How Many Traffic Cameras Are in the US?
There is no official national count, so we built one. As of August 30, 2026, this directory tracks 15,619 official traffic-monitoring cameras across 26 states, published by 10 public agencies (9 of them state DOT and 511 systems), and we verify every feed with our own rolling HTTP checks. Every number on this page is measured from those feeds, not quoted from anyone else.
Scope note: these are monitoring cameras, the DOT webcams that show road and weather conditions. Enforcement cameras (speed and red-light) are a different device with no public feed, so nobody outside the operating agencies can count or verify them, and they are not included here.
*Live share is computed over the 11,461 cameras in states our checker can reliably measure; see the camera uptime report for the full methodology and per-state reliability rankings.
The largest state camera networks
Ranked by fleet size. Some state DOTs publish cameras through a direct API, others through their official 511 traveler-information platform; both are the state's own network.
| Agency | State | Cameras |
|---|---|---|
| Georgia 511 | Georgia | 4,043 |
| Caltrans CWWP2 | California | 3,438 |
| Utah 511 | Utah | 2,074 |
| WSDOT Traveler Information API | Washington | 1,702 |
| Iowa DOT | Iowa | 1,247 |
| Nevada 511 | Nevada | 652 |
| Arizona 511 | Arizona | 644 |
| Wisconsin 511 | Wisconsin | 491 |
| Alaska 511 | Alaska | 126 |
Traffic cameras by state
Camera counts cover every feed we track in the state, including federal and other non-DOT public sources. Live share appears only for states our checker can reliably measure; for the rest we show the count and withhold the percentage rather than publish a number we do not trust.
| State | Cameras | Verified live share |
|---|---|---|
| Georgia | 4,043 | — |
| California | 3,442 | 76.1% |
| Utah | 2,090 | 100% |
| Washington | 1,710 | 50.5% |
| Iowa | 1,247 | 64.5% |
| Alaska | 1,074 | 92.9% |
| Nevada | 660 | 88.8% |
| Arizona | 644 | 86.2% |
| Wisconsin | 491 | 100% |
| Hawaii | 103 | 87.4% |
| Oregon | 16 | — |
| Idaho | 12 | — |
| Vermont | 12 | — |
| Alabama | 8 | — |
| Florida | 8 | — |
| Illinois | 8 | — |
| New Mexico | 8 | — |
| New York | 8 | — |
| Texas | 7 | — |
| Arkansas | 4 | — |
| Kansas | 4 | — |
| Mississippi | 4 | — |
| Montana | 4 | — |
| New Jersey | 4 | — |
| Pennsylvania | 4 | — |
| Wyoming | 4 | — |
Where these numbers come from
- Every camera in the count comes from an official public source: a state DOT, a 511 traveler-information system, or a federal program. We do not count private or unofficial cameras.
- Counts include only active cameras; retired and delisted feeds are excluded the day they are removed.
- Every feed is health-checked on a rolling schedule around the clock, which is how the live-share figures are measured. Full methodology on the camera uptime report.
- The total is a floor, not a ceiling: states and agencies we have not yet added are missing from it, so the true national number is higher.
- This page regenerates continuously from the live database; there is no annual snapshot to go stale.
Cite this data
Journalists, bloggers, and researchers are welcome to use these figures with credit. Suggested citation:
LiveTrafficCam, “US DOT Traffic Camera Statistics”, retrieved August 30, 2026, https://livetrafficcam.com/reports/traffic-camera-statistics/
The full dataset behind this page is available as JSON. For state-level detail, historical pulls, or questions, contact us.
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