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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 36,609 lots up for auction across the country, worth $583M 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. Tap a state for its stats.

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Number of lots:≤ 110110–251251–537537–650650–936936+
Humvee 1975America's weirdest gov lot
Humvee 1975

Military Humvee from 1975, rare vintage government vehicle auction.

Arizona · novelty 9/10 · see the full listing →

Find your state

The U.S. government has 36,609 lots up for auction right now, worth $583M in current bids. Pick a state to see what it's selling.

Top states by number of lots

Live data from 36,609 active U.S. government surplus lots across every major official platform (GovDeals, GSA, HUD, Public Surplus, GovPlanet and more). Sold-price medians from the last 12 months of completed sales. Source: govauctions.app

The map is lopsided for a reason: the biggest states run the biggest fleets. California alone has 3,991 lots up right now. If you switch the shading to weirdness, the leaderboard scrambles.

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” comes from the last 12 months of completed sales in that state. “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.

Free to cite with attribution to GovAuctions. See also 40% of government auctions get zero bids.