Ground stop history
The FAA publishes current status only. This archive keeps every event we observe — national and airport-level — so the record survives after the notice disappears.
Bars show the number of archived events per calendar month across all years.
Recent events
Download CSV →The archive starts empty.
Monitoring is running. The first ground stop, delay program or closure observed after launch will appear here with its start time, duration and affected airports — and will stay here permanently.
Nationwide events
Nationwide ground stops are rare. The two best documented US events are September 11, 2001, when civil airspace closed for several days, and January 11, 2023, when a NOTAM system outage paused all domestic departures for roughly two hours.
Read the full breakdown in nationwide ground stop history.