Nationwide, the federal RIBITS ledger recorded 38,675 credit sales — credit withdrawals, written when credits are committed to a permit — over 2016–2025, across the whole market: 31,626 from commercial mitigation banks, 4,067 from in-lieu fee programs and 2,982 at captive single-client banks. Below: how the market splits, a map of where the sales happened, every state ranked by them with its year-by-year shape, and where the banks themselves are. Only the commercial segment is supply anyone can buy.
Credit sales / yr2016–2025
38,675 total sales
Figures mirrored from USACE RIBITS · synced
Where the market actually is
Mitigation credit sales map by state
The read
Nationwide, 38,675 credit sales were recorded over 2016–2025 — the states below are ranked by that count, split by who sold.
US mitigation credit sales by seller segment
3 segments · 2016–2025
US mitigation credit sales by seller segment, 4 rows
Seller segment
Sales 2016–2025
Providers
Buyable today
Commercial mitigation banksthird-party — anyone can buy
Mitigation banking across the states — common questions
How many mitigation banks are there in the US?
The registry carries 3,321 mitigation and conservation banks across 45 states — 2,873 of them open-market, the rest captive single-client banks whose credits are reserved for one sponsor and cannot be bought. In-lieu fee programs are counted separately (110 programs): an ILF site is not a bank, and a program is one counterparty however many sites it holds.
Which state has the most mitigation credit sales?
Florida, with 3,818 credit sales over 2016–2025 — 10% of the 38,675 nationwide, 3,689 of them from commercial banks. A "sale" here is one credit withdrawal against a bank's credit ledger — at commercial banks generally a sale, though not necessarily a distinct purchase — not a dollar figure and not a credit quantity: credit units differ by class, so transactions are the one thing that counts the same way in every state.
Where does this mitigation banking data come from?
All of it comes from RIBITS — the Regulatory In-lieu fee and Bank Information Tracking System, the US Army Corps of Engineers' public register of mitigation and conservation banks. It is a federal public record, read through its unauthenticated public API and derived in git, so every figure on this page can be traced back to a row someone can look up themselves. Last synced 2026-09-11. Sales are the credit withdrawals recorded on that same ledger over 2016–2025; credit availability is the ledger replayed the other way, released minus withdrawn, per class. Counts only — no modeled averages, no estimates, nothing bought or licensed.
About the data on this page
Bank details, status and credit balances are mirrored from the USACE RIBITS registry, the federal public record for mitigation banks. Single-client banks are excluded from supply figures. What we call a “credit sale” is a credit withdrawal — the entry written in the federal credit ledger when credits are committed to a permit. At commercial banks a withdrawal generally represents a sale; at a single-client bank it offsets the sponsor’s own project. The figures count ledger transactions, not distinct purchases — one purchase may produce several withdrawals — and we count entries rather than credits moved, because credit classes are different units and cannot be added together. Sales are counted from the withdrawals in RIBITS’s own credit ledger over the last 10 complete years. They are counts of transactions, never sums of credits, for the same reason totals are kept per class. Each bar in a sales chart counts the credit sales recorded in that calendar year — withdrawals from the federal ledger, not quantities of credits. The final bar is the year in progress and is shown in a different color. No bars means no sales in those years. State outlines are the US Census 1:20m cartographic boundary file, public domain, simplified and held here as reference data rather than fetched when you load the page.