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King County Flood Control District reports widespread December flood damage; $71.1M preliminary damage assessment
Summary
At its March 4 executive committee meeting, staff reported 386 post‑flood inspection reports finding about 163 county‑owned levee and revetment damages (≈32% of facilities) and said King County submitted a preliminary damage assessment of about $71.1 million to the state; staff will present cross‑basin reprioritization options for committee decisions.
Laura Bradstreet, King County’s river and floodplain management section manager and flood emergency director, told the Flood Control District executive committee on March 4 that the December 2025 flood was “unusual in its scale, intensity, and duration” and prompted an intensive, multiweek county response.
Bradstreet said the county deployed 46 inspection teams and produced 386 post‑flood inspection reports that identified about 163 damaged county‑owned levees and revetments, or roughly 32% of the county’s facilities. She said staff modeled a per‑linear‑foot in‑kind repair cost of $3,750 and used that figure in a preliminary damage assessment (PDA) submitted to the state of about $71,100,000; the…
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