Sinkhole risk in Wetzel County, WV: No soluble rock mapped

No soluble rock mapped

No soluble bedrock mapped.

On soluble rock: 0%
At or near the surface: 0%
Buried under cover: 0%

What to do about a house in Wetzel County

No soluble bedrock is mapped here, so natural sinkholes are unlikely. Collapses from broken pipes or old mines are a separate risk.

Across 358 square miles, under one square mile of Wetzel County maps onto soluble rock. With about 13,766 residents (38 per square mile), much of the land is open, and the mapped rock may sit far from where people actually live. The figures come from 245 map points about 1.2 miles apart, so a pocket smaller than that can be missed or overstated.

Worth reading for this county: why gypsum and salt move faster than limestone, and how these percentages are measured.

Counties around Wetzel County

The nearest county rated sinkhole country is Harrisonburg city, VA, about 124 miles southeast. 3 of the 6 closest counties land in the same band; the ground changes quickly around here.

Tyler County, WV 16 mi southwest · 0% at surface
Marshall County, WV 18 mi north · 4% at surface
Marion County, WV 22 mi east · 15% at surface
Doddridge County, WV 23 mi south · 0% at surface
Harrison County, WV 26 mi southeast · 7% at surface
Monroe County, OH 26 mi west · 0% at surface

Against the rest of West Virginia

Wetzel County ranks 52 of 55 in West Virginia for soluble rock at the surface, and sits above 0% of US counties on that measure.