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Superfund sites in West Virginia

West Virginia has 10 Superfund sites: 0.8% of the US total of 1,316. That ranks #38 by count and #16 per person (0.56 per 100,000 residents) of 51.

#16

national rank (per capita)

Superfund sites

0.56

per 100k residents

The data

Source: EPA National Priorities List, September 2026. Every National Priorities List site in the 50 states and DC, at the EPA’s coordinates. Sites in the territories are left out.

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Named Superfund sites in West Virginia include

Fike Chemical, Inc. · West Virginia Ordnance (USARMY) · Sharon Steel Corp (Fairmont Coke Works) · Vienna Tetrachloroethene · Big John Salvage - Hoult Road · Ravenswood PCE Ground Water Plume · North 25th Street Glass and Zinc · Shaffer Equipment/Arbuckle Creek Area · Paden City Groundwater · Ormet Corp.

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