West Virginia’s online casino market just wrapped up its strongest fiscal year yet, and the numbers make it one of the standout performers in the country’s growing iGaming landscape.
According to figures released by the West Virginia Lottery, online casinos in the state generated $38.3 million in revenue during June, capping off Fiscal Year 2025/26 with a total of $439.2 million. That’s a jump of 42.7 percent compared to the previous fiscal year, when the market brought in $307.7 million. For a state with a population under two million, that kind of growth puts West Virginia among the fastest expanding iGaming markets in the nation.
June’s monthly total came in a bit softer than May’s $39.5 million, marking a dip of roughly 3 percent month over month. Part of that has to do with the calendar. June only has 30 days compared to May’s 31, and West Virginia’s lottery reports revenue in weekly blocks rather than clean monthly totals, so the comparison isn’t perfectly apples to apples. Still, June’s number represented a solid 42 percent increase over June 2025, when the state pulled in about $27 million. Breaking down the weekly filings, the state collected $9.5 million in the week ending June 6, $8.4 million the following week, $9.3 million for the week ending June 20, another $9.2 million the week after that, and $3.6 million for the final three days of the month that closed out the fiscal year.
With West Virginia taxing online casino revenue at a flat 15 percent, June alone generated about $5.7 million for the state. Across the full fiscal year, that tax rate translated into roughly $65.9 million flowing into the West Virginia Lottery Interactive Wagering Fund, money that helps support education and scholarship programs, senior services, tourism, infrastructure work, and veterans programs throughout the state.
The real story of the fiscal year, though, is how dramatically the competitive landscape shifted among the four licensed operators. Hollywood Casino at Charles Town led the pack with $145.9 million in revenue, up 34.3 percent from the year before. Mountaineer followed with $88 million, a 68.9 percent increase. Mardi Gras posted the wildest swing of the bunch, rocketing up more than 1,000 percent to $88.2 million after FanDuel Casino moved its online skin over from Greenbrier near the start of the fiscal year. That single platform switch tells you almost everything about why Greenbrier, the previous fiscal year’s revenue leader, saw its numbers fall. The property dropped 16 percent year over year to $117 million, becoming the only operator among the four to post a decline.
Greenbrier’s struggles haven’t been limited to its online numbers either. The property has been working to get its gaming license renewed after a last minute push earlier this year to keep its physical facility compliant with state regulations.
Beyond the operator shuffle, West Virginia’s growth reflects a broader pattern playing out across the states that have legalized online casino gaming. Mobile access keeps pulling in players who might not make it to a physical casino floor, competition between major brands like BetMGM, DraftKings, FanDuel, and Caesars keeps promotions and product offerings sharp, and West Virginia’s position next to states without legal online casinos means it picks up some out of state traffic too. That said, the flip side of the coin is familiar to anyone watching mature markets like New Jersey, where a booming iGaming sector has started to pull some business away from brick and mortar casino floors.
Fiscal Year 2026/27 kicked off on July 1, marking the seventh year of legal online casino gaming in the state since its 2020 launch. Given how strong the last twelve months have been, a sudden reversal seems unlikely even if growth cools off from the blistering 42 percent pace. For now, West Virginia remains proof that a small state can still carve out a serious presence in America’s iGaming market.
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