Fiber internet expansion by state since 2022

Maine added fiber faster than any other state between June 30, 2022 and June 30, 2026: the share of its homes and businesses where a provider reports fiber to the premises changed by +48.4 percentage points. Hawaii (+41.7 percentage points), Wyoming (+41.3 percentage points), New Hampshire (+39.6 percentage points) and Vermont (+38.9 percentage points) complete the top five. The smallest gains were in the District of Columbia (+0.9 percentage points), Rhode Island (+6.7 percentage points) and New Jersey (+8.1 percentage points). The US as a whole rose by 25.4 percentage points; the median state changed by +28.5 percentage points¹. Figures come from the FCC National Broadband Map, latest release as of June 30, 2026 in the file revision of November 10, 2026.

Maine48.4 pts

Hawaii41.7 pts

Wyoming41.3 pts

New Hampshire39.6 pts

Vermont38.9 pts

Louisiana36.3 pts

Oklahoma35.7 pts

Kansas35.0 pts

Connecticut34.7 pts

Alabama34.2 pts

Utah34.1 pts

Mississippi34.0 pts

Arkansas33.2 pts

Iowa33.0 pts

West Virginia33.0 pts

North Carolina32.4 pts

Colorado31.7 pts

South Carolina31.3 pts

Missouri31.2 pts

Indiana30.4 pts

Wisconsin30.3 pts

Florida30.2 pts

Georgia29.9 pts

Tennessee28.9 pts

Texas28.8 pts

Ohio28.5 pts

Minnesota28.2 pts

Kentucky28.1 pts

Nebraska27.3 pts

Arizona27.2 pts

Michigan25.9 pts

United States25.4 pts

Illinois23.9 pts

Montana23.5 pts

South Dakota22.9 pts

Nevada22.2 pts

Virginia22.0 pts

North Dakota21.3 pts

New Mexico19.2 pts

Pennsylvania18.7 pts

New York18.1 pts

Idaho17.3 pts

Oregon16.1 pts

California13.8 pts

Maryland12.8 pts

Washington11.3 pts

Alaska10.9 pts

Massachusetts10.7 pts

Delaware10.0 pts

New Jersey8.1 pts

Rhode Island6.7 pts

District of Columbia0.9 pts

Source: FCC, National Broadband Map, data as of June 30, 2026. FCC file revision of November 10, 2026. Shares are of broadband serviceable locations (homes and businesses), not people.

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State	Fiber available: change since June 30, 2022
Maine	48.4 pts
Hawaii	41.7 pts
Wyoming	41.3 pts
New Hampshire	39.6 pts
Vermont	38.9 pts
Louisiana	36.3 pts
Oklahoma	35.7 pts
Kansas	35.0 pts
Connecticut	34.7 pts
Alabama	34.2 pts
Utah	34.1 pts
Mississippi	34.0 pts
Arkansas	33.2 pts
Iowa	33.0 pts
West Virginia	33.0 pts
North Carolina	32.4 pts
Colorado	31.7 pts
South Carolina	31.3 pts
Missouri	31.2 pts
Indiana	30.4 pts
Wisconsin	30.3 pts
Florida	30.2 pts
Georgia	29.9 pts
Tennessee	28.9 pts
Texas	28.8 pts
Ohio	28.5 pts
Minnesota	28.2 pts
Kentucky	28.1 pts
Nebraska	27.3 pts
Arizona	27.2 pts
Michigan	25.9 pts
United States	25.4 pts
Illinois	23.9 pts
Montana	23.5 pts
South Dakota	22.9 pts
Nevada	22.2 pts
Virginia	22.0 pts
North Dakota	21.3 pts
New Mexico	19.2 pts
Pennsylvania	18.7 pts
New York	18.1 pts
Idaho	17.3 pts
Oregon	16.1 pts
California	13.8 pts
Maryland	12.8 pts
Washington	11.3 pts
Alaska	10.9 pts
Massachusetts	10.7 pts
Delaware	10.0 pts
New Jersey	8.1 pts
Rhode Island	6.7 pts
District of Columbia	0.9 pts

How growth is measured here

Each figure is a difference between two shares: the percentage of a state's broadband serviceable locations with fiber available as of June 30, 2026, minus the same percentage as of June 30, 2022. A location is a house, an apartment building or a small business, each counted once; it is not a household. "Available" means a provider reports it can install fiber service there within ten business days, and anyone can challenge that report on the FCC National Broadband Map.

