Hazardous waste · inspections by year

Hazardous waste inspections in Kanawha County, West Virginia in 2026

• 28Handlers inspected
• 32Inspections on record
• 52Handlers inspected in 2025
• 1stAmong West Virginia counties that year

Kanawha County, West Virginia has 28 hazardous waste handlers with at least one inspection on record during 2026, across 32 separate inspections. That compares with 52 in 2025. It is the 1st largest of the 20 West Virginia counties with three or more handlers inspected that year. Each row below carries the date the inspection was recorded, the agency that recorded it and the kind of inspection it was.

Other years

• 2017 50
• 2018 39
• 2019 51
• 2020 31
• 2021 43
• 2022 45
• 2023 32
• 2024 34
• 2025 52
• 2026 28

By what a handler generates, in 2026

• Very small quantity generators inspected in Kanawha County, West Virginia 16
• Large quantity generators inspected in Kanawha County, West Virginia 8
• Small quantity generators inspected in Kanawha County, West Virginia 4

Comparable counties in West Virginia, 2026

• Monongalia County 20
• Harrison County 16
• Putnam County 12
• Berkeley County 11
• Cabell County 11
• Raleigh County 9
• Wood County 7
• Brooke County 6

Inspections recorded in 2026

Figures from EPA’s RCRAInfo download.