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MileCheck Highway Report

MileCheck Highway Report, October 2026

by MileCheck · November 2, 2026

What road feeds published in October 2026 across all 50 US states, British Columbia, Alberta and Manitoba. The report also covers border waits, Seattle drawbridge openings and wildfire records, from separate sources.

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The month on a map

Each dot is one alert a feed posted in October. Blank areas can mean a feed does not post that kind of alert, so these maps show where alerts were posted, not every crash or closure.

Crashes

Road feeds in 43 states and provinces posted 2,329 crash alerts in October. Each agency decides which crashes go on its feed, and some post none. Your state's page shows which routes had the most.

Closures and roadwork

Road feeds posted 5,369 closure alerts and 23,886 roadwork alerts in October. Your state's page shows which routes had the most.

Border waits

Waits to enter the United States in standard passenger lanes, October, from hourly U.S. Customs and Border Protection readings. Averages use every valid hourly reading. Dates are local to each crossing.

Live waits are at milecheckapp.com/borders.

Seattle drawbridges

Seattle's drawbridges opened 706 times in October.

Live status is on the drawbridge map.

Wildfires

The national wildfire feed (NIFC, plus the BC Wildfire Service) listed 226 fire records as of Oct. 31, 4 PM Pacific in the states and provinces we track, after prescribed burns were removed. 100 of them were under an acre. 44 were 1,000 acres or more, and 21 of those were not fully contained.

Thank you to the firefighters and crews who worked these fires all season.

Live fire perimeters and the closures near them are at milecheckapp.com/fire.

Winter closures

Some mountain roads close every winter. These states have them, and each state page lists the roads, their usual closing and reopening times, and the agency source. We update the list each month through winter.

• Alaska
• California
• Colorado
• Idaho
• Montana
• Oregon
• Utah
• Washington
• Wyoming

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By state

Each state and province has its own page with the same measures.

• Alabama
• Alaska
• Alberta
• Arizona
• Arkansas
• British Columbia
• California
• Colorado
• Connecticut
• Delaware
• Florida
• Georgia
• Hawaii
• Idaho
• Illinois
• Indiana
• Iowa
• Kansas
• Kentucky
• Louisiana
• Maine
• Manitoba
• Maryland
• Massachusetts
• Michigan
• Minnesota
• Mississippi
• Missouri
• Montana
• Nebraska
• Nevada
• New Hampshire
• New Jersey
• New Mexico
• New York
• North Carolina
• North Dakota
• Ohio
• Oklahoma
• Oregon
• Pennsylvania
• Rhode Island
• South Carolina
• South Dakota
• Tennessee
• Texas
• Utah
• Vermont
• Virginia
• Washington
• West Virginia
• Wisconsin
• Wyoming

What's new at MileCheck

New: the MileCheck dash display

• A small screen for your dash that shows your mile marker. Join the early access list.

In the app

• You can now navigate to a mile marker on the right side of the highway, so EMS crews don't lose time on the wrong side. Watch the video
• iPhone version 1.10.44 and Android version 1.10.40 are in the stores.

Cameras

• Camera pages and maps now have a Map options menu with closure and wildfire layers and weather radar.
• Crystal Mountain's summit camera and the Paradise camera at Mount Rainier are on the map.

Roads and closures

• A snowplow map for 14 US states and 3 Canadian provinces, with each truck's last reported spot.
• A map of 20,031 open public railroad crossings at road level on state highway systems, from FRA records.
• A cell coverage map for highways in WA, OR, ID, MT, NV, WY and UT, from carrier-reported FCC data.
• New pass pages for Coquihalla, Sea-to-Sky, Rogers Pass, Kootenay Pass, Wolf Creek, Monarch, Mt Hood, Santiam, White Pass and more.
• Pages for 63 ski areas, with the roads in, their cameras and the snow forecast.
• Late-November driving guides for I-5, I-40, I-70, I-80 and I-90, ahead of Thanksgiving.
• A current storms page, updated twice a day.

In other languages

• How to pump gas and how to charge an electric car, in Spanish, French, Portuguese, Vietnamese, Chinese and Punjabi.

For businesses

• One page for partners, with the same facts and prices on every business page.
• A free 14-day API test key, 100 calls a day. Live border waits are in the Business plan.
• Corridor display boards, starting with US 2 over Stevens Pass. For stores · For advertisers

Built from MileCheck's archive of state DOT road feeds. A new Highway Report comes out at the start of every month.