Brooke County, WV Shrink-Swell Risk

Brooke County's SSURGO shrink-swell reading

Low

In Brooke County, WV, 95.9% of the surveyed soil carries a "Low" shrink-swell rating, 1.76% linear extensibility on average. That's as favorable a county-level reading as this dataset produces - standard foundation practice, pending one lot's own geotechnical report.

Before you rely on this for one address

Brooke County's reading is an average across the whole county, not a promise about any one lot inside it. A site-specific soil report, usually $1,000-$5,000, is what an engineer would actually pull before designing a foundation on a lot in Brooke County.

Budgeting for Brooke County, WV

Brooke County's soil reading points toward standard foundation practice as the likely outcome, not the exception. A geotechnical report runs $1,000-$5,000, typically around $2,700. Foundation repair, if a specific lot turns out to differ from the county average, runs $5,000-$15,000.

How Brooke County, WV compares

Among the 3,085 rated counties on this site, Brooke County, WV ranks 2,208 most-constrained nationally, and 34 of 55 within West Virginia. Brooke County, WV is 89 square miles with a population of 21,285.

See how another county compares

Orleans Parish, LA carries this site's most-constrained reading. Lubbock County, TX and Butler County, AL are worth a look for comparison.

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Elsewhere in West Virginia

Every county in West Virginia is on this site, including Wetzel County, WV and Taylor County, WV. The full underlying dataset is downloadable directly, one row per county.