Where are tires made?

Two different questions hide inside that one. Where is the company from, and where was this specific tire built? The ownership map answers the first. This page answers the second, and the honest headline is that most brands are mixed: the same brand builds some lines in the United States and imports others, and no manufacturer publishes a complete list of which models come from which plant. The only way to know where one specific tire was made is a code molded into its sidewall, covered below.

Compiled November 14, 2026, from manufacturer sources, NHTSA records, and trade reporting. Plant status changes fast: several US passenger tire plants have closed or announced wind-downs in the last two years, and this page is rechecked as they do.

Read the plant off the tire: the DOT code

Every new tire sold in the US carries a Tire Identification Number molded into one sidewall, right after the letters DOT. Federal rule 49 CFR 574.5 sets the format:

• The first group is the plant code. Three characters on current tires, two on older ones still in the field. NHTSA assigns the code, and each plant has its own, so one manufacturer holds many codes.
• The last four digits are the build date: the week and the year. A code ending 2426 was built in week 24 of 2026.
• The lookup is free. In NHTSA's Manufacturer Information Database, set Equipment Type to Tires and enter the code in the DOT Code field. The result names the manufacturer and the plant's city, state, and country.

Worked example: plant code 1UP resolves in NHTSA's database to Cooper Tire and Rubber Company, 701 Lima Avenue, Findlay, Ohio, with the main office listed as the Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company in Akron. One lookup gives you the plant and the parent in a single line. Most tires also carry a plain "Made in" country marking on the sidewall, which answers the country question but not the plant.

The map: brand by brand

Two closures that redrew the map

Falken is imported only now. Sumitomo Rubber USA built Falken tires in Tonawanda, New York from 2016 until production ceased on November 7, 2024; the plant closed in 2025 and production moved to Sumitomo plants overseas. Any list that still shows a US Falken plant is out of date.

Yokohama no longer builds passenger tires in the US. Its Salem, Virginia plant, the company's only US consumer tire plant, closed effective March 18, 2026. The remaining US plant in West Point, Mississippi builds commercial truck and bus tires. US-sold Yokohama passenger tires are imported.

Two more wind-downs are announced: BFGoodrich production in Tuscaloosa, Alabama phases out through the end of 2028, consolidating in Fort Wayne, Indiana, and trade reporting has Michelin's Ardmore, Oklahoma plant ending tire production at the end of 2025.

The big number

Imports were 67.5 percent of US passenger and light truck tire consumption in 2024 and 69.6 percent in 2025, counting both factory fitments and replacement tires together. Those figures come from US International Trade Commission import data as compiled in a September 2026 industry filing. No authoritative source publishes a replacement-only split, so be skeptical of any page that quotes one: for the tires a shop sells you, the import share is not published, and the DOT code on the individual tire is the only exact answer.

How to use this

If buying American-made matters to you, the brand name will not settle it, even for Goodyear and Cooper, and even for a French or Japanese brand with big US plants. Ask the seller for the DOT code of the exact tires you are buying, or check it on the sidewall before installation, and look the plant up. That is a ten-second check that no amount of brand research can replace.