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Which US states publish WARN Act layoff notices - coverage and archive depth
by state
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- layoffs
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- labor-market
- united-states
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Which US states publish WARN Act layoff notices? 48 do, 3 do not — coverage and archive depth for all 51 jurisdictions
Rebuilt 2026-09-16. 48 US jurisdictions (47 states + DC) run a public list of WARN Act layoff notices; we read every one of them daily and hold 61,320 notices back to 1988 (58,060 carry a usable notice date, 3,260 do not — counted, never dropped). Three states publish no public list at all: Arkansas, New Hampshire and Wyoming. So 48 is not "48 of 51" — it is every jurisdiction that publishes, plus a sourced account of the three that do not. Puerto Rico, Guam and the US Virgin Islands are covered by the federal Act but run no public notice portal we could find.
This table is the survey a data buyer normally has to do by hand before trusting any "50-state" claim. It is one row per jurisdiction: does the state publish, how many notices we hold, how far back the public archive actually goes, when it was last read, and — for the three that publish nothing — exactly what we searched for and what we found.
The three states with no public WARN list
| State | Agency that receives WARN notices | What we found (searched 2026-09-13) |
|---|---|---|
| Arkansas (AR) | Arkansas Division of Workforce Services | Searched 2026-09-13: No public WARN notice list on the agency site. Secondary sources report that Arkansas treats WARN filings as confidential under its employment-security law; we have not read the statute ourselves. |
| New Hampshire (NH) | New Hampshire Employment Security | Searched 2026-09-13: No posted list. Secondary sources report that New Hampshire releases WARN notices only in response to a public-records request, which is not a source a daily pipeline can read. |
| Wyoming (WY) | Wyoming Department of Workforce Services | Searched 2026-09-13: No public WARN notice list on the agency site. Secondary sources report that Wyoming treats WARN filings as confidential under state law; we have not read the statute ourselves. |
We did not read the underlying statutes and this card does not cite them. If you know a public source for any of these three, open an issue — it is read, and a working source ships in the next daily rebuild.
Where the public archive is shallow — read this before you buy any "historical" WARN file
"Archive starts" below is the earliest notice date we hold for a state. It is a fact about how far back that state's portal (or the archived copies we could reach) goes — not when the state began requiring notices, and not when layoffs began. 28 publishing jurisdictions start in 2010 or later; the largest of them are the ones that matter for any multi-year analysis:
| State | Notices held | Archive starts | Latest notice |
|---|---|---|---|
| California (CA) | 16,587 | 2014 | 2026-09-09 |
| Florida (FL) | 3,115 | 2015 | 2026-08-28 |
| Texas (TX) | 2,390 | 2019 | 2026-09-11 |
| Maryland (MD) | 1,275 | 2010 | 2026-09-10 |
| Virginia (VA) | 1,124 | 2010 | 2026-09-10 |
| North Carolina (NC) | 1,082 | 2014 | 2026-09-10 |
| Ohio (OH) | 1,070 | 2017 | 2026-09-11 |
| Tennessee (TN) | 1,061 | 2012 | 2026-09-02 |
| Connecticut (CT) | 871 | 2010 | 2026-09-09 |
| Nebraska (NE) | 845 | 2010 | 2026-08-26 |
| Colorado (CO) | 838 | 2015 | 2026-09-10 |
| Arizona (AZ) | 637 | 2010 | 2026-09-03 |
Only 5 jurisdictions reach back before 2000. A ranking of "the biggest layoffs of 1995" from any WARN dataset is a ranking of the states that publish that far back, not of the country. We say this here so nobody learns it after paying.
