U.S. State and Territorial Stay-At-Home Orders: March 15, 2020 – May 31, 2021 by County by Day

Project Title:  View help for Project Title U.S. State and Territorial Stay-At-Home Orders: March 15, 2020 – May 31, 2021 by County by Day

Summary:  View help for Summary State and territorial executive orders, administrative orders, resolutions, and proclamations are collected from government websites and cataloged and coded using Microsoft Excel by one coder with one or more additional coders conducting quality assurance. Data were collected to determine when individuals in states and territories were subject to executive orders, administrative orders, resolutions, and proclamations for COVID-19 that require or recommend people stay in their homes. Data consists exclusively of state and territorial orders, many of which apply to specific counties within their respective state or territory; therefore, data is broken down to the county level. These data are derived from the publicly available state and territorial executive orders, administrative orders, resolutions, and proclamations (“orders”) for COVID-19 that expressly require or recommend individuals stay at home found by the CDC, COVID-19 Community Intervention and At-Risk Task Force, Monitoring and Evaluation Team & CDC, Center for State, Tribal, Local, and Territorial Support, Public Health Law Program from March 15, 2020 through May 31, 2021. These data will be updated as new orders are collected. Any orders not available through publicly accessible websites are not included in these data. Only official copies of the documents or, where official copies were unavailable, official press releases from government websites describing requirements were coded; news media reports on restrictions were excluded. Recommendations not included in an order are not included in these data. These data do not include mandatory business closures, curfews, or limitations on public or private gatherings. These data do not necessarily represent an official position of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Read less

Original Distribution URL:  View help for Original Distribution URL https://data.cdc.gov/Policy-Surveillance/U-S-State-and-Territorial-Stay-At-Home-Orders-Marc/hm3s-vk7u/about_data

Subject Terms:  View help for Subject Terms covid-19; stay-at-home; shelter-in-place; social distancing; executive order; proclamation; legal epidemiology; government order; public health order; mitigation

Collection Notes:  View help for Collection Notes (Downloaded 1/12/2026)