● Ranked from real West Virginia data · 2024-25 season
Highest deer harvest counties in West Virginia
Where West Virginia hunters actually kill deer, ranked by the state agency's own reported county harvest. Tags are over-the-counter — the question is where the deer are, and how much of that county you can hunt.
#1Preston County4,943 deer3.4% public→#2Randolph County4,065 deer32.7% public→#3Jackson County3,694 deer3.2% public→#4Greenbrier County3,521 deer17.7% public→#5Mason County3,442 deer5.5% public→#6Wood County3,403 deer1.3% public→#7Upshur County3,286 deer0.3% public→#8Ritchie County3,276 deer4.7% public→#9Lewis County2,823 deer8.5% public→#10Monroe County2,762 deer8.2% public→#11Hampshire County2,595 deer5.8% public→#12Hardy County2,525 deer14.5% public→
How this list is ranked
Ranked by reported deer harvest per county from the state wildlife agency, shown alongside each county's huntable public-land share. High harvest + low public land means the deer are on private ground.
Data year: 2024-25 season. Each row links to its full page with every number cited to its agency source. A place missing a signal is never guessed — it simply can't rank.
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