Amazon Warehouses in Virginia: Every Facility Code and Address

Virginia runs three Amazon networks doing three unrelated jobs: Richmond distributes, Hampton
Roads imports, and Northern Virginia serves the Washington market. Knowing which one your parcel
touched explains most of what shows up in tracking.

A local note before the table. Virginia has independent cities that sit outside any county, so
entries such as Chesapeake City and Suffolk City are cities in their own right rather than places
within a county. Our source listings put them in the county column, and we have left them there.

The short version in numbers: 30 Virginia facilities on record, 25 of
them carrying a published facility code, spread across 5
distinct facility types. The full breakdown is below.

Looking up a code you saw on a tracking page? Every Virginia facility we have on record is in the table below with its code, address, and type. Search this page for your code. If it is not here, it is most likely a building in a neighboring state, because parcels cross state lines routinely on the way to you and I’d not read that as a problem.

Every Amazon facility in Virginia

30 facilities, of which 25 have a published code: 12 fulfillment centers, 7 delivery stations, 6 distribution centers, 1 oversize goods site, 1 sortation center.

Addresses are compiled from public listings. Amazon opens, closes, and repurposes buildings
continually, and no facility on this list accepts visitors or takes calls about individual
parcels, which is why we do not publish site phone numbers.

The Virginia codes people look up most

• RIC4 is a fulfillment center at 5901 Richmond Henrico Turnpike in Richmond, and it draws the
  most Virginia searches.
• ORF3 is a fulfillment center at 2020 Northgate Commerce Pkwy in Suffolk, in the Hampton Roads
  port region.
• WCH2 is a distribution center at 2712 W Main St in Waynesboro.
• ORF5 is searched regularly but does not appear in our listing. It is a Hampton Roads code, and
  we would rather say so than publish an address we cannot support.

RIC and ORF are the airport codes for Richmond and Norfolk, which is a reliable way to tell which of
Virginia’s three regions a code belongs to.

Three regions, three purposes

Chesterfield County leads, with Fairfax, Chesapeake City, and Suffolk City close behind, then
Loudoun. By town, Richmond holds the most, followed by Springfield, Chesapeake, Suffolk, Sterling, and
Clear Brook.

Richmond and Chesterfield are the distribution core. The city sits on I-95 roughly halfway
between Washington and the Carolinas, about 110 miles south of Washington and around 90 miles from
Hampton Roads, which makes it a natural staging point for the whole mid-Atlantic. A truck leaving
Richmond reaches Baltimore in about 3 hours and Raleigh in about 3 hours.

Hampton Roads is about the water. Norfolk, Suffolk, and Chesapeake sit around one of the deepest
natural harbors on the east coast, and the Port of Virginia is a major container terminal. The ORF
codes in your tracking refer to that region, ORF being Norfolk’s airport code.

Northern Virginia is a market, not a hub. Fairfax, Loudoun, and Sterling serve the Washington
metropolitan area, which is dense, wealthy, and short of warehouse land. Sterling sits roughly 30
miles from central Washington, which is about as close as large-format warehousing gets. Clear Brook, out near
Winchester on I-81, is a different thing again, sitting on the same corridor as the Pennsylvania
distribution sites.

I’d read the region before reading anything else into a Virginia code. In our experience the three do
not substitute for each other, and a parcel that appears to have travelled oddly has usually just
crossed between them.

What it means when your parcel is at one of these

The facility type tells you roughly how far along your parcel is, and I’d argue that is the
single most useful thing on this page after the addresses themselves.

A fulfillment center holds inventory, so a parcel there has usually not been packed for you yet.
A sortation center handles parcels that are already packed, grouping them by destination region.
A delivery station is the last building your parcel sees before it goes onto a van, which means
it is close to you and close to arriving. Our guide to the different types of Amazon warehouse
covers what happens inside each, and sortation center versus fulfillment center
covers the pair people confuse most.

A word on the codes themselves. Amazon has never published its facility naming scheme, so
every decoder you find online is inference rather than documentation. One pattern does hold up
reasonably well: a leading D usually means a delivery station. Beyond that I’d read the type column
above rather than the letters, because the exceptions are common enough to mislead you.

If the parcel has stopped moving entirely, our guide to what a carrier delay means
covers how long to wait before it is worth doing anything, and our guide to
a disappeared order covers the case where
the order itself has vanished from your account rather than the parcel from the network.

If your code is not on this list

Searched and found nothing? That happens often, and I’d read it as unremarkable. The
possibilities are few.

The building sits in a neighboring state. The single most common answer. Parcel networks are
built around drive times rather than state lines, and in our experience a cross-border scan worries
people who have no reason to be worried.

The site is newer than this page. Amazon commissions buildings faster than any list is updated,
so recent codes are frequently absent.

