Delaware Snow Plow Tracker and Road Conditions

Q: Where can I see where the plows are in Delaware?

DelDOT calls it Snow Plow Tracking, and it runs at https://deldot.gov/map/. DelDOT describes it this way: "There are no snow plows active at this time."

Q: What is DelDOT Travel Map?

DelDOT Travel Map is Delaware Department of Transportation's own travel information service. DelDOT Travel Map carries traffic cameras and a phone app called DelDOT App. DelDOT describes it this way: "View a continuously updated, interactive map of state road conditions maintained by DelDOT's Traffic Management Center."

Q: How do I report a road problem in Delaware?

DelDOT takes reports at https://deldot.gov/Traffic/ReportRoadCondition/index.shtml.

Trucks on the map

What the state publishes

Live truck positions

DelDOT Travel Map

The map

DelDOT, Delaware Department of Transportation

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Words on the map

printed without definitions

Yes

Roadside cameras

on the same map, pointed at the road itself

The answer

Where the plows are in Delaware

Trucks on the map

DelDOT publishes where its plows are on DelDOT Travel Map.

A reader can see which roads have a truck on them right now. Whether one has already been past is a separate question the layer may or may not answer.

What the state calls it: Snow Plow Tracking
Where it lives: DelDOT Travel Map
How often it updates: Each truck's popup on the map prints a Last Updated time, and the layer's own feed stamps every response with the time it was generated.

Open Snow Plow Tracking

DelDOT describes it in its own words, from Snow Plow Tracking layer feed, Delaware Department of Transportation Traffic Management Center, read September 23, 2026.

There are no snow plows active at this time.

Snow Plow Tracking layer feed, Delaware Department of Transportation Traffic Management Center, read September 23, 2026. Read it at the source

The map

What DelDOT Travel Map shows

DelDOT Travel Map carries traffic cameras and a phone app called DelDOT App. DelDOT describes it this way: "View a continuously updated, interactive map of state road conditions maintained by DelDOT's Traffic Management Center."

Conditions on any state map are reported rather than measured. A plow operator or a trooper enters what they saw, and the map carries it until somebody enters something else, so a colour is a description of the road a while ago on the stretch the person was looking at.

Delaware puts its plow trucks on the same map as its cameras and pavement sensors, showing each truck as moving or stationary with the time it last reported.

The map: DelDOT Travel Map
Cameras: Roadside cameras
Phone app: DelDOT App

DelDOT Travel Map, Delaware Department of Transportation

View a continuously updated, interactive map of state road conditions maintained by DelDOT's Traffic Management Center.

Frequently Asked Questions (Snow Specific), Delaware Department of Transportation, read September 23, 2026. Read it at the source

The words

What Delaware calls each state of a road

DelDOT runs 9 steps on DelDOT Travel Map, from Dry to Ice. DelDOT prints the labels without defining them.

These are Delaware’s words and they stop at the state line. There is no national scale: the 33 states that publish a legend use 166 different labels between them, and only 17 publish what their own labels mean. A phrase that means one thing here means something else, or nothing, one state over.

DelDOT’s own labels, in the order DelDOT lists them. The state prints these labels without defining them.
What the map says
Dry
Unknown
Wet
Chemically Wet
Mixed
Snow
Ice Watch
Ice Warning
Ice

Read from DelDOT’s own legend on September 23, 2026.

When a road shuts

Who closes a road in Delaware

Delaware does not declare snow emergencies; instead the Governor may put a three level system of driving warnings and restrictions in effect during a State of Emergency, running from a Level 1 Driving Warning through a Level 2 Driving Restriction to a Level 3 Driving Ban.

Technically, Delaware does not declare snow emergencies. However, the state has a three-level system of driving warnings and restrictions. The levels are found in Title 20 of the Delaware Code, Subsection 3116(b)(12) and may be put in effect by the Governor during a State of Emergency for all or parts of Delaware based on conditions.

Frequently Asked Questions (Snow Specific), Delaware Department of Transportation, read September 23, 2026. Read it at the source

A closure is a different thing from a bad condition, and it is the one entry on the map that carries the force of law behind it. Driving past a closure device is an offence in most states and a rescue bill in several. The map is where the closure is published, and the state also takes reports of conditions from the public.

A red and white striped gate padlocked shut across a two lane forest highway with a ROAD CLOSED sign at its centre, photographed at road level along the wet double yellow line — A seasonal gate shut across a state highway, with no snow on the ground yet. Closures like this one go on by the calendar rather than by the storm, and a driver who checks the map in November finds the road already gone. That is the quietest and most useful thing these maps do, and it happens weeks before anybody looks for a plow. “The gates are closed (49097728041)”, Oregon Department of Transportation, CC BY 2.0

Delaware snow plow tracker questions

Does Delaware have a snow plow tracker?

Where can I see where the plows are in Delaware?

What is DelDOT Travel Map?

What do the road condition colours mean in Delaware?

Who closes a road in Delaware?

Delaware does not declare snow emergencies; instead the Governor may put a three level system of driving warnings and restrictions in effect during a State of Emergency, running from a Level 1 Driving Warning through a Level 2 Driving Restriction to a Level 3 Driving Ban. DelDOT puts it this way: "Technically, Delaware does not declare snow emergencies. However, the state has a three-level system of driving warnings and restrictions. The levels are found in Title 20 of the Delaware Code, Subsection 3116(b)(12) and may be put in effect by the Governor during a State of Emergency for all or parts of Delaware based on conditions."

How do I report a road problem in Delaware?

A plow truck seen from behind in heavy snowfall casting a wide plume of snow off the left shoulder of an interstate, with one dark treated lane running away to the right — The same event from behind: the truck throwing its wing load onto the shoulder, and beside it the dark strip of lane it has already been down. That contrast between the wet black lane and the white one is the physical thing a road map is reporting when it changes a segment from snow covered to wet, and it is why the colour on the map can be right and the road can still be slick. “Snowplow on Interstate 5 in Everett, Washington”, SounderBruce, CC BY-SA 4.0

Plow trackers in other states

Delaware studded tire datesWhen studs are legal on Delaware roads, and the penalty when they are not.Mountain pass conditionsThe passes that close, and what each state posts when they do.Studded tire laws by stateThe dates studs are legal, state by state.Lake effect snowWhere the bands set up and what they do to a commute.Plow trackers in every stateWhich states show the trucks, which show only the roads, and what their legends say.

Delaware read September 23, 2026 from Frequently Asked Questions (Snow Specific), Delaware Department of Transportation, linked above. Departments replace these services between seasons and a layer that ran last winter may not run this one, so DelDOT’s own page is the one that governs. Conditions shown on it are reported by people and lag the road. Every state is on the snow plow tracker hub.