Bahamas, Belize, Canada, Guatemala, Mexico, Turks and Caicos Islands, USA (B).
Vagrant to Cuba.
Breeds patchily in south-western USA from southern Idaho and Wyoming south to Arizona, New Mexico and south-eastern Texas. Migrates to western and southern Mexico (from northern Jalisco and Guanajuato, occasionally from Nayarit, south to southern Oaxaca).
 
Population
Estimated population is 400,000 (2010).
Virginia's Warbler (Leiothlypis virginiae) [XC320549]
by Richard E. Webster from Bobcat Ridge Natural Area, Larimer County, Colorado, United States (song)
Virginia's Warbler (Leiothlypis virginiae) [XC14956]
by Paul J Hurtado from Uncompahgre Plateau, Mesa Co., Colorado, United States (song)
Forms a superspecies with Nashville Warbler (Leiothlypis ruficapilla), sometimes with Colima Warbler (Leiothlypis crissalis) also included and all have been considered conspecific, but such an arrangement not generally accepted.