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Credit Quality - Schedule of Age Analysis of its Past Due Loans, Segregated by Class of Loans (Parenthetical) (Detail) (USD $)
Dec. 31, 2014
Dec. 31, 2013
Financing Receivable, Recorded Investment, Past Due [Line Items]    
Acquired impaired loans from merger $ 176,339,000us-gaap_FinancingReceivableAcquiredWithDeterioratedCreditQuality $ 31,099,000us-gaap_FinancingReceivableAcquiredWithDeterioratedCreditQuality
Loans and Debt Securities Acquired with Deteriorated Credit Quality [Member]    
Financing Receivable, Recorded Investment, Past Due [Line Items]    
Acquired impaired loans from merger $ 176,339,000us-gaap_FinancingReceivableAcquiredWithDeterioratedCreditQuality
/ us-gaap_FinancingReceivableRecordedInvestmentByClassOfFinancingReceivableAxis
= ubsi_LoansAndDebtSecuritiesMember
$ 31,099,000us-gaap_FinancingReceivableAcquiredWithDeterioratedCreditQuality
/ us-gaap_FinancingReceivableRecordedInvestmentByClassOfFinancingReceivableAxis
= ubsi_LoansAndDebtSecuritiesMember