Amazon’s warehouse locations across Alabama include fulfillment centers around Bessemer and Madison, plus sortation and delivery facilities serving the state. For a seller, the important distinction is that only fulfillment centers hold your inventory. Sortation centers and delivery stations move packages that have already been picked, and your goods never sit in them.
That distinction matters. It answers the question most sellers are actually asking when they search for this: can I send my stock to the Amazon warehouse near me?
The short answer is no. Worth understanding why before you read the list, because in my experience this is the single most common misconception among sellers researching warehouse locations, and we tested it against enough client shipments to be certain.
If you arrived here looking for warehouse work rather than selling information, Amazon posts its openings on its own hiring site, which will be more current than any article. The rest of this guide is written for sellers.
Why you cannot pick your fulfillment center
When you create an inbound shipment through Send to Amazon, Amazon decides where your inventory goes. You supply the products and quantities, and Amazon returns the destinations.
Amazon’s network planning chooses them. Not your address. Not your preference. Goods from a seller in Birmingham routinely travel to facilities several states away, because the system is positioning stock near where it expects demand rather than anywhere near where you happen to be standing.
Two consequences worth planning around:
Amazon may split your shipment. One purchase order becomes three shipments to three facilities. Normal. Not an error, though it certainly looks like one the first time.
Sending to fewer locations costs money. Amazon charges an inbound placement service fee when you consolidate into fewer destinations than its network would prefer. Splitting across more facilities reduces or removes that fee at the cost of more freight complexity. Our guide to FBA storage fees covers the wider fee picture.
One practical warning. You cannot simply drive to a fulfillment center and drop off stock. Inbound deliveries need a shipment plan, correct carton labeling, and a booked appointment for freight. Turning up without one means being turned away, and people do try.
The facility types, and which ones matter to you
This is the part that makes a location list useful rather than trivia.
| Type | What it does | Holds your inventory? |
|---|---|---|
| Fulfillment center (FC) | Stores seller inventory, picks and packs orders | Yes |
| Amazon Warehousing and Distribution (AWD) | Bulk storage upstream of FBA | Yes |
| Receive center or cross-dock (IXD) | Bulk intake, redistributes to FCs | Transiently |
| Sortation center (SC) | Sorts outbound packages by destination | No |
| Delivery station (DS) | Last-mile dispatch to customers | No |
| Locker, hub, counter | Customer pickup points | No |
So a state with six Amazon facilities may have only one or two that could ever hold your goods. Counting buildings tells you about Amazon’s delivery coverage in the area, not about your storage options.
Amazon warehouse locations in Alabama
The facilities publicly identified in the state, with their codes and addresses:
| Code | Address | Zip | Type | County |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BHM1 | 975 Powder Plant Rd, Bessemer, AL | 35022 | Fulfillment center | Jefferson |
| HSV1 | 7817 Greenbrier Rd, Madison, AL | 35756 | Fulfillment center | Limestone |
| HSV2 | 28869 Fanning Dr NW, Madison, AL | 35756 | Fulfillment center | Limestone |
| MOB5 | 6735 Trippel Rd, Theodore, AL | 36582 | Distribution or delivery | Mobile |
Treat this list as a reference point rather than a live inventory. Amazon opens, converts, and closes facilities continually, and codes are reassigned. Anything operationally important should be checked against Seller Central or your carrier rather than against a published list.
The pattern is worth noting. Two Madison facilities sit close together in the north, near the Huntsville corridor. BHM1 covers the middle, around Birmingham. Alabama’s Amazon presence is concentrated rather than spread evenly, which is what you generally see in states built around a handful of dense population centers instead of many mid-sized ones.
What this actually means for your business
Four things, in descending order of how much money they involve.
Inbound freight planning. If Amazon assigns you a southeastern destination, your freight cost from a west coast port differs substantially from a seller shipping out of Savannah. This is one reason supplier and freight decisions belong in the same conversation as product selection.
Delivery speed to customers in the region. Stock positioned nearby reaches those buyers faster, and speed supports conversion. You do not control placement. You do control how much inventory you send, and depth is what gives Amazon room to distribute widely rather than concentrate everything in one building.
Removals and disposals. Removal orders are processed at facilities Amazon designates, not necessarily in the state where the inventory sat. Plan the address for returned stock accordingly.
State tax exposure. Inventory stored in a state has been argued to create income or franchise tax obligations there, and states take differing positions. Sales tax on marketplace sales is generally handled by Amazon under marketplace facilitator laws. Our guide to the Amazon Tax Document Library covers that distinction, and this is genuinely a question for an accountant rather than an article.
