Ranking · WARN Act records

States Ranked by WARN Act Activity

Compare where recorded WARN Act filings occur most often, separating filing frequency from the scale of workers affected.

Compiled by PlainLayoffs Editorial · June 13, 2026

2,358

Most filings

Texas

#1 state

8,799

Notices tracked

According to the U.S. Department of Labor, every U.S. state is ranked here by the number of WARN Act mass-layoff notices on file, a measure of how often layoffs happen, distinct from how many workers they hit. High counts tend to track large, industrially diverse economies like California, Texas, and New York, but they also reflect each state's reporting rigor: states with their own "mini-WARN" laws and active rapid-response units capture smaller events that the federal 100-employee, 500-worker thresholds would miss. Read this alongside the workers-affected ranking, many small filings and a few giant ones tell very different stories about a state's job market.

Source: WARN Act notices filed with state workforce agencies and aggregated from state-published WARN databases WARN Act notices filed with state workforce agencies and aggregated from state-published WARN databases

Every figure on PlainLayoffs is rendered directly from public WARN Act filings and state workforce agency records, no number is typed in by an editor. State totals are summed directly from WARN Act filings. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of June 2026. A WARN filing is a legally required notice, not a judgment of a company's management or financial health; rankings here reflect filed notice volume only.