It is not an Amazon code at all. Contracted delivery partners and third-party logistics providers
run their own identifiers, which look similar and are not the same thing.

A character was misread somewhere. Zero versus O, one versus I, five versus S. When I have run
down a code that seemed impossible, a misread character was often the whole story.

Whichever applies, the sensible move is to wait for the next tracking update rather than to
investigate the address.

Other Amazon buildings you may see in tracking

Five other kinds of Amazon building turn up in tracking often enough to be worth naming, and
none of them behave like the ones above.

Air hubs move freight between regions by aircraft rather than picking orders, which is why a
parcel can appear hundreds of miles from both its origin and its destination without anything having
gone wrong. Receive centers, sometimes labeled cross-docks, take bulk shipments from
manufacturers and break them apart for distribution; nothing there is destined for a customer yet.
Amazon Warehousing and Distribution sites hold bulk stock upstream and replenish fulfillment
centers automatically, which matters to importers and is largely unknown among smaller merchants.
Returns centers grade what customers send back. And third-party partner sites are buildings
Amazon uses without owning, which is why some addresses look nothing like a warehouse.

I’d not read too much into seeing one. They are ordinary stages in a long chain.

Visiting, calling, and collecting

Worth stating plainly, because it comes up constantly: you cannot visit any of these
sites. Fulfillment centers, sortation centers, and delivery stations admit no members of the
public, hand out no parcels, and run no inquiry desk. Amazon Locker and Amazon Hub Counter locations
are the designated collection points and are unrelated to the facilities in this table.

Facility phone numbers, where other lists publish them, are the same trap. When I have followed one
up it reached a switchboard with no visibility of orders at all, so the useful route is Amazon
customer service rather than the building.

The Port of Virginia is the reason to care

Virginia’s genuine seller relevance is inbound.

The Port of Virginia is one of the deeper east coast container terminals, and it has capacity that
the New York and New Jersey complex often does not. For goods arriving from Europe, the Mediterranean,
or via the Suez route, it is a practical alternative, and the warehousing around Suffolk and
Chesapeake is cheaper than the equivalent further north.

I’d weigh it against Savannah rather than against New York. Savannah has grown faster and serves the
Southeast better; Virginia serves the mid-Atlantic and the Northeast better. Our guide to
finding a reliable shipping agent
covers moving freight from a port into Amazon’s network without the rejections that inexperienced
forwarders produce.

The Northern Virginia market is worth noting separately: high income, high density, and a strong
response to delivery speed. That is an argument for staying in stock rather than for placing
inventory, since Amazon assigns your inbound destination and only fulfillment centers hold seller
stock.

A note on how much weight to put on this list. I’ve found it helps to say plainly what a
page like this can and cannot do.

Everything here comes from public listings rather than from Amazon, which means it trails the real
network. Closed buildings linger; new ones take a while to appear. The type column carries whatever
those listings recorded, and in our experience that is usually accurate rather than always accurate.

Use the page to identify a code and to understand what stage your parcel has reached. Do not use it
to count Amazon’s footprint exactly, and I’d be wary of anyone who claims to.

FAQ

How many Amazon warehouses are in Virginia?

The complete list with codes, addresses, and types appears in the table above. Virginia’s network
splits across three regions doing unrelated jobs: Richmond, Hampton Roads, and Northern Virginia.

Which Virginia county has the most Amazon facilities?

Chesterfield County, with Fairfax, Chesapeake City, and Suffolk City close behind. Virginia has
independent cities that sit outside any county, which is why several city names appear in the county
column.

What is RIC4 and where is it?

RIC4 is a fulfillment center at 5901 Richmond Henrico Turnpike in Richmond. RIC is Richmond
International Airport’s code, and it is the most searched Virginia facility code.

What does an ORF code mean in my tracking?

ORF is Norfolk International Airport’s code, so an ORF-prefixed facility sits in the Hampton Roads
region around Norfolk, Suffolk, and Chesapeake. That area is built around the Port of Virginia.

Why are there Amazon facilities near Winchester?

Because Clear Brook sits on I-81, the same corridor as the large Pennsylvania distribution sites. It
serves a broad multi-state region rather than serving Virginia specifically.

Is the Port of Virginia good for Amazon sellers importing goods?

It can be. It is one of the deeper east coast container terminals with capacity the New York and New
Jersey complex often lacks, and warehousing nearby is cheaper. It suits mid-Atlantic and Northeast
distribution better than Savannah, which serves the Southeast.

Last updated: August 30, 2026. Compiled from public listings; Amazon’s facility network changes
continually and this page will lag it. Facilities do not accept visitors or handle parcel
inquiries. For warehouse employment, Amazon’s own hiring site carries current openings and is
the only accurate source.