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WARN notices by state: what each state’s record shows

Employers that must give notice of a plant closing or mass layoff file a WARN notice with the state, and each state publishes what it receives. In the last 12 months we have read 2,561 notices from 48 states, naming 285,025 workers. Open a state for every notice with its source, or download the data.

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Notices filed in the last 12 months

One row per state with at least one notice. Notices are filings, one row each as the state published them. Workers named is the number the notices give, a floor, because some states leave it out. Where a state has its own WARN law the row says so, and the WARN Act guide explains it with sources.

WARN notices filed in the last 12 months, by state
StateNoticesWorkers namedLatest filingData
Californiaown WARN law38321,034Oct 21, 2026CSV
New Yorkown WARN law16712,258Oct 2, 2026CSV
Texas14723,025Oct 7, 2026CSV
Washingtonown WARN law14633,771Oct 27, 2026CSV
New Jerseyown WARN law11913,930Oct 1, 2026CSV
Florida11310,158Oct 16, 2026CSV
Illinoisown WARN law11219,800Oct 13, 2026CSV
Maryland1107,807Oct 23, 2026CSV
Georgia9012,801Oct 22, 2026CSV
Iowa873,331Oct 13, 2026CSV
Pennsylvania8012,435Oct 27, 2026CSV
Ohio758,959Oct 26, 2026CSV
Virginia708,549Oct 7, 2026CSV
North Carolina686,789Oct 23, 2026CSV
Arizona653,129Oct 5, 2026CSV
Michigan6410,187Oct 23, 2026CSV
Tennessee608,365Oct 20, 2026CSV
Wisconsin564,158Oct 13, 2026CSV
Colorado475,735Oct 8, 2026CSV
South Carolina425,197Oct 18, 2026CSV
Idaho38651Sep 17, 2026CSV
Hawaii37–Oct 15, 2026CSV
Missouri373,151Oct 2, 2026CSV
Indiana345,390Oct 5, 2026CSV
Kentucky344,508Oct 16, 2026CSV
Alabama312,884Oct 20, 2026CSV
Minnesota28–Oct 19, 2026CSV
Nevada253,042Oct 1, 2026CSV
Oregon242,294Oct 20, 2026CSV
Connecticut233,116Oct 21, 2026CSV
Massachusetts192,577Oct 20, 2026CSV
Utah182,358Sep 23, 2026CSV
District of Columbia173,122Sep 14, 2026CSV
Louisiana162,119Sep 15, 2026CSV
Oklahoma13–Aug 17, 2026CSV
West Virginia9–Aug 19, 2026CSV
Maine8279Oct 12, 2026CSV
Nebraska84,494Aug 26, 2026CSV
Vermont8729Oct 20, 2026CSV
Kansas6151May 1, 2026CSV
Rhode Island610,723Oct 8, 2026CSV
Montana5176Jul 21, 2026CSV
Delaware4319Oct 6, 2026CSV
South Dakota487Aug 10, 2026CSV
Mississippi3926Apr 14, 2026CSV
New Mexico3304Sep 15, 2026CSV
Alaska1160Jul 6, 2026CSV
North Dakota147Jan 15, 2026CSV

Coverage: no notices from the last 12 months for Arkansas, New Hampshire, Wyoming. Some of these states publish no list online, some publish in a form we cannot read yet, and some had no qualifying layoffs.

How we count

Every figure on the layoff pages uses one of these units, and says which. The counts below come from the same rows as the tables and the downloadable file, as of Oct 27, 2026.

Filing
One row in a state labor department’s WARN list. A state may file one row per site, so one employer can have several filings on one day. /data counts filings.
Layoff
Every filing by one employer, in one state, with one notice date, counted once. The tracker at /layoffs counts layoffs, so its totals are lower than the number of filings.
Reported layoff
A layoff from the press, layoffs.fyi or an announcement that has a U.S. state and no state filing by the same employer within 45 days. It is labelled “reported” wherever it is listed and it is not a WARN notice.
Workers named
The number of employees a notice or report gives. Some states leave it out, so the figure is a floor, never a count of everyone laid off.
Not counted
Announcements with no U.S. state (a company’s global cuts, a foreign government) and rows a person has dismissed. They are not U.S. layoffs, so no total here includes them.
Counts, same rows, different units
WhatCountWorkers named
Filings, last 24 months (since Mar 25, 2025): the downloadable file3,311368,455
Layoffs in 2026: state filings and reported layoffs with a U.S. state, once per employer, state and date2,054304,018
Of the layoffs above, rows from the press or layoffs.fyi (raw rows, before grouping)216111,455
Not counted: 2026 announcements with no U.S. state130337,448

Use and cite this data

Free to use, including commercially, under CC BY 4.0 with a link back. The full record is on the data page as CSV and JSON, and the latest notices are on the layoff tracker.

NextChapter layoff tracker, WARN Act notices collected from state labor departments. launchyournextchapter.com/layoffs