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Wythe County, Virginia

11 SDWIS-listed public water systems serve 16,720 people in Wythe County. Violation rates use that full inventory; PFAS rates use only the UCMR5-tested subset.

11
SDWIS water systems Smaller third of counties
436
Total violations Lower third of counties
90.9%
SDWIS systems w/ a violation Lower third of counties
0.0%
UCMR5 PFAS rate (2 tested) Lower third of counties with tests

SDWIS compliance plate

Sheet VA197 · Wythe County 11 sys · 436 viol · #1923/3254

VIOL-SEVERE · HEALTH-LOW · RANK-MID · PHOTO-FINISH · PFAS-CLEAN · SRC-GW · SYS-SMALL · BOOK-FULL

  • VIOL-SEVERE 90.9% flagged
  • HEALTH-LOW 17.2% health
  • RANK-MID #1923/3254
  • PHOTO-FINISH ±0.0 pp
  • PFAS-CLEAN 0.0% detect
  • SRC-GW GW lead 55%
  • SYS-SMALL 11 systems
  • BOOK-FULL 7/7 fields

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

According to EPA SDWIS county population served used on /counties, Wythe County ranks #1,923 of 3,254 counties by people served, and #47 of 95 counties in Virginia. See methodology · corpus placement.

Wythe County standing, lower-flagged corpus third

Flagged-system rate 90.9% is at or below the corpus lower third (≤ 92.7% flagged) across 2,973 counties with ≥3 SDWIS systems . Health-based share 17.2% is health-based share in the middle third (≤ 24.5%) . UCMR5 detect rate 0.0% is UCMR5 detect rate at or below the tested-pool lower third (≤ 0.0%) . Population served ranks #1,923 of 3,254 · #47 of 95 in Virginia.

Flagged-rate neighbourhood around Wythe County

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

0% 20% 40% 60% 80% 100% Prince Edward · lowest Wythe · this county Bedford · near Highland · highest 44.4% 90.5% 90.9% 90.9% 91.1% 91.7% 100%

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

Water Systems

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Lower-flagged peers for Wythe County

Cross-state counties nearest Wythe County on flagged-system share (90.9%) and cumulative violation count (436). 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.

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Similar violation load

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

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

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