That last point is the one I’d raise with a professional rather than resolve from a list of addresses.
What the facility codes tell you
Small thing, occasionally useful, and nobody explains it.
Amazon’s codes follow a loose convention built around the nearest airport. BHM is Birmingham. HSV is Huntsville. MOB is Mobile. The trailing number distinguishes buildings in the same area, so HSV1 and HSV2 are neighbors rather than unrelated sites.
Prefixes carry meaning too. A leading D usually marks a delivery station, as in DOK2 or DID3 in other states. X prefixes tend to appear on smaller or specialized sites.
Why care? Because when Seller Central assigns you a destination code, you can read roughly where your goods are heading before you look anything up. A shipment routed to HSV2 is going to northern Alabama. One routed to SLC1 is going to Utah, whatever the state page you were reading said.
I would not over-invest in decoding these. Amazon reassigns codes and the conventions are not absolute. As a quick orientation while planning freight, it saves a search.
Finding out where your own inventory actually is
Far more useful than a state list, and most sellers never look.
Inventory reports in Seller Central show which fulfillment centers hold your stock, by SKU. That is the authoritative answer for your account, and in our experience it never matches a published warehouse locations list.
Your shipment history shows where Amazon has sent you in the past, which is a reasonable predictor of where it will send you next.
The Send to Amazon workflow shows destinations before you commit, so you can see the freight implications before booking anything.
I’d check the first of those before reading any more location lists. In our experience sellers are surprised by how widely Amazon has distributed their inventory, and that surprise is usually the beginning of a better freight conversation.
Why Amazon put buildings here at all
Worth understanding, because the logic explains what Amazon will likely do next in the region.
Population reach within a day’s drive. Amazon sites facilities to cover metropolitan clusters inside a single delivery radius. Huntsville’s growth as a technology and aerospace employer made northern Alabama considerably more attractive than its raw state population suggests.
Interstate geometry. Proximity to major corridors decides trucking economics. Buildings cluster where highways converge, not where the map looks empty.
Labor availability. A facility needs several hundred people willing to work shifts. That constraint quietly rules out enormous portions of the country regardless of how convenient the geography appears.
Land and incentives. Municipalities compete for these developments with tax arrangements and infrastructure commitments, which is why announcements arrive with local press coverage.
For a seller the practical takeaway is modest but real. Regions gaining capacity tend to see delivery promises tighten, and tighter promises in a region where your buyers concentrate is worth a little more than it sounds. It is not something to act on directly. It is context for why your assigned destinations shift over time without anyone telling you.
Related reading
Our guides to shipping options for Amazon sellers and tracking shipment performance cover the fulfillment decisions this feeds into, and our guide to interpreting business reports covers reading the numbers those decisions produce.
If you want inbound freight, placement fees, and inventory positioning handled as one plan rather than three separate problems, that sits inside our account management service and our global shipping and logistics work.
FAQ
How many Amazon warehouses are in Alabama?
Publicly identified facilities include fulfillment centers at Bessemer and two at Madison, plus distribution and delivery facilities such as the Theodore site. Amazon opens and closes facilities continually, so treat any published list as a reference point rather than a current inventory.
Can I send my FBA inventory to a specific Amazon warehouse?
No. Amazon assigns inbound destinations through the Send to Amazon workflow based on its own network planning, not on your location or preference. It may also split a single shipment across several facilities, which is normal rather than an error.
What is the difference between a fulfillment center and a delivery station?
A fulfillment center stores seller inventory and picks and packs orders. A delivery station handles last-mile dispatch to customers and never holds your inventory. Sortation centers similarly sort outbound packages without storing seller goods.
Can I drop off inventory at an Amazon warehouse in person?
No. Inbound deliveries require a shipment plan created in Seller Central, correct carton labeling, and a booked appointment for freight deliveries. Arriving without those means being turned away.
Does storing inventory in Alabama affect my taxes?
Possibly, for income or franchise tax purposes, since states take differing positions on whether stored inventory creates an obligation. Sales tax on marketplace sales is generally collected by Amazon under marketplace facilitator laws. Consult an accountant rather than an article.
How do I find which Amazon warehouse holds my stock?
Use the inventory reports in Seller Central, which show your inventory by fulfillment center and SKU. That is the authoritative answer for your own account and it will differ from any published location list.
Last updated: August 29, 2026. Amazon opens, converts, and closes facilities continually, and facility codes are reassigned. Seller Central inventory reports and the Send to Amazon workflow carry the authoritative position for your own inventory. If you are looking for warehouse employment rather than seller information, Amazon’s own hiring site carries current openings.
