Web discovery finds 5,605 specialty roaster candidates — one in ten in California, and the West Coast towers over the map

Asked:

“show me a map of all specialty coffee roaster across the USA. do state-by-state queries and then aggregate on a state level. no need for exact address extraction”

Fifty state-by-state web queries, run in five batches as of 31 August 2026, surfaced 5,605 normalized specialty-roaster candidates across all 50 states, backed by 4,126 state-level source-page mentions. Counts are discovered candidates from public pages, not a licensed-business census, and source coverage varies by state.

Shading = discovered roaster candidates per state. Hover a state for cities identified and source pages. State-level aggregation only — no street addresses were extracted.

California leads with 546 discovered roasters across 59 cities — more than double runner-up Oregon (260) — and the California–Oregon–Washington coast alone holds 1,032 candidates, 18% of the national total. newsbreak.com

Michigan (201, across 52 cities) and Missouri (168, across 42 cities) punch far above their coastal reputation, both landing in the national top seven. roastlocal.com

Nevada is the thinnest state in the scan at just 16 candidates in 5 cities, with Delaware (28), Louisiana (39), North Dakota (40) and South Dakota (43) close behind. roastlocal.com

Source depth is uneven: Oregon's 260 candidates rest on 174 source pages while Florida's 122 rest on just 49, so low counts can mean thin coverage as much as few roasters. coffeebyme.com

All 50 states, ranked

State	Discovered roasters	Cities identified	Source pages	Source

Method: 50 explicit state queries run in five search batches; businesses described as specialty, third-wave, artisan, craft or small-batch coffee roasters were extracted, cafes not identified as roasters excluded, and names normalized within states for spelling, punctuation, abbreviations and corporate suffixes. 50 rows, one per state; a count measures web-discovered candidate roasters as of 2026-08-31, not a regulatory registry. No exact addresses were extracted; multi-state operators, stale pages and search ambiguity may affect counts.