How many EV charging stations are there in the US?

The national count

The reference count comes from the Alternative Fuels Data Center (AFDC), the station registry run for the US Department of Energy. In the registry snapshot ChargeCensus loaded on October 5, 2026, there were 82,579 public charging stations marked available, with 260,442 charging ports between them.

AFDC's own state summary table, checked on October 9, 2026, showed 82,870 station locations and 262,226 charging ports. The small gap is the four days between the two reads: networks report new sites daily, so the number moves every week.

Those figures leave out three groups that are sometimes added to headline numbers:

• Private stations (fleet depots, employee-only lots): about 5,400 more in the same snapshot
• Temporarily unavailable public stations: about 1,700
• Planned stations that have not opened: about 250

Residential chargers are not in the registry at all, so no public figure covers home charging.

Stations versus ports

The two numbers answer different questions. AFDC defines a station location as a physical place with one or more charging ports, and a port as the equipment that charges one vehicle at a time.

An average US public station has about three ports, but the range is wide. A Level 2 post in a library lot may have one port; a Tesla Supercharger site averages more than 12. When a news story says the US has "over 250,000 chargers," it is counting ports. When it says "over 80,000," it is counting sites.

For gauging how many cars can charge at once, ports are the better measure. For gauging how many places a driver can stop, stations are.

How the ports split by charging level

Of the 260,442 public ports in the October 2026 snapshot:

• Level 2: 182,229 ports, about 70%. AFDC describes Level 2 as roughly 25 miles of range per hour of charging.
• DC fast: 77,515 ports, about 30%. AFDC puts DC fast charging at roughly 100 to 200+ miles of range in 30 minutes.
• Level 1: 698 ports, under 1%.

15,691 stations, about one in five, have at least one DC fast port. The DC fast share has been rising: in the registry's open dates, DC fast ports added per year grew from about 4,300 at sites opened in 2020 to about 16,900 at sites opened in 2025. Open dates are self-reported, so treat year-by-year figures as approximate. The fastest-growing ranking tracks this by state.

Which states have the most

California dominates: 20,085 public stations and 68,693 ports, about 24% of US stations. The next largest counts in the October 2026 snapshot:

1. New York: 5,632 stations, 21,683 ports
2. Massachusetts: 4,558 stations, 11,762 ports
3. Florida: 4,389 stations, 15,129 ports
4. Texas: 3,776 stations, 12,773 ports
5. Washington: 3,163 stations, 9,020 ports
6. Colorado: 2,886 stations, 7,863 ports
7. Georgia: 2,375 stations, 7,600 ports

Station and port rankings do not always agree. Massachusetts has more stations than Florida or Texas, but both of those states have more ports and far more DC fast ports, because their sites are larger. Alaska (70 stations), North Dakota (108) and South Dakota (116) have the fewest.

Every state's count, its networks and its largest sites are on the state station pages; the DC fast ranking orders states by fast-charging ports.

Why different sources give different numbers

Several things make published counts disagree, even when they start from the same registry:

• Public only or public plus private. Adding private sites raises the count by about 6%.
• Available only or all statuses. Including temporarily unavailable and planned sites adds roughly 2,000.
• US only or US plus Canada. AFDC's charging-network page lists port totals for networks operating in the US and/or Canada, so its per-network figures run higher than US-only totals.
• Date. The registry imports networked station data daily from network APIs, and non-networked stations are added by hand and re-verified every other year. A figure from six months ago can be thousands of stations out of date.

When comparing numbers, check which of these choices each source made before treating the difference as real growth or decline.

Finding the stations near a specific place

National totals say little about a particular trip or address. Every station in the registry has its own page on ChargeCensus with its network, connector types, port counts by level, listed pricing and access. Start from a state on the stations index, or from a city on the EV charging by city pages, which list each city's largest sites and the networks that operate there.