US traffic camera availability, month by month
Each month we check thousands of public DOT traffic cameras and record how many respond. This report tracks how US camera networks change over time.
Data measured November 1, 2026 · Roadze
November 2026
- Cameras listed
- 53,415
- Checked
- 49,984
- Not answering
- 7,425 (14.9%)
The percentage refers to the cameras we checked that month, not to every camera in the country. A state that was not sampled is excluded instead of being counted as having no failures, because reporting an unchecked state as having none would be inaccurate.
Change since the previous month
Across the states measured in both months, the share of cameras not answering changed by -2.0 pp.
Worse than the previous month
| State | Before | Now | Change |
|---|---|---|---|
| New York | 32.7% | 75.1% | +42.4 pp |
| Kentucky | 2.9% | 8.0% | +5.1 pp |
| Minnesota | 0.0% | 1.3% | +1.3 pp |
| Vermont | 6.7% | 7.9% | +1.1 pp |
| New Hampshire | 2.2% | 3.3% | +1.1 pp |
Better than the previous month
| State | Before | Now | Change |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oklahoma | 99.6% | 1.7% | -97.8 pp |
| Maine | 36.6% | 3.3% | -33.2 pp |
| Florida | 27.8% | 9.6% | -18.1 pp |
| Georgia | 45.9% | 30.2% | -15.7 pp |
| Washington | 24.0% | 15.1% | -8.9 pp |
By state, November 2026
A few states publish video only, with no still image to retrieve. Those are checked by requesting their video playlist. Three states, Florida, North Carolina and Arkansas, refuse every request from outside their own website, so we cannot determine whether their cameras work. They are excluded from this table instead of being shown as having no failures: being unable to check is not the same as finding none.
| State | Cameras | Checked | Not answering | Share |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| New York | 3,901 | 3,901 | 2,930 | 75.1% |
| Massachusetts | 310 | 306 | 147 | 48.0% |
| Idaho | 647 | 647 | 216 | 33.4% |
| Georgia | 6,154 | 6,153 | 1,856 | 30.2% |
| Alaska | 148 | 148 | 42 | 28.4% |
| Nevada | 661 | 661 | 160 | 24.2% |
| Hawaii | 361 | 361 | 70 | 19.4% |
| North Carolina | 1,216 | 1,216 | 211 | 17.4% |
| Washington | 2,362 | 2,337 | 353 | 15.1% |
| Arizona | 644 | 644 | 84 | 13.0% |
| Michigan | 806 | 806 | 90 | 11.2% |
| Florida | 4,591 | 4,591 | 443 | 9.6% |
| Oregon | 1,177 | 1,177 | 102 | 8.7% |
| Pennsylvania | 1,562 | 1,562 | 135 | 8.6% |
| Kentucky | 250 | 237 | 19 | 8.0% |
| Vermont | 89 | 89 | 7 | 7.9% |
| Virginia | 1,662 | 1,662 | 107 | 6.4% |
| Indiana | 748 | 747 | 38 | 5.1% |
| Colorado | 984 | 981 | 49 | 5.0% |
| Tennessee | 669 | 669 | 25 | 3.7% |
| Maine | 90 | 90 | 3 | 3.3% |
| New Hampshire | 183 | 183 | 6 | 3.3% |
| Ohio | 1,159 | 1,152 | 37 | 3.2% |
| North Dakota | 814 | 810 | 26 | 3.2% |
| Utah | 2,088 | 2,088 | 59 | 2.8% |
| Illinois | 3,771 | 3,771 | 91 | 2.4% |
| Kansas | 504 | 497 | 11 | 2.2% |
| Connecticut | 347 | 347 | 7 | 2.0% |
| Missouri | 871 | 850 | 17 | 2.0% |
| Louisiana | 336 | 336 | 6 | 1.8% |
| Alabama | 629 | 628 | 11 | 1.8% |
| Oklahoma | 464 | 464 | 8 | 1.7% |
| Minnesota | 1,538 | 1,516 | 19 | 1.3% |
| South Carolina | 798 | 798 | 10 | 1.3% |
| Nebraska | 341 | 338 | 4 | 1.2% |
| Maryland | 553 | 550 | 6 | 1.1% |
| South Dakota | 728 | 728 | 5 | 0.7% |
| Wisconsin | 461 | 461 | 2 | 0.4% |
| California | 3,610 | 3,608 | 13 | 0.4% |
| Iowa | 863 | 755 | 0 | 0.0% |
| Delaware | 367 | 367 | 0 | 0.0% |
| Mississippi | 464 | 326 | 0 | 0.0% |
| Montana | 426 | 426 | 0 | 0.0% |
Every measurement
| Month | Cameras | Checked | Not answering |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-11 | 53,415 | 49,984 | 7,425 (14.9%) |
| 2026-10 | 52,832 | 49,470 | 8,354 (16.9%) |
| 2026-09 | 51,067 | 12,375 | 1,549 (12.5%) |
| 2026-08 | 50,006 | 6,800 | 744 (10.9%) |
| 2026-07 | 49,659 | 6,580 | 671 (10.2%) |
Cite a specific month
How we measured
Once a month we record how many public traffic cameras each state transportation department lists, how many we were able to check and how many returned no usable image. The measurement is taken the first time the site runs in a new month, so every month is measured at the same point.
A camera counts as not answering when it returns a placeholder notice instead of the road, or an image identical to another camera's, since two different cameras cannot show exactly the same pixels. Agencies continue to list these cameras as working, which is why this figure is useful.
Where a state publishes video and no still image, we request its video playlist. A missing playlist counts as not answering; a refused one does not. Some agencies refuse every outside request whether the camera works or not, and counting that as a failure would mark thousands of working cameras as out of service. When we cannot determine the status, we state it instead of estimating.
We do not compare two months measured with different detection methods. When detection improves, it finds failures that were previously missed, and the figures rise without any additional camera having failed. Each measurement records the method that produced it, and the comparison above is not calculated across a change of method.
The cameras we check are selected by a stable hash of their identifier, not by name. Agencies include the location in the name (Georgia's cameras are labeled by county), so taking the first two hundred alphabetically covered five counties out of one hundred and seventeen. The same sample is followed every month, so a change reflects the cameras and not a different selection.
No measurement is deleted. The value of this page is the series, which cannot be reconstructed afterwards.
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