Tornado Risk in Logan County, WV
Logan County's tornado history, by the numbers
Zero tornado tracks recorded in Logan County since 1950, per NOAA's Storm Prediction Center. That reflects the actual geography, not a hole in the record. That is the 3rd percentile nationally for tornado frequency. West Virginia has 55 counties in this dataset; Logan County ranks 47 of them by frequency.
The number that matters more than frequency
No violent (EF4-5) tornado has been recorded in Logan County in NOAA's 76-year database. Of its 0 recorded tracks, 0 were weak (EF0-1) and 0 significant (EF2-3).
Shelter and safe-room economics
West Virginia does not currently have a confirmed state rebate layered on top of FEMA's 75% Hazard Mitigation cost-share, so a Logan County homeowner should expect the full national range: $2,890-$13,280, $7,645 typical.
Power after the storm, not just shelter during it
30,560 people live in Logan County, and a tornado outbreak's power loss usually reaches far more of West Virginia than the tracks themselves touch. A portable battery unit is the faster, no-fuel way to bridge that outage.
What Logan County's figure does not tell you
Logan County's figure is county-wide, not address-specific. Logan County covers about 453 square miles, so a single touch here counts the same as a single touch in a county a fraction of that size. NOAA also documents that older records undercount weaker tornadoes from before Doppler radar became standard. Logan County has about 30,560 residents.