How Many Warehouses Does Amazon Have? (2026 Stats)

Amazon operates about 1,200 logistics facilities, and only ~350 are warehouses

Amazon runs roughly 1,200 logistics facilities worldwide, but only about 350 of them are fulfillment centers — the big inventory-holding buildings most people picture when they say "Amazon warehouse." The rest of the network is sortation centers, last-mile delivery stations, air hubs, and inbound cross-docks (MWPVL-derived tracking, 2025–2026).

The only number Amazon itself publishes is measured in square feet, not buildings. Its FY2025 10-K reports 751.2 million square feet of owned and leased space as of December 31, 2025. That covers more ground than the island of Manhattan. There is no official facility count, and the canonical independent tracker, MWPVL International, stopped releasing public network data in 2025. Every count you see today is an estimate.

~1,200 logistics facilities worldwide across every building type: fulfillment, sortation, delivery, air, and cross-dock (MWPVL-derived trackers, 2025–2026)
~350 fulfillment centers globally, roughly 150–200 in the US depending on the size threshold you apply (MWPVL-derived, 2025)
751.2 million sq ft of owned and leased real estate: North America 506.6M, International 187.8M, AWS 56.8M (Amazon FY2025 10-K)
88.6% of that footprint is warehouse space, about 26.1 square miles of it (Capital One Shopping Research, July 2026)
~550 delivery stations and ~180 sortation centers worldwide (MWPVL-derived, 2025)
1,576,000 full-time and part-time employees as of December 31, 2025 (FY2025 10-K)
More than 1 million robots deployed across the network (Amazon, 2025)
6.3 billion US packages delivered in 2024, which is 28.2% of all US parcel volume (Capital One Shopping Research)
$15 billion expansion plan covering roughly 80 new facilities, including 200 rural delivery stations (Bloomberg, April 2025; FreightWaves, 2025)

Four ways to count Amazon's warehouses

Ask "how many warehouses does Amazon have" and you'll get answers ranging from 350 to more than 1,200. None of them are wrong. They're answering different questions.

The strictest definition counts only fulfillment centers, the buildings that store inventory and pick orders. The broadest counts every node in the logistics network, including delivery stations that hold a package for a few hours before a van takes it away. And Amazon's own disclosure skips buildings entirely: the 10-K reports square footage, lumping warehouses in with offices, grocery stores, and AWS data centers.

Approach	What it counts	Typical figure
Strict warehouse count	Fulfillment centers only	~350 global / ~150–200 US
Whole-network count	FCs + sortation + delivery stations + air hubs + cross-docks	~1,200+ facilities
Corporate real estate	Every owned and leased sq ft in the 10-K	751.2M sq ft
Seller-facing view	Active FBA facility codes in US directories	100+ US codes

Why the canonical source went dark

MWPVL stopped publishing in 2025

For years, MWPVL International's facility-by-facility database was the number everyone cited. In 2025 the firm stopped updating its public pages, citing plagiarism of its research. Since then, every published facility count traces back to MWPVL's last public snapshot or to private data. The square-footage figures in this article come straight from Amazon's audited 10-K instead.

What the 1,200 facilities actually are

Amazon's network works like a funnel. Imported inventory lands at inbound cross-docks, gets stowed and picked at fulfillment centers, is sorted by destination at sortation centers, and makes the final hop from delivery stations to your door. Air hubs bridge the long-distance gaps. Only the fulfillment-center layer is a "warehouse" in the traditional sense of holding inventory for more than a few hours.

Facility type	Approx. count	Role in the network
Delivery stations	~550	Last-mile handoff to vans and DSP drivers
Fulfillment centers	~350	Store inventory, pick and pack orders
Sortation centers	~180	Sort packed orders by destination region
Inbound cross-docks	~45	Receive import containers and feed FCs
Air hubs and gateways	~30	Long-haul air freight for Prime speed

Source: MWPVL-derived tracking (2025). MWPVL no longer publishes public updates, so treat the splits as directional rather than exact. The one hard check available: they sum to roughly the ~1,200 total that independent trackers still report.

Amazon by the square foot

The audited version of this question lives in Item 2 of Amazon's annual report. As of December 31, 2025:

Segment	Leased sq ft	Owned sq ft	Total
North America	481.2M	25.4M	506.6M
International	174.5M	13.3M	187.8M
AWS	28.4M	28.5M	56.8M
Total	684.0M	67.2M	751.2M

Source: Amazon FY2025 Form 10-K. Figures include offices, physical stores, and data centers alongside warehouse space; Capital One Shopping Research puts the warehouse share at 88.6%, or roughly 665 million sq ft.

