The U.S. counter-UAS map is a patchwork on a federal floor.
One federal baseline applies everywhere. 42 jurisdictions add a statewide statute on top, 9 have a documented gap. Scroll to see it, then click any tile for the source.
One federal rule sits under all of it.
Before any state acts, a federal baseline already applies in every jurisdiction. The SAFER SKIES Act in the FY2026 NDAA reauthorized the core counter-UAS authority at 6 U.S.C. 124n and extended it toward state, local, tribal and territorial use. That floor is the same in all 51 jurisdictions on this map.
States build on top, unevenly.
On top of the federal floor, most states have enacted their own statewide drone or counter-UAS statute. Each filled tile is a jurisdiction with at least one authority on file, traced to a primary source. The result is a patchwork, not a uniform map.
Some states have no statewide statute.
The lit tiles are the documented gaps: jurisdictions where no comprehensive statewide statute is on record. This is stated as an honest absence, not an oversight. The federal floor still applies in these states; what is missing is a state-level layer.
Every tile traces to a primary source.
Tap any jurisdiction to open its page on Rogue River Tech, where the authority links straight to the underlying statute, order or proceeding. Nothing on this map is asserted without a source you can click.
The patchwork keeps moving.
Laws change, proceedings open, gaps close. The trackers hold the record as it shifts, and the CUAS Brief is the monthly read on what actually moved.
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