# Counties in West Virginia by social vulnerability score (FEMA National Risk Index), 2025

All 55 values come from Federal Emergency Management Agency for 2025, so the places are comparable.

- Indicator id: `nri_social_vulnerability_score`
- Unit: index
- Definition: Social vulnerability of a US county as used in FEMA's National Risk Index, from 0 to 100: the county's national percentile rank among all counties, based on the Census Bureau's Community Resilience Estimates, which count residents with social and economic risk factors such as low income, age, disability and household conditions. Higher means more vulnerable.
- Source: Federal Emergency Management Agency, National Risk Index Counties, Social Vulnerability Score (SOVI_SCORE) (https://fema.maps.arcgis.com/home/item.html?id=39485e8035d446a5bff03259508ae355)
- Publisher page: https://invokely.ai/en/publishers/fema
- Retrieved: 2026-10-12
- Citation: Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), National Risk Index Dataset: National Risk Index Counties, Social Vulnerability Score (SOVI_SCORE). https://fema.maps.arcgis.com/home/item.html?id=39485e8035d446a5bff03259508ae355. Retrieved 2026-10-12. This product uses the FEMA National Risk Index dataset API or downloadable datasets but is not endorsed by FEMA. The Federal Government or FEMA cannot vouch for the data or analyses derived from these data after the data have been retrieved from the Agency's website(s).
- Web page: https://invokely.ai/rankings/social-vulnerability-score/west-virginia-counties

| Rank | Place | index |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | Webster County | 98.4 |
| 2 | McDowell County | 96.3 |
| 3 | Clay County | 95.9 |
| 4 | Tyler County | 95.6 |
| 5 | Mingo County | 93.9 |
| 6 | Summers County | 88.9 |
| 7 | Boone County | 85.8 |
| 8 | Brooke County | 85.7 |
| 9 | Monroe County | 84 |
| 10 | Roane County | 82.8 |
| 11 | Nicholas County | 82.7 |
| 12 | Greenbrier County | 80.8 |
| 13 | Wyoming County | 76.6 |
| 14 | Pocahontas County | 76.5 |
| 15 | Pleasants County | 76.3 |
| 16 | Lincoln County | 76.2 |
| 17 | Mercer County | 75.7 |
| 18 | Wayne County | 75.6 |
| 19 | Logan County | 75.5 |
| 20 | Calhoun County | 73.7 |
| 21 | Grant County | 71.7 |
| 22 | Morgan County | 71.6 |
| 23 | Braxton County | 71.3 |
| 24 | Mason County | 69 |
| 25 | Raleigh County | 67.3 |
| 26 | Hardy County | 65.2 |
| 27 | Upshur County | 65.1 |
| 28 | Jackson County | 64.9 |
| 29 | Fayette County | 64.1 |
| 30 | Tucker County | 63.9 |
| 31 | Wetzel County | 63.2 |
| 32 | Preston County | 60.7 |
| 33 | Mineral County | 60.7 |
| 34 | Harrison County | 59.8 |
| 35 | Lewis County | 59.3 |
| 36 | Cabell County | 59.2 |
| 37 | Wood County | 58.6 |
| 38 | Kanawha County | 58 |
| 39 | Wirt County | 54.7 |
| 40 | Hampshire County | 53.5 |
| 41 | Marshall County | 49.7 |
| 42 | Hancock County | 48.6 |
| 43 | Barbour County | 46.5 |
| 44 | Ritchie County | 45.7 |
| 45 | Taylor County | 44.8 |
| 46 | Randolph County | 42.2 |
| 47 | Marion County | 41.9 |
| 48 | Pendleton County | 37.2 |
| 49 | Putnam County | 34.5 |
| 50 | Doddridge County | 33.3 |
| 51 | Ohio County | 27.6 |
| 52 | Gilmer County | 20.2 |
| 53 | Monongalia County | 18.5 |
| 54 | Jefferson County | 15.8 |
| 55 | Berkeley County | 12.2 |