Every jurisdiction
| State | Publishes a public list | Notices held | Dated | Archive starts | Latest notice | Last read | Agency |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| California (CA) | yes | 16,587 | 16,587 | 2014 | 2026-09-09 | 2026-09-14 | California Employment Development Department |
| New York (NY) | yes | 6,507 | 6,507 | 2001 | 2026-08-25 | 2026-09-15 | New York Department of Labor |
| Illinois (IL) | yes | 4,845 | 4,844 | 1988 | 2026-09-02 | 2026-09-15 | Illinois Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity |
| Florida (FL) | yes | 3,115 | 3,115 | 2015 | 2026-08-28 | 2026-09-15 | FloridaCommerce (REACT WARN list) |
| Texas (TX) | yes | 2,390 | 2,390 | 2019 | 2026-09-11 | 2026-09-15 | Texas Workforce Commission |
| New Jersey (NJ) | yes | 2,324 | 2,247 | 2003 | 2026-09-01 | 2026-09-15 | New Jersey Department of Labor and Workforce Development |
| Michigan (MI) | yes | 2,202 | 2,086 | 2000 | 2026-09-15 | 2026-09-15 | Michigan Department of Technology, Management and Budget |
| Pennsylvania (PA) | yes | 1,895 | 0 | — | 2026-09-16 | 2026-09-15 | Pennsylvania Department of Labor and Industry |
| Washington (WA) | yes | 1,504 | 1,504 | 2004 | 2026-09-11 | 2026-09-15 | Washington Employment Security Department |
| Oregon (OR) | yes | 1,370 | 1,370 | 1988 | 2026-09-01 | 2026-09-15 | Oregon Higher Education Coordinating Commission |
| Maryland (MD) | yes | 1,275 | 1,272 | 2010 | 2026-09-10 | 2026-09-14 | Maryland Department of Labor |
| Indiana (IN) | yes | 1,182 | 1,018 | 2008 | 2026-09-02 | 2026-09-15 | Indiana Department of Workforce Development |
| Virginia (VA) | yes | 1,124 | 1,124 | 2010 | 2026-09-10 | 2026-09-15 | Virginia Employment Commission |
| North Carolina (NC) | yes | 1,082 | 1,082 | 2014 | 2026-09-10 | 2026-09-15 | North Carolina Department of Commerce |
| Ohio (OH) | yes | 1,070 | 1,070 | 2017 | 2026-09-11 | 2026-09-15 | Ohio Department of Job and Family Services |
| Alabama (AL) | yes | 1,061 | 1,061 | 1998 | 2026-08-31 | 2026-09-14 | Alabama Department of Commerce |
| Tennessee (TN) | yes | 1,061 | 1,060 | 2012 | 2026-09-02 | 2026-09-14 | Tennessee Department of Labor and Workforce Development |
| Connecticut (CT) | yes | 871 | 871 | 2010 | 2026-09-09 | 2026-09-15 | Connecticut Department of Labor |
| Nebraska (NE) | yes | 845 | 845 | 2010 | 2026-08-26 | 2026-09-15 | Nebraska Department of Labor |
| Colorado (CO) | yes | 838 | 830 | 2015 | 2026-09-10 | 2026-09-15 | Colorado Department of Labor and Employment |
| Kentucky (KY) | yes | 804 | 796 | 1998 | 2026-09-04 | 2026-09-15 | |
| Kansas (KS) | yes | 791 | 791 | 1998 | 2026-05-01 | 2026-09-15 | Kansas Department of Commerce |
| Arizona (AZ) | yes | 637 | 637 | 2010 | 2026-09-03 | 2026-09-14 | Arizona Department of Economic Security |
| Wisconsin (WI) | yes | 617 | 617 | 2020 | 2026-08-24 | 2026-09-15 | Wisconsin Department of Workforce Development |
| Nevada (NV) | yes | 613 | 613 | 2017 | 2026-06-29 | 2026-09-15 | |
| South Carolina (SC) | yes | 604 | 0 | — | 2026-08-28 | 2026-09-15 | |
| Hawaii (HI) | yes | 460 | 460 | 2019 | 2026-08-20 | 2026-09-15 | Workforce Development Hawaii |
| Minnesota (MN) | yes | 457 | 94 | 2021 | 2026-06-15 | 2026-09-15 | |
| Iowa (IA) | yes | 417 | 417 | 2011 | 2026-09-01 | 2026-09-15 | Iowa Workforce Development Department |
| Missouri (MO) | yes | 374 | 374 | 2019 | 2026-09-03 | 2026-09-15 | Missouri Office of Workforce Development |
| Massachusetts (MA) | yes | 294 | 293 | 2021 | 2026-08-31 | 2026-09-15 | |
| Georgia (GA) | yes | 284 | 284 | 2023 | 2026-09-14 | 2026-09-15 | Technical College System of Georgia (WorkSource Georgia) |
| Utah (UT) | yes | 282 | 278 | 2009 | 2026-08-13 | 2026-09-15 | Utah Department of Workforce Services |
| Oklahoma (OK) | yes | 220 | 220 | 2001 | 2026-08-17 | 2026-09-15 | Oklahoma Office of Workforces Development |
| Idaho (ID) | yes | 199 | 199 | 2009 | 2026-08-10 | 2026-09-15 | Idaho Department of Labor |
| District of Columbia (DC) | yes | 143 | 141 | 2017 | 2026-07-27 | 2026-09-15 | District of Columbia Department of Employment Services |
| Mississippi (MS) | yes | 136 | 125 | 2020 | 2026-05-11 | 2026-09-15 | Mississippi Department of Employment Security |
| Rhode Island (RI) | yes | 126 | 126 | 2009 | 2026-06-29 | 2026-09-15 | Rhode Island Department of Labor and Training |
| New Mexico (NM) | yes | 116 | 116 | 2016 | 2026-06-29 | 2026-09-15 | |
| Delaware (DE) | yes | 100 | 100 | 2007 | 2026-08-10 | 2026-09-15 | Delaware Department of Labor |
