Environment

Drone video from the Nooksack River at Slater Road shows a field of water. The flooding heavily impacts Lummi Nation, as there is now only one access point onto the land.

We're tracking prolonged and renewed river flooding ahead for Seattle and Western Washington this week. There will be rounds of rain and wind.

Several miles of highway are shut down with no estimated time of reopening as state officials continue to assess flood damage and standing water on roadways across the western Washington region following a severe atmospheric river last week.

Washington skiers will have to wait a little longer if they hope to hit the slopes as we close out 2025. With a devastating atmospheric river hitting northern communities, Stevens Pass Ski Resort is the latest to experience closures.

National Guard members in Washington remain on the ground to assist with thousands of sand bags, door-to-door evacuations, traffic control, and rescue operations ahead more flooding this week.

On Saturday, Governor Bob Ferguson, Senator Patty Murray and Senator Maria Cantwell met with Mount Vernon Mayor Peter Donovan to visit one of the areas hit by the historic floods and to see firsthand how the flood wall there held up.

Residents in the Stehekin Valley have been ordered to evacuate ahead of incoming heavy rain threatening already fragile slide areas.

While the worst of the flooding is over and the atmospheric river drying out, communities in western Washington are now left with a long cleanup ahead of them.

After floodwaters invaded the community of Burlington on Friday morning, forcing the evacuation of the entire town, the governor told around 10,000 residents to leave their homes and businesses since that time. 

Historic flooding in the region, a widespread power outage and road closures have led to Leavenworth's Christmastown festival being canceled this weekend.

FOX 13 continues to track major flooding across western Washington on Friday, causing road closures, evacuations and widespread impacts.