The ranking uses percentage points rather than counts of new fiber locations because the FCC rebuilds its list of locations with every release. A count of fiber locations rises when homes are built or the list is corrected, not only when fiber is laid; a share compares like with like. The national gain of 25.4 percentage points is the rise in that share, from 37.2%² to 62.6%¹; it is not a percentage increase in the number of fiber connections.

The fastest growers started far apart

A high place in this ranking does not mean a state now has the most fiber. The top states began the period at very different levels.

Maine and Hawaii were near the bottom in 2022, with fiber at 14.4% and 15.7% of locations. Both have moved toward the middle of the fiber availability ranking: Maine is now 23rd lowest at 62.8%, Wyoming 15th lowest at 56.9%. Arizona followed a similar path, from 14.4%² to 41.5%, but is still the 4th lowest¹.

Others were already above the national average and kept going. Wyoming rose from 41.1% to 82.7% and is now the 3rd highest state for fiber. Utah went from 42.3% to 76.4%, Kansas from 46.3% to 81.3%, and Connecticut, which started with fiber at more than half of its locations (47.4%²), reached 82.1%¹.

The gains were broad inside the leading state. In Maine, even the county with the smallest increase, Oxford County, changed by +29.0 percentage points, more than the US as a whole; Somerset County changed by +84.5 percentage points and now has the state's highest share, 85.6%¹. The Maine page has every county.

One network or many builders

States reached large gains with very different numbers of providers. Hawaii has the fewest fiber providers of any state, 4, and nearly all of its fiber belongs to one network: altafiber reports fiber at 81.8% of Hawaii's locations, out of a state total of 82.7%. Only 0.6%¹ of Hawaii's locations have two or more fiber networks.

Iowa sits at the other end: 182 different providers report fiber there, the most of any state, and its share rose by 33.0 percentage points, from 44.5%² to 77.5%. In Maine the largest single fiber footprint is Consolidated Communications, which reports fiber at 46.9% of locations among 16¹ fiber providers in the state. The map records who reports service, not who paid for the construction or why it happened when it did.

Small gains: a full network or a slow one

The bottom of the ranking holds two different kinds of state, and the table separates them by their starting point.

The first group had little room left. The District of Columbia already had fiber at 86.5% of its locations in 2022 and still ranks the highest at 87.4%. Rhode Island (79.5% in 2022, 86.2% now) and Maryland (56.5%, 69.4%¹) were in a similar position; Delaware and New Jersey began at 49.2% and 61.7%², and New Jersey's modest gain hides a great deal of construction, described below.

The second group started low and stayed low. Massachusetts went from 6.2% to 17.1% and has the lowest share in the country. Alaska rose from 28.2% to 39.4%, now the 3rd lowest; in Thurston County fiber reaches 7.3% of locations. Oregon went from 34.0% to 47.8%, Massachusetts from 43.8%² to 54.5%. Except in Alaska, cable is close to universal in these states: it is reported at 83.8% of locations in Washington, 90.5% in California and 97.4% in Massachusetts, against 57.6%¹ in Alaska. The FCC counts cable separately from fiber; the broadband coverage ranking compares states on any wired service of 100/20 Mbps.

Small statewide gains can hide large local ones. In Washington, Columbia County gained +62.3 percentage points while Douglas County moved −7.8 percentage points; in California, Sutter County gained +57.9 percentage points and Tehama County moved +1.2 percentage points¹.

A second fiber network

Part of the growth adds fiber where fiber already existed. The share of US locations with two or more fiber providers went from 3.1%² to 12.1% over the four years, a rise of 9.1 percentage points¹.

That second network is concentrated in a few states. In Connecticut the share with two or more fiber networks rose by 26.3 percentage points, nearly as much as its share with any fiber, and at 40.2% the state ranks the highest on that measure. New Jersey's rose by 12.2 percentage points and Utah's by 26.5 percentage points. In New Jersey that is more than the rise in its share with any fiber, 8.1 percentage points¹, so much of the state's new fiber went to places that already had one fiber provider. The ranking above counts each location once, whether it has one fiber provider or three, so in states like these it understates how much fiber was laid.

The latest six months

Between December 31, 2025 and June 30, 2026, the national share rose by 2.7 percentage points, from 59.9% to 62.6%. Wyoming had the largest gain, +9.0 percentage points, from 47.9%⁴ to 56.9%. New Hampshire (+6.2 percentage points), New Mexico (+6.1 percentage points) and West Virginia (+5.2 percentage points) followed; New Mexico still has the 2nd lowest¹ share of fiber in the country.

