Rainelle is a town on the western edge of Greenbrier County, West Virginia, United States.

The only means of transportation to and from Rainelle are roads; primarily US 60 and WV 20, which merge on the western end of the town, and the James River and Kanawha Turnpike, which enters from the south.

[7] Thomas W. Raine and his brother John moved to the location from Pennsylvania in 1906 to harvest a large stand of hardwoods for building homes, etc.

Their Meadow River Lumber Company operated for 60 years, and at one time was the largest hardwood sawmill in the world.

[8] The town has suffered from several natural disasters in the last decade: most notable of these have been the June 2012 North American derecho, Hurricane Sandy, and the 2016 West Virginia flood.

[9] Rebuilding and demolition of structures damaged in the 2016 flood was still in progress in January 2020.

Homes rebuilt with funds from the federal Hazard Mitigation Grant program were required to be sited two feet above the 100-year floodplain.

[10] According to the United States Census Bureau, the town has a total area of 1.11 square miles (2.87 km2), all land.