Mount Storm, West Virginia.
Typical home $146,632 (+1.4% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$382 (+99%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $1,984 +1%
- $144,649$146,632 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $16,328 +13%
- $130,304$146,632 since Sep 2021
Monthly payment to buy the typical home
Home value × that month's 30-year mortgage rate, 20% down, principal and interest. This is the line households feel: prices and rates compound each other.
- Mount Storm$770
- West Virginia$927
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 29 years.
Typical home values in Mount Storm, WV rose 1.4% over the past year — in step with the nation.
Living in Mount Storm, Grant County, West Virginia
The Census does not count Mount Storm on its own, so the figures here are Grant County's. Half the county's households earn more than $62,361 a year and half less; 13% of the county's people live below the poverty line. 81% of the county's homes are lived in by their owners and 19% are rented. Unemployment in Grant County was 4.2% in August 2026, and the county had 3.4% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Grant County work in schools and health care, then manufacturing.
Written by AI Claude Haiku 5.5 wrote this on 22 October 2026 from the figures here, a list of nearby places and what it knows. It can be wrong or out of date.
What it’s like
The place. Mount Storm is a small town in Grant County, in the mountains of eastern West Virginia, where winters are long and cold and summers are warm. Snow is a regular part of the season, and rain falls steadily through the year. Across Grant County, most homes are lived in by their owners, and the county's median age is on the older side, so the town suits people who have settled in for the long run.
Work. Across Grant County, the number of jobs grew over the last year, and the unemployment rate has held steady. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, in manufacturing, in shops, or in the building trades. Incomes across the county are below the state's median, and a share of households live below the poverty line.
Things to do. Mount Storm Lake is a reservoir in or beside the town, so it is the easiest outing to reach. A longer drive brings you to Blackwater Falls, a waterfall, and to the Canaan Valley National Wildlife Refuge, a protected area of wetlands and wildlife. Fairfax Stone State Park, a park also a longer drive away, offers a quieter day outdoors.
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- 4,393households
- 46.4median age
- 14%of adults have a degree
- 13%below the poverty line
- 25 mintypical commute
- 9%work from home
What people in Grant County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Grant County had 3,742 jobs in 2025, 3.4% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 35° and lows near 16°; warmest in July, with highs near 79° and lows near 55°. About 118 inches of snow and 53 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Bayard weather station, 7 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Grant County
- Grant Memorial HospitalCritical access hospital280FTE
- Grant County SchoolsSchool district249FTE
- A.L.L. ConstructionRoad construction239
- Dominion EnergyFossil fuel electric power generation214
- Grant Rehabilitation and Care CenterNursing homes137
- WacoPlumbing, heating & ac131
- BrandSafway Industries LLC - Mount Storm Power StationSpecialty trade contractors26
- ALL ConcreteConcrete paving23
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 8 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 1,149 people in all. Hospitals come from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023) and school districts from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24); FTE marks full-time equivalent staff. Not listed: many offices and banks, which need not report to OSHA; military bases, whose staff OPM withholds; and, in about half the states, city and county governments.
Natural hazards
- Strong windRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms across Grant County, against the rest of the country; all of them together, very low. It is meant for planning, not a substitute for a local risk assessment or a flood map: FEMA’s index.
From the U.S. Census Bureau’s 2020 census and its American Community Survey (2020–2024 five-year estimates), and the Bureau of Labor Statistics. A survey, so each figure has a margin of error, and figures it is not sure of are left out. More on Grant County.
Mount Storm home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Mount Storm$146,632
- West Virginia$176,576
- United States$366,157
When this market ran hot
Each cell is that month's year-on-year home-value growth. Read left to right, top row is the latest year — the 2021–22 band is the boom.
Market heat, inside the city limits
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Mount Storm5
Zip codes with a Mount Storm address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Mount Storm — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.