State guide
Ohio Mitigation Banks & Credits
Ohio has 101 open-market mitigation banks and 64 in-lieu fee sites offering wetland, stream and species credits, and recorded 1,320 credit sales — credit withdrawals in the federal ledger — over 2016–2025. This page mirrors the federal USACE RIBITS registry: live availability by credit class and watershed, the banks serving Ohio, and how the state's permitting program relates to the federal one.
Ohio ranks #10 of 50 states by credit sales recorded in the RIBITS ledger over 2016–2025 — 1,320 sales across 48 sellers. All states ranked
Figures mirrored from USACE RIBITS · synced
Ohio mitigation bank map
Ohio Stream Mitigation Credits
17 stream banks & sites have credits available now in Ohio. Banks are sorted by available quantity.
Other Stream Credits
Which of these banks can serve your site? Approved service area decides eligibility, so resolve a location before you shortlist.
Find eligible banksOhio Wetland Mitigation Credits
43 wetland banks & sites have credits available now in Ohio. Banks are sorted by available quantity. The listings below are grouped as Forested Credits, Non-Forested Credits and Other Wetland Credits.
Forested Credits
7 more wetland banks are sold out or closed in Ohio and are not listed here.
Non-Forested Credits
Other Wetland Credits
Ohio Species Mitigation Credits
Conservation-bank credits in Ohio are issued against a specific listed species or habitat. The curated headings below make the market browsable without changing the underlying RIBITS classifications or implying that separately issued credits are interchangeable. The sections below cover Indiana Bat Credits and Northern Long-eared Bat Credits.
Indiana Bat Credits
The Indiana bat spends winter in caves and mines and uses forested habitat across the eastern and central United States during summer. It is a small brown bat with short rounded ears and a distinctly keeled calcar on the hind foot.
Northern Long-eared Bat Credits
The northern long-eared bat uses forested habitat across much of eastern and north-central North America and hibernates in caves and mines. Its ears extend noticeably beyond the nose when laid forward, distinguishing it from many other small brown bats.
Mitigation banks pending approval in Ohio
8 mitigation banks have applied for approval to sell credits in Ohio and are still under review. Pending means the reviewing agency has not approved them yet, so they cannot sell credits here today. They are listed because they are the supply that could enter this market next. No credit quantity is shown for a bank that cannot sell.
In-lieu fee programs serving Ohio
An in-lieu fee program sells the same regulatory outcome as a bank for an administrative fee. Federal rule ranks bank credits first (33 CFR 332.3(b)), so programs are listed here — after the bank sections — and never inside them.
3 further approved in-lieu fee programs serve Ohio but hold no credits here right now.
2 in-lieu fee programs on record for Ohio are withdrawn or terminated and are not listed.
Active watersheds in Ohio
The HUC-6 watersheds where Ohio banks hold offerings, by number of offerings.
What mitigation credits cost in Ohio
There is no published price for a mitigation bank credit in Ohio, or anywhere else. Credits change hands in private bilateral deals with no disclosure requirement, and the federal registry has no price field — so any single “average price per credit” you find has been modeled, not measured. What can be documented is individual purchases, one public record at a time. That is what we do, state by state; Ohio is not one we hold a verified transaction for yet. Published in-lieu fee rates
Ohio mitigation banking regulation
Three Corps districts permit compensatory mitigation in Ohio — Buffalo, Huntington and Pittsburgh, all in the Great Lakes and Ohio River Division — and no distinctive functional assessment method binds them together. Credit accounting here is overwhelmingly plain area or length ratios, with only isolated use of Huntington's Missouri Stream Method or Pittsburgh's West Virginia Stream and Wetland Valuation Metric. The real complexity in Ohio is not the federal method: it is that a project can face two permitting tracks at once.