A few ways to make 751.2 million sq ft concrete:

It's about 27 square miles, more ground than the island of Manhattan (22.8 sq mi)
It works out to ~477 sq ft per employee, roughly the size of a two-car garage each
91% of it is leased, not owned. Amazon rents its empire, which is why it can shed or add capacity so fast
The single largest building, SBD3 in Ontario, California, spans ~4.1 million sq ft across five floors

Definition note

If you sell on Amazon, your number is smaller

FBA sellers only ever touch the fulfillment-center layer. US FBA directories track 100+ active facility codes, and your inventory typically spreads across a fraction of those. The 1,200-facility figure describes Amazon's delivery machine, not the set of buildings that hold your stock.

Five years, 327 million new square feet

At the end of 2020, Amazon's 10-K reported 424.2 million sq ft of owned and leased space. Five years later the figure is 751.2 million. That's 327 million new square feet, a 77% expansion, averaging roughly 179,000 sq ft of net new space every single day for five years. Picture Amazon opening a Walmart Supercenter's worth of floor space daily and you're about right.

The growth wasn't linear. After over-building through the pandemic, Amazon closed, canceled, or delayed more than 123 buildings in 2022–2023 (MWPVL). By April 2025 it had swung back to expansion: a reported $15 billion plan covering roughly 80 new facilities (Bloomberg), plus 200 rural delivery stations intended to bring faster delivery to 4,000 small-town communities (FreightWaves). Headcount followed the same curve, from 1,298,000 employees at the end of 2020 to 1,576,000 at the end of 2025.

Data caveat

What's audited and what's estimated

Square footage, employee counts, and store counts come from SEC filings and are audited. Facility counts by type are not: they're triangulated from MWPVL's last public data, MWPVL-derived trackers, and trade press. When you cite this article, the honest framing is "roughly 1,200 facilities" or "751.2 million sq ft," not a false-precision building count.

Common questions about Amazon's warehouse network

How many warehouses does Amazon have in the US?

Roughly 150–200 fulfillment centers, depending on the size threshold applied, within a US network of 600+ logistics sites of all types. The North America segment accounts for 506.6 million sq ft, about two-thirds of Amazon's global footprint.

How many Amazon warehouses are there worldwide?

About 350 fulfillment centers, inside a total network of roughly 1,200 logistics facilities spread across at least 14 countries.

What is the largest Amazon warehouse?

SBD3 in Ontario, California: about 4.1 million sq ft of floor space across five stories, making it one of the largest industrial buildings in the world.

What's the difference between a fulfillment center, a sortation center, and a delivery station?

Fulfillment centers store inventory and pick orders. Sortation centers sort packed orders by destination. Delivery stations stage packages for the final hop to your door. Inventory lives in the first; the other two hold a package for hours, not weeks.

Does Amazon publish an official warehouse count?

No. Amazon discloses square footage in its 10-K but has never published a running facility count. The best independent tracker, MWPVL International, took its data private in 2025, which is why every published number is now an estimate.

How many robots does Amazon have in its warehouses?

Amazon deployed its one-millionth robot in 2025. Robotics now assist with roughly three-quarters of orders in the US network.

Is Amazon still building warehouses?

Yes. After the 2022–2023 pullback, Amazon returned to expansion with a reported $15 billion, ~80-facility plan and a rural delivery-station push targeting 4,000 communities.

What the number actually tells you

If you need one citable figure, use the definition that matches your claim: ~1,200 logistics facilities for the size of the delivery machine, ~350 fulfillment centers for actual warehouses, or 751.2 million sq ft if you want a number Amazon has signed its name to. Writers who blend those three produce the confused "350 to 1,200" spread you see across the web.

For ecommerce operators, the more useful numbers are the quiet ones. Amazon leases 91% of its space, added the equivalent of a supercenter a day for five years, and still walked away from 123 buildings the moment demand cooled. Capacity, to Amazon, is disposable. That density is what lets FBA set the delivery-speed expectations every other seller gets measured against.

It's also the standard independent 3PLs compete with, and the math is less lopsided than 1,200 buildings suggests. A brand with inventory in two or three well-placed warehouses can hit 2-day ground coverage of most of the US population. Amazon needed 751 million square feet to set that expectation; meeting it takes three good dots on a map.

How we built this

Square footage, employee counts, and growth figures come from Amazon's FY2020 and FY2025 Form 10-K filings and are exact as reported. Facility counts by type are triangulated from MWPVL International's last public network data and MWPVL-derived industry trackers (2025–2026), rounded and flagged as approximate. Derived statistics (daily growth rate, per-employee space, Manhattan comparison) are our calculations from those inputs: 327M sq ft added over 1,826 days, 751.2M sq ft over 1,576,000 employees, and 751.2M sq ft converted to 26.9 sq mi against Manhattan's 22.8 sq mi land area. Package-volume and warehouse-share figures are from Capital One Shopping Research (updated July 2026).