How many episodes are in season 6 of Virgin River?

There’s a lot for Virgin River fans to mull over until Season 6 of the Netflix series debuts, starting with a promise from showrunner Patrick Sean Smith that “the journey for Mel and Jack as a couple will always be to having that family that they dream of and that we dream for them.”

Of course, Mel is the series heroine, nurse practitioner-midwife Melinda “Mel” Munroe (Alexandra Breckenridge), and Jack is her loving-but-troubled guy Jack Sheridan (Martin Henderson), who owns the local bar/restaurant. Both of these kind-hearted Virgin River residents have experienced deep loss in their lives and personify the show’s themes of moving forward and seizing second chances.

Netflix has not announced a release date for Season 6 just yet, but we know that the show will not return in 2024, as Netflix released its slate of 2024 shows and Virgin River was not on it. Meaning fans can expect new episodes sometime in 2025.
A lot happened in Season 5, including Mel’s heartbreaking miscarriage, a massive wildfire that threatened to destroy our favorite small town, and the FBI seizing of Jack’s waterfront property during a fentanyl raid he had nothing to do with.
There was also the issue of Doc’s eyesight and how his wife, Hope, reacts to the possibility that he could go blind; Lizzie’s pregnancy announcement; whether Preacher and his firefighter girlfriend, Kaia, will make it; and Muriel telling Dr. Cameron to consider whether he wants to give up having children to be with her.

“There will be some answers [to cliffhangers] early on,” Smith promises of Season 6. “I would say in general I don’t want subsequent seasons to be as heavy as Season 5, but I still want them to be meaningful and emotional.”