Ohio EPA runs a state isolated-wetlands permit program defined by reference to federal jurisdiction — an "isolated wetland" is one the Clean Water Act does not reach. Because that definition floats with federal jurisdiction rather than naming a fixed set of wetlands, it automatically picked up ground when Sackett v. EPA narrowed federal reach in 2023: wetlands that lost federal cover fall under the state permit rather than going unregulated. Ohio EPA also assigns every wetland a quality category — 1 for minimal function, 2 for moderate, 3 for superior, including old-growth and vernal-pool wetlands — and that category sets the replacement ratio directly, from 1.5:1 at Category 1 up to 3:1 at Category 3, with forested wetlands drawing the higher end of each band.
A project with an isolated wetland therefore carries a state-set ratio from Ohio EPA alongside whatever a Corps district requires for jurisdictional impacts — two permits, two agencies, two ratio schedules on the same parcel. The Nature Conservancy sponsors a statewide in-lieu fee program covering both streams and wetlands under Corps-chaired interagency review with Ohio EPA on the review team, which is the main non-bank option operating alongside the banks listed above.
Permits in Ohio are issued by the Corps’ Buffalo, Huntington and Pittsburgh districts, all in the Great Lakes & Ohio River Division. See our division overview for new-bank approval timelines, and recent permit and bank applications.
Ohio mitigation banking — common questions
How much does wetland mitigation cost in Ohio?
We do not publish a price for a Ohio credit, and nobody else can honestly publish one either: credits are sold in private bilateral deals with no disclosure requirement, and the federal registry has no price field. What we hold is no verified Ohio transaction on record yet — the counts are on this page and the records themselves are not published. What actually moves a credit's price — scarcity in the specific service area that covers your site, the credit class, the unit it is measured in and whether credits are already released — is set out on the credit-cost pillar.
Who issues wetland permits in Ohio?
In Ohio, wetland and stream impacts are permitted through the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Buffalo, Huntington, Pittsburgh Districts. A mitigation bank's credits offset the impact once a permit requires compensation; being in the same state as a bank is not enough — the bank's approved service area must cover your site.
How many mitigation banks are in Ohio?
We track 165 mitigation and conservation banks and in-lieu fee sites on record for Ohio, of which 90 are approved. 101 are open-market banks and 64 are in-lieu fee sites whose credits can be bought; the rest are single-client captive banks excluded from the supply figures on this page.
Get a market analysis for any Ohio watershed
No Ohio watershed has a free market report on this site yet. A full analysis — supply bank by bank, sales pace, runway by credit class and pending entrants — can be ordered for any US watershed.
About the data on this page
Bank details, status and credit balances are mirrored from the USACE RIBITS registry, the federal public record for mitigation banks. Single-client banks are excluded from supply figures. What we call a “credit sale” is a credit withdrawal — the entry written in the federal credit ledger when credits are committed to a permit. At commercial banks a withdrawal generally represents a sale; at a single-client bank it offsets the sponsor’s own project. The figures count ledger transactions, not distinct purchases — one purchase may produce several withdrawals — and we count entries rather than credits moved, because credit classes are different units and cannot be added together. Sales are counted from the withdrawals in RIBITS’s own credit ledger over the last 10 complete years. They are counts of transactions, never sums of credits, for the same reason totals are kept per class. Each bar in a sales chart counts the credit sales recorded in that calendar year — withdrawals from the federal ledger, not quantities of credits. The final bar is the year in progress and is shown in a different color. No bars means no sales in those years.
RIBITS provides credit type and credit classification for each bank listing which we display verbatim. The topic labels and headings you see are ours — we group those names so you can more easily find what you need. For example, five banks selling the same kind of wetland credit may record their classification as “Palustrine Forested”, “PFO - Palustrine Forested”, “Forested Wetland”, “Forested Wetlands” or just “Forested”; we gather all five under one Forested label. Watershed groupings come from each bank’s service area intersected with the USGS Watershed Boundary Dataset. We group at the HUC-6 level because it is the scale at which these patterns are legible: a HUC-8 is sub-regional and usually too small, while a HUC-4 is large enough to average away the local dynamics that decide whether credits are available where you need them. Those links are refreshed monthly rather than nightly, because service areas and watershed boundaries don’t change frequently.
Comps are documented purchases, confirmed against the RIBITS ledger where the transaction can be matched.