| Maine (ME) | yes | 86 | 86 | 2012 | 2026-09-09 | 2026-09-15 | Maine Department of Labor |
| South Dakota (SD) | yes | 80 | 80 | 2007 | 2026-08-10 | 2026-09-15 | South Dakota Department of Labor and Regulation |
| Vermont (VT) | yes | 70 | 70 | 2003 | 2026-06-17 | 2026-09-15 | Vermont Department of Labor |
| Alaska (AK) | yes | 66 | 66 | 2006 | 2026-07-06 | 2026-09-15 | Alaska Department of Labor and Workforce Development |
| West Virginia (WV) | yes | 58 | 58 | 2021 | 2026-08-19 | 2026-09-15 | |
| North Dakota (ND) | yes | 54 | 54 | 2015 | 2026-01-15 | 2026-09-14 | Job Service North Dakota |
| Montana (MT) | yes | 46 | 45 | 2015 | 2026-07-21 | 2026-09-15 | Montana Department of Labor and Industry |
| Louisiana (LA) | yes | 38 | 37 | 2025 | 2026-08-26 | 2026-09-15 | Louisiana Workforce Commission |
| Arkansas (AR) | no | 0 | 0 | — | — | — | Arkansas Division of Workforce Services |
| New Hampshire (NH) | no | 0 | 0 | — | — | — | New Hampshire Employment Security |
| Wyoming (WY) | no | 0 | 0 | — | — | — | Wyoming Department of Workforce Services |
Columns (data/warn_coverage_by_state.csv, 51 rows)
state,state_name— USPS code and name; DC included.publishes_public_list—trueif the state agency posts a public WARN notice list we read on every daily rebuild;falsefor the three that do not.notices_held— rows in the live archive for that state on 2026-09-16.dated_notices,undated_notices— how many carry a parseable notice date.dated + undated = notices_held; undated rows exist mostly in SC and PA and are kept, flagged, in the notice-level file.archive_start_year— year of the earliest dated notice we hold (see above).latest_notice_date,last_scraped— freshness, per state.portal_depth_note— filled for states whose archive starts in 2010 or later.agency,agency_url— the state office that receives WARN notices.finding— for publishing states, one line; for the three non-publishers, the dated search result and what secondary sources report.surveyed_on— the build date for publishing states; the search date for the three non-publishers.
Method
The 48 publishing rows are counted from the same daily build that produces the notice-level dataset (us-warn-act-layoffs-notices-daily): 48 state scrapers into one schema, employer names alias-merged, every row carrying its source URL. The three non-publishing rows are a manual survey: we searched each state's workforce-agency site and the open web on 2026-09-13, found no public list, and recorded what secondary sources report — as a report of what we found, not a legal conclusion. Nothing on this card is typed by hand; the card, the chart and the CSV are written from one in-memory result on every run, and the build fails if a statutory citation appears.
The same survey, as a page with the bar chart of the largest archives: https://approjects-warn-act-notices.static.hf.space/coverage.html. Scrapers and the coverage generator: https://github.com/APVentureEngine/warn-act-notices.
A layoff record you can audit, not just download
This dataset is one cut of a single daily rebuild: 61,320 US WARN Act layoff notices from 48 state agencies, 1988 to today, one schema, no login, no delay, CC BY 4.0. Snapshot as of 2026-09-16; the files above are rebuilt every day, so the live count is the truth.
Several projects publish a current WARN scrape and two of them carry more rows than we do. None of them publish what the records used to say:
- 616 observed changes to already-published notices, logged daily since 2026-08-31.
data/revisions.csvrecords every field that differed between two consecutive daily builds — employee counts, effective dates, notice types, company names — with the old value, the new value and the date we saw it. We publish the observation and not the cause: a change is equally explained by the agency amending the notice or by our own parser improving, and we do not guess which (seedata/revisions.README.txt). A scrape that starts tomorrow cannot backfill any of it; it only exists if someone was watching. - 6,799 notices whose state agency page no longer lists them. Agencies take notices down. We keep them, flagged as archive-only, so a count you ran last year still reconciles.
- Point-in-time employer identity. The ticker crosswalk resolves a filer to the company as it existed at the time of the notice — Kmart, Sears Holdings, Symantec — not to whatever is on today's ticker file.
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