Wing and Walmart on July 8, 2026 more than doubled the size of their Greater Houston drone delivery network, adding eight Walmart Supercenters to the aerial-fulfillment map and putting the service within reach of more than one million residents across Houston, Spring, New Caney, Katy and Crosby.
From 5 stores to 13 in six months
The July expansion pushes Greater Houston to 13 active Walmart drone-delivery stores, up from the five sites the two companies launched with in January 2026. The newly activated sites span north, northwest, west and east Houston, including Supercenters on Tomball Parkway, FM 1960 Road West, Riley Fuzzel Road in Spring, U.S. Highway 59 in New Caney, Sawdust Road, Northwest Freeway, East Freeway and Highway 6 South. Together with the original Crosby, Katy, Kemah and northwest Houston stores, the network now spans most of the Greater Houston metro.
How the delivery works
Shoppers order eligible small items via Walmart's app, Walmart.com or the Wing app. Walmart associates load the package onto a Wing aircraft, which cruises autonomously at around 60 mph at roughly 150 feet altitude, hovers over the delivery address, and lowers the parcel by tether to a clear spot the size of a picnic blanket. Payloads are capped at about 2.5 pounds, which keeps the service focused on last-mile essentials like baby food, cold medicine, snacks and forgotten cookout ingredients — Walmart says the fastest recorded delivery to date was 4 minutes 44 seconds.
Part of a national push
The Houston expansion lands weeks after Walmart passed one million lifetime drone deliveries and named seven new metros — Memphis, New Orleans, Philadelphia, Phoenix, San Diego, the San Francisco Bay Area and Salt Lake City — as its next drone-delivery markets. Combined with existing coverage in Dallas-Fort Worth, Atlanta, Charlotte and Northwest Arkansas, the two companies are pushing toward a stated goal of drone delivery from more than 270 Walmart stores reaching 40 million Americans by 2027. Walmart said Texas alone has now recorded more than 200,000 drone deliveries.
Why Greater Houston
"This is our most ambitious year yet as we work with Walmart to deliver to more customers by drone than ever before, and there's no better place to start than Greater Houston," Wing Chief Business Officer Heather Rivera said. Walmart eCommerce Fulfillment Transformation SVP Greg Cathey added that "expanding into new markets with Wing allows us to provide an innovative delivery option for customers, utilizing our vast store network." Wing's fleet is now operational alongside Manna Air Delivery in Tulsa and Amazon Prime Air in Baton Rouge as U.S. drone-delivery finally scales past pilot volume.
What's next
Walmart said 40% of its first million drone deliveries happened in a single quarter, pointing to the point at which drone delivery moves from novelty to habit. The next big variable is the FAA's expanded BVLOS framework, which is expected to unlock nested fleets and drop the marginal cost of adding new stores.
Reporting based on coverage from Wing, Community Impact, My Neighborhood News and DroneLife.