85 nuclear plant sites. The zones, the routes out, and where they lead.
A single KMZ mapping every commercial nuclear power site in the U.S. and Puerto Rico: 136 reactors at 85 sites in 35 states + PR, running or retired, back to Shippingport in 1957.
Around the plants that still run, it adds the federal evacuation picture: 10 mile and 50 mile rings for 53 plants, 3,214 FEMA evacuation route lines (about 15,000 route-miles), and 223 reception centers where evacuees are sent to get checked.
Most nuclear maps stop at a pin. This one tells you whether the plant runs, how big it is, what it produced last year, which counties sit inside its 10 mile zone, and which roads lead out.
Reference use only — please read
This is a planning and reference aid. It is not an alert system, not an evacuation order, and not a source of live information.
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No live data. No plant status feed, radiation readings, wind, or incident information. In a real event, follow your state and county emergency management instructions.
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The rings are circles. Official EPZ boundaries follow roads, rivers and town lines and can run a few miles past or short of 10 miles. Check the plant's official plan before making a decision.
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Routes and reception centers are as published by FEMA's REP Program. Counties can change them between years. Center records in this file were updated between June 2022 and February 2026. Check the plant's current emergency brochure; its link is on every 10 mile ring and reception center card.
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It's a snapshot. Restarts, shutdowns and decommissioning move. Statuses are as of September 2026.
- Every plant site is private, restricted property. Nothing here is authorization to approach or enter any site.
- Compiled entirely from public sources.
How the color coding works
Pin color is a claim about plant status. A site takes the color of its most active unit.
RED — OPERATING · 54 sites, 94 reactors
At least one reactor on the NRC operating roster. Every red site carries its 10 and 50 mile rings.
AMBER — RESTART PENDING · 3 sites
Palisades, Crane (Three Mile Island 1) and Duane Arnold. Shut down, with a restart underway or proposed.
AMBER — DECOMMISSIONING · 9 sites
Shut down, cleanup underway.
GREEN — DECOMMISSIONED · 19 sites
Reactor cleanup complete. Green does not mean nothing is there. Several decommissioned sites still hold spent fuel in dry casks, including Trojan, Maine Yankee, Zion and Yankee Rowe.
Lines: red = 10 mile plume exposure zone · amber = 50 mile ingestion zone · blue = FEMA evacuation route.
Teal R pins: reception centers.
Rings and routes are lines, not filled shapes. Filled rings grab every tap and fight you when you pan the map. Here, taps inside a ring go to the map and the pins. Tap the line itself for the zone card.
Inside every card
Plant cards carry up to 12 rows:
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Units: each reactor's status, net MW and year online
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Reactor: type (PWR / BWR / HTGR) and total size
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Output: 2025 generation and capacity factor
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Cooling: cooling system and water source
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Grid and operator
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Shutdown date and decommissioning plan with the estimated finish year
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EPZ counties: every county inside the 10 mile zone
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Street address, lat/lon, and NRC docket numbers
10 mile ring cards: EPZ counties, a link to the NRC evacuation time study, and a link to the plant's public emergency brochure.
Route cards: road name, mapped length and FEMA notes.
Reception center cards: plant served, evacuation zones served, address, brochure link and FEMA's last update date.
File structure
- Shelter / Reception centers · 223 (grouped by plant)
- Transport / Evacuation routes · 3,214 (grouped by plant)
- Hazard / 1 Operating · 54
- Hazard / 2 Restart pending · 3
- Hazard / 3 Decommissioning · 9
- Hazard / 4 Decommissioned · 19
- Hazard / 5 EPZ 10 mi rings · 53
- Hazard / 6 Ingestion 50 mi rings · 53
Only care about what's running near you? Switch off folders 2 to 4. Planning a drive? Leave the routes and reception centers on.
Coverage gap: FEMA publishes no routes or reception centers for Braidwood, Byron, Clinton, Dresden or LaSalle (Illinois). Their EPZ counties are still on the plant cards.
Compatibility
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ATAK / CivTAK / iTAK / WinTAK: import directly or drop into Data Packages
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TAK Aware (iPhone)
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Google Earth Pro (desktop) and Google Earth Web
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QGIS, ArcGIS and other KML/KMZ-capable GIS software
- Any application reading standard OGC KML 2.2
Icons are embedded. No external fetches, no broken pins. Fully functional offline once loaded. Brochure and NRC links on the cards need a connection only if you choose to open them.
File: single .kmz, ~694 KB download (10 MB uncompressed) · Features: 3,628 · Format: OGC KML 2.2 with embedded PNG icons
Who it's for
- Households, commuters and travelers who want to know if home, work or a route sits inside a 10 mile zone
- Emergency managers, CERT teams and continuity planners
- Amateur radio operators (ARES/RACES) planning comms along evacuation routes and at reception centers
- Preppers planning routes that don't depend on a cell signal
- Journalists, OSINT researchers and educators who need sourced numbers, not just dots
Sources & methodology
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U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission: operating and decommissioning rosters, reactor profiles, dockets, licensing and decommissioning plans.
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EIA-860 (2024, 2019, 2013): plant coordinates, unit net summer capacity, year online, cooling system, water source, grid operator.
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EIA-923 (2025 early release): annual net generation. Preliminary figures, labeled as such on the cards.
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FEMA Radiological Emergency Preparedness Program: EPZ counties, evacuation route segments, community reception centers, evacuation time study and brochure links.
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IAEA PRIS: coordinates for 18 historical sites with no EIA record, and gross capacity for retired units.
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DOE Office of Legacy Management: Hallam, Piqua and BONUS (Puerto Rico).
Checked, not copied. Every EIA-860 plant coordinate agrees with the IAEA reactor record to within 0.9 km. Where EIA lists only a PO box, the card shows the physical site address from NRC or operator records instead. FEMA's source layer tags North Anna's 100 route segments with Watts Bar's plant code, which would put Virginia routes in a Tennessee folder. Here they are placed with North Anna, by location.
All sources are public. No proprietary, purchased, leaked or authentication-scraped data is used anywhere in this product.
Data attribution
U.S. federal data (NRC, EIA, FEMA, DOE) is public domain. Historical reactor coordinates and retired-unit capacity: IAEA Power Reactor Information System (PRIS). This product is a derivative work. On top of the source data it adds site-level status grading, per-unit capacity and output, address verification, coordinate cross-checks, EPZ rings, the route and reception center linkage, and the color-coded KMZ build.
Terms
Single-user license for personal reference and planning. Redistribution, resale, or repackaging of this KMZ is not permitted. Sold as-is with no warranty of accuracy, completeness, or fitness for any particular purpose. Not a substitute for official emergency instructions.
