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State emergency managers outline scale of December floods; governor's office to file federal disaster request
Summary
At a Feb. 12 House Agriculture & Natural Resources work session, Emergency Management Division Director Robert Ezell said two atmospheric rivers dumped 20–40 inches of rain, flooding dozens of rivers and producing an initial estimate of about $180 million in qualifying damages as the governor's office prepares a federal major-disaster request.
Emergency Management Division Director Robert Ezell told the House Agriculture & Natural Resources Committee on Feb. 12 that Washington was hit by back-to-back atmospheric rivers in December 2025 that “dropped between 20 and 40 inches of rain,” producing widespread flooding and infrastructure damage.
Ezell, of the Washington Military Department, said 33 rivers flooded during the storm sequence, 18 exceeded major flood stage and three — the Skagit, Snohomish and Cedar — exceeded record flood stage. He gave preliminary tallies that about 4,000 homes were affected, 440 of…
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