U.S. government surplus · live, all 50 states
What is your state government selling?
Every state and county sells off what it no longer needs - cruisers, office chairs, seized jewelry, the occasional fire truck or foreclosed house. Right now there are 62,233 lots up for auction across the country, worth $704M in current bids. Find your state below and see what it's putting on the block - and the single weirdest thing it's trying to sell.
Darker = more. Shading US states by how much each state has on the auction block right now. HoverTap a state for its stats.
America's weirdest gov lot2000 Pierce Quantum 61-foot aerial ladder fire truck with hydraulic boom.
Florida · novelty 9/10 · see the full listing →
Find your state
The U.S. government has 62,233 lots up for auction right now, worth $704M in current bids. Pick a state to see what it's selling.
Top states by number of lots
Live data from 62,233 active U.S. government surplus lots across every major official platform (GovDeals, GSA, HUD, Public Surplus, GovPlanet and more). Sold-price medians are the Surplus Price Index state figures, from completed sales since May 2026. Source: govauctions.app
The map is lopsided for a reason: the biggest states run the biggest fleets. Indiana alone has 5,084 lots up right now. If you switch the shading to weirdness, the leaderboard scrambles.
All 50 states, ranked by lots for sale
The same figures the map shows on hover. Typical bid is the median current bid; median sold is the Surplus Price Index figure for completed sales since May 2026.
Method
Counts, values and the per-state lots are drawn live from every currently-active U.S. government surplus listing we track, grouped by the lot's location state. “Total value” sums current bids (a floor, not a forecast); “typical price” is the median current bid. “Median sold price” is the Surplus Price Index figure for completed sales in that state since May 2026, and is left blank where the Index has too few sales to publish one. “Weirdness” counts lots an automated novelty scorer flagged as genuinely strange, and the highlighted weird lot is each state's top-scoring one. “Biggest bargain” is the live lot bid furthest below its comparable-sales value.
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Cite this
As of 2026-10-05, 62,233 US government surplus lots were up for auction across all 50 states, carrying $704M in current bids.
- Sample
- 62,233 lots
- As of
- 2026-10-05
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Method. Count and summed current bid of every active US government surplus lot we aggregate from the official platforms agencies sell on (GovDeals, GSA, HUD, Public Surplus, GovPlanet and others), snapshotted on the date shown. Current bids, not final sale prices.
Cite as. GovAuctions.app (2026). As of 2026-10-05, 62,233 US government surplus lots were up for auction across all 50 states, carrying $704M in current bids. https://govauctions.app/research/what-your-state-is-selling
Free to use with attribution. The machine-readable version of this and every other number we publish, each with its sample size and method, is at /research/facts.json. Questions about the data are welcome via contact.