Wyoming9.0 pts

New Hampshire6.2 pts

New Mexico6.1 pts

West Virginia5.2 pts

Louisiana4.5 pts

Michigan4.0 pts

Ohio3.9 pts

Oklahoma3.9 pts

Wisconsin3.9 pts

Alabama3.7 pts

Colorado3.7 pts

South Carolina3.6 pts

Illinois3.6 pts

Florida3.5 pts

Kentucky3.3 pts

Indiana3.3 pts

North Carolina3.3 pts

Georgia3.3 pts

Missouri3.0 pts

Montana2.8 pts

United States2.7 pts

Hawaii2.7 pts

Arizona2.7 pts

Pennsylvania2.7 pts

Arkansas2.6 pts

Texas2.4 pts

Idaho2.4 pts

Kansas2.4 pts

Maine2.4 pts

Mississippi2.4 pts

Tennessee2.3 pts

Maryland1.9 pts

Minnesota1.9 pts

Virginia1.9 pts

California1.8 pts

Washington1.6 pts

Nevada1.6 pts

Nebraska1.5 pts

Iowa1.5 pts

New York1.4 pts

Delaware1.3 pts

New Jersey1.3 pts

Utah1.2 pts

Oregon1.0 pts

Vermont1.0 pts

Alaska0.9 pts

Massachusetts0.9 pts

Connecticut0.7 pts

District of Columbia0.6 pts

Rhode Island−0.3 pts

North Dakota−0.5 pts

South Dakota−5.5 pts

Source: FCC, National Broadband Map, data as of June 30, 2026. FCC file revision of November 10, 2026. Shares are of broadband serviceable locations (homes and businesses), not people.

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State	Fiber available: change since December 31, 2025
Wyoming	9.0 pts
New Hampshire	6.2 pts
New Mexico	6.1 pts
West Virginia	5.2 pts
Louisiana	4.5 pts
Michigan	4.0 pts
Ohio	3.9 pts
Oklahoma	3.9 pts
Wisconsin	3.9 pts
Alabama	3.7 pts
Colorado	3.7 pts
South Carolina	3.6 pts
Illinois	3.6 pts
Florida	3.5 pts
Kentucky	3.3 pts
Indiana	3.3 pts
North Carolina	3.3 pts
Georgia	3.3 pts
Missouri	3.0 pts
Montana	2.8 pts
United States	2.7 pts
Hawaii	2.7 pts
Arizona	2.7 pts
Pennsylvania	2.7 pts
Arkansas	2.6 pts
Texas	2.4 pts
Idaho	2.4 pts
Kansas	2.4 pts
Maine	2.4 pts
Mississippi	2.4 pts
Tennessee	2.3 pts
Maryland	1.9 pts
Minnesota	1.9 pts
Virginia	1.9 pts
California	1.8 pts
Washington	1.6 pts
Nevada	1.6 pts
Nebraska	1.5 pts
Iowa	1.5 pts
New York	1.4 pts
Delaware	1.3 pts
New Jersey	1.3 pts
Utah	1.2 pts
Oregon	1.0 pts
Vermont	1.0 pts
Alaska	0.9 pts
Massachusetts	0.9 pts
Connecticut	0.7 pts
District of Columbia	0.6 pts
Rhode Island	−0.3 pts
North Dakota	−0.5 pts
South Dakota	−5.5 pts

Three states moved down. South Dakota fell by 5.5 percentage points, from 67.3%⁴ to 61.8%, the largest drop of any state; North Dakota (−0.5 percentage points) and Rhode Island (−0.3 percentage points¹) slipped slightly. A drop in one release does not show that fiber was removed. Providers revise their filings, challenges remove listings, and the FCC adds locations, so a share can fall without any change on the ground. One release is a weak basis for a trend; the four-year change is the steadier measure.

Pitfalls

• Growth is not coverage. A state can top this ranking and still have less fiber than one near the bottom: Maine's share today is below the District of Columbia's in 2022. Use the fiber availability ranking for where fiber is now.
• Points, not percent. A rise from 14.4%² to 62.8% is 48.4 percentage points¹; describing it as a percentage increase gives a much larger and less comparable number.
• Available is not subscribed. These figures count where fiber can be ordered, not where homes buy it. No federal survey reports fiber subscriptions by state.
• Undated figures cannot be compared. Expansion numbers elsewhere often mix FCC releases or provider announcements of planned construction. Every figure here is FCC data as of June 30, 2022, December 31, 2025 and June 30, 2026; our article on why coverage numbers disagree and the methodology explain the definitions.