercer County | 38.19 |
| 44 | Pendleton County | 38.02 |
| 45 | Marshall County | 37.5 |
| 46 | Grant County | 36.99 |
| 47 | Hardy County | 35.52 |
| 48 | Mineral County | 34.13 |
| 49 | Ohio County | 33.5 |
| 50 | Hancock County | 33.32 |
| 51 | Hampshire County | 33.03 |
| 52 | Brooke County | 33.01 |
| 53 | Morgan County | 32.91 |
| 54 | Berkeley County | 32.39 |
| 55 | Jefferson County | 32.32 |