Overview
- Governor Bob Ferguson declared a state emergency and warned that lives will be at risk as flooding intensifies.
- Authorities have advised roughly 100,000 residents to evacuate statewide, including mandatory orders for parts of the Skagit River floodplain.
- Forecasts call for the Skagit to reach about 47 feet at Concrete on Thursday and roughly 41 feet at Mount Vernon on Friday.
- Hundreds of Washington National Guard members are being deployed to support water rescues, evacuations and other response operations.
- A Level 4 of 5 atmospheric river has dumped more than 300 mm of rain on the Cascades and Olympics, triggering landslides that closed stretches of I‑90 and U.S. 2 and cutting power to over 17,000 customers, with rivers remaining dangerously high even as the heaviest rain eases.