West Virginia Layoffs 2026: WARN Numbers Explained

West Virginia's layoff picture in 2026 is a study in what WARN data looks like when the official pipeline goes quiet. The Layoff Atlas registry holds 58 imported WARN notices for the state reporting 2,930 affected workers — but no official West Virginia filing has entered the archive since December 20, 2024. Here's what the numbers actually mean.

The headline figures

• 58 non-cancelled imported WARN notices
• 2,930 reported workers affected
• 0 notices with future effective dates
• 36 notices with unavailable worker counts

The full archive combines 24 direct government records with 34 attributed secondary records. The site's most recent source check ran October 17, 2026.

The first thing to understand about these figures: they describe notices, not unique people and not completed layoffs. WARN filings are advance notifications of planned mass layoffs and plant closures — reported plans, not confirmed job losses. When a single employer files multiple notices for different facilities, those are separate notices, not necessarily separate rounds of cuts.

The official-filing gap

The most important context on West Virginia is this: during the last 365 days, the imported archive contains zero eligible official filings for the state. The newest official notice date is December 20, 2024.

That does not mean zero layoffs happened in West Virginia in 2026. It means the state's official feed has not synced into the registry for nearly two years — a coverage gap, not a clean bill of health. West Virginia is not alone here; the national registry covers 51 jurisdictions and only 48 have imported records, with three jurisdictions (Arkansas, Wyoming, and New Hampshire) showing no imported records at all as of the October 17 source check. West Virginia sits just above that line: a state page with history, but no fresh official paper trail.

This is why the "reported plans, not confirmed job losses" caveat matters doubly for West Virginia. The 2025 and 2026 figures come almost entirely from secondary attributed records — the WARN Feed archive — where worker counts are routinely unavailable.

What 2026 looks like so far

Nine notices have been logged for West Virginia in 2026, and every one of them reports zero workers — worker counts are unavailable for all of them, not zero layoffs.

• ECM Energy Services — notice Aug 19, 2026, workers unavailable
• Eagle Horizon Resources — notice Aug 1, 2026, workers unavailable
• West Virginia Conduent — notice Jul 1, 2026, workers unavailable
• Felman Productions — notice Jul 1, 2026, workers unavailable
• Greenbrier Minerals — notice Jul 1, 2026, workers unavailable
• JeniusBank — notice Jun 4, 2026, workers unavailable
• Mettiki — notice Apr 1, 2026, workers unavailable
• Greenbrier Minerals — notice Feb 13, 2026, workers unavailable
• Mettitki Coal — notice Jan 29, 2026, workers unavailable

The pattern is hard to miss: six of the nine 2026 notices are energy and mining operations — Greenbrier Minerals appears twice, alongside ECM Energy Services, Eagle Horizon Resources, Mettiki, and Mettitki Coal. That is consistent with West Virginia's economy, where coal and energy employment concentrates the qualifying mass layoffs that trigger WARN reporting. But without worker counts, these notices tell us that reductions were planned at these employers, not how many workers were affected.

2025 shows a similar shape: 21 notices, all with unavailable worker counts, dominated by mining and facility operations — Eagle Energy, Coalmac, Itmann Mining, Delbarton Prep Plant, and multiple Greenbrier Minerals filings.

When the numbers were solid

The last years with real worker counts in the archive are 2024 and 2023, when official records still flowed in:

• 2024: 8 notices · 1,172 reported workers
• 2023: 9 notices · 1,309 reported workers
• 2022: 7 notices · 449 reported workers

That is 17 notices covering roughly 2,481 workers across 2023–2024 — the core of the archive's 2,930 total. Everything since is essentially headcount-blind: notices without numbers. The state's filings go back to 2021 (4 notices, no counts), so the registry gives a useful outline of who filed and when, even where it cannot say how many.

West Virginia in the national picture

Nationally, Layoff Atlas currently tracks 737 notices and 67,101 reported workers in its 90-day window, with 28 records lacking worker counts. The heaviest states are Washington (16,855 workers) and California (15,067), followed by Illinois, Texas, and Ohio.

West Virginia does not rank among the heavy states — but that ranking is distorted by the missing official feed. A state whose official filings stopped in December 2024 cannot be fairly compared with states whose agencies publish weekly. Treat the 2,930-worker total as a floor built from partial records, not a final tally.

The upcoming national calendar reinforces the point: the weeks of October 25 (5,802 workers), November 15 (7,781), and November 22 (6,527) all show heavier effective-date loads ahead, but West Virginia has zero notices with future effective dates — again, a data-coverage artifact rather than a promise of a quiet winter.

How to read West Virginia's numbers

1. The 2026 figures are shape without scale. Nine filings from coal, energy, and service employers confirm activity; the missing worker counts make trend math impossible.
2. The official feed is the missing piece. The newest official filing predates 2025. Until that feed reconnects, the archive is a secondary-record story.
3. "Reported plans, not confirmed job losses" applies with extra force here. Secondary records are attributed, not verified agency postings, and undated or uncounted notices cannot be placed on the calendar.

If you are a West Virginia worker trying to track a specific filing, the original weekly and monthly official-data reports linked from the state's Layoff Atlas page remain the best primary source — and the methodology page explains exactly how dates, names, and counts are interpreted before they enter the registry.

Data source: Layoff Atlas