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Wise County, Virginia

SDWIS compliance plate

Sheet VA195 · Wise County 9 sys · 510 viol · #1134/3254

VIOL-SEVERE · HEALTH-MID · RANK-UPPER · PHOTO-FINISH · PFAS-MID · SRC-SW · SYS-TINY · BOOK-FULL

  • VIOL-SEVERE 100.0% flagged
  • HEALTH-MID 22.7% health
  • RANK-UPPER #1134/3254
  • PHOTO-FINISH ±0.0 pp
  • PFAS-MID 25.0% detect
  • SRC-SW SW lead 89%
  • SYS-TINY 9 systems
  • BOOK-FULL 7/7 fields

Nearest flagged-rate peer: Pulaski County (+ 0 pp flagged-rate)

According to EPA SDWIS county population served used on /counties, Wise County ranks #1,134 of 3,254 counties by people served, and #20 of 95 counties in Virginia. See methodology · corpus placement.

Wise County standing, mid-flagged corpus third

Flagged-system rate 100.0% is in the corpus middle third (≤ 100.0% flagged) across 2,973 counties with ≥3 SDWIS systems . Health-based share 22.7% is health-based share in the middle third (≤ 24.5%) . UCMR5 detect rate 25.0% is UCMR5 detect rate in the tested-pool middle third (≤ 33.3%) . Population served ranks #1,134 of 3,254 · #20 of 95 in Virginia.

Flagged-rate neighbourhood around Wise County

Lowest/highest poles plus in-state counties nearest Wise County on % of SDWIS systems with ≥1 violation. Full ladder: /counties.

0% 20% 40% 60% 80% 100% Prince Edward · lowest Highland · highest Smyth · near Scott · near 44.4% 100% 100% 100% 100% 100% 100%

Source: EPA SDWIS (county aggregates) As of 2026-05-15

Water Systems

System Name Population Violations PFAS
Wise County Regional Water System 11,500 45 Clean
Big Stone Gap, Town Of 9,372 76 Clean
Wise, Town Of 6,375 39 Detected
Coeburn, Town Of 4,630 63 Clean
Appalachia, Town Of 2,745 68 -
Wcpsa-Pound 2,501 98 -
St Paul, Town Of 1,010 82 -
Bold Camp 943 26 -
High Knob 25 13 -

Compare beyond Virginia

Mid-flagged peers for Wise County

Cross-state counties nearest Wise County on flagged-system share (100.0%) and cumulative violation count (510). In-state neighbours stay on the compliance plate above.

Similar flagged-system rate

Nearest cross-state counties by % of SDWIS systems with at least one violation on record.

4 peers

Similar violation load

Nearest cross-state counties by cumulative SDWIS violation count (all systems in the county).

4 peers
Data sourced from EPA SDWIS and UCMR5 PFAS monitoring data. See our methodology for details. Retrieved and formatted by PlainWater

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