Updated: December 11, 2025
You can make a difference in hard-hit East County, and throughout Skagit! We will update our resource list below daily until the emergency passes. If you have updates about additional resources, please send to: SocialMedia@CommunityActionSkagit.org.

Our Mount Vernon Resource Center, Burlington Locations, and Anacortes Resource Center will remain closed on Friday, December 12, 2025.
Normal operations will resume on Monday, December 15, 2025

General Flood Emergency Information:

Emergency Shelter

Resources

Sandbag Locations- please check ahead. There have been reports of locations running out of sand. 

Burlington

  • Burlington Dike District 12, 1317 S. Anacortes Street, Burlington WA

East County- Concrete

  • East County Resource Center, 45770 Main St, Concrete, WA- has 100 bags for sand available to anyone who needs them.
  • Sandbags are available in Concrete, East of the Superior building off of Main Street.

Mount Vernon

Other

Due to our Resource Center being evacuated, we are unable to issue vouchers on 12/11 and 12/12. We hope to be able to begin issuing again on Monday, 12/15. Please check our website after 9:30 a.m. on Monday to confirm. Vouchers are issued at our MVRC M-F from 8:30-5pm. M-F: 9-3 at Anacortes & East County Resource Center.

Critical Needs Vouchers are available for people that are 200% or less of the Federal Poverty level (view graph). You must have an ID to qualify. If you lost your ID in the flood, we are able to work with you to get a new one. Vouchers will need to be picked up at in the office.

  • If you live in East County, please visit or contact Community Action’s East County Resource Center: (360) 416-1733
  • If you live in Skagit County, please visit or contact Community Action’s Mount Vernon Office: (360) 416-7585
  • If you live in Anacortes, please visit or contact Community Action’s Anacortes Office: (360) 770-4049

DCAP (Disaster Cash Assistance) is an emergency cash assistance program is available to people affected by severe weather events who are not eligible for other cash assistance programs. Unlike Temporary Assistance for Needy Families, or TANF, people without children and who are not pregnant may be eligible as well as families who meet the income and resource limits of the program.

To apply online visit WashingtonConnection.org and then call the Customer Service Contact Center at 877-501-2233 to complete the required interview. People can also call 877-501-2233 to complete the entire application process over the phone.

Have you lost food due to the recent flooding or power outages? DSHS can replace food benefits in a natural disaster. If you lost food purchased with Basic Food benefits, call the Customer Service Contact Center at (877) 501-2233 within 10 days of the loss. DSHS will verify the disaster and, if verified, can replace benefits for the food destroyed up to the amount of your monthly allotment.

If you need Financial help or resources for home repair call the National Red Cross Dispatch Line at 1-800-733-2767.

PeaceHealth United General
United General Medical Center is in the process of transitioning inpatients to home or other healthcare facilities due to flood risks. The Emergency Department remains open. We are reaching out to patients with hospital outpatient appointments to reschedule. At this time, our clinics in Sedro-Woolley and Burlington are planning to open on time, although some appointments may be rescheduled. For questions, call (360) 856-8800.

Community Action of Skagit County

Community Action’s Resource Centers in Anacortes, East County and Mount Vernon may be impacted by flooding events. For information about hours and resources anywhere in Skagit County, call: (360) 416-7585. Please check our Facebook page for current information about closures.

Energy & Utility Assistance Programs: All appointments will be done by phone for Thursday and Friday. Please do not come into our office as our team will be working from home. The Energy team will be calling our clients at their scheduled appointment times. Please be patient with us as appointments may run over time. if you have a scheduled appointment and don’t get a call from a energy team member, it is likely the energy staff may be having trouble getting through to you. Please don’t worry, we will be working with everyone who has a scheduled appointment with us.

East County Resource Center and Concrete Community Center:

  • The East County Resource Center is helping connect upriver residents with information, supplies and referrals.
  • Community Action’s daily sack lunch in Concrete will be distributed at Mount Baker Presbyterian at 11:45 and will continue daily unless supply chains are cut off and we run out of food.

How to Help

Spread the word!
 Have friends or neighbors who need help finding food, shelter or other resources? Send them to: www.CommunityActionSkagit.org/FloodResponse/

Share resources!
Is your community faith, club or business helping neighbors impacted by the flood? Send SHORT info with contact info and website links, if relevant, and we’ll add them through Friday 12/12 at 4:30 p.m. (We are giving our staff the weekend off!) Please send confirmed updates about resources for us to add: SocialMedia@CommunityActionSkagit.org.

Give money, not stuff!
A maxim in emergency management is: “The disaster always comes after the disaster.” Too often, generous people donate large quantities of clothing and other items that then need to be sorted and distributed, but that may not meet immediate needs. Please ONLY donate items to organizations that have specifically requested those items.

DO NOT collect items and drop them off unsolicited at shelters, emergency management sites, or Community Action or other nonprofits unless they request them. If you give financial contributions, those organizations can issue vouchers for those impacted by flooding to purchase what they need at local vendors, or the organizations can purchase the specific items someone may need.

  • At Community Action, we gratefully accept items BY APPOINTMENT to benefit our Family Shelter, Street Outreach, and other programs. You can find lists of the items we are able to accept here.

How will Community Action use financial donations?
Greatest Needs donations: Our Mount Vernon Resource Center, Anacortes Resource Center, and East County Resource Center help struggling families meet basic needs every day — AND during the flood emergency response and recovery. We use financial donations to issue vouchers so families can buy their own clothes, boots, shoes, coats, sweaters, scarves, tents, towels, tarps, sleeping bags, gloves and other items. Donations to Greatest Need means we can also use the donation to purchase food to get to all local food banks through our Skagit Food Distribution Center, or for our Meal Program at the Concrete Community Center. A donation to Greatest Need allows us to respond nimbly to quickly-changing community needs. Give here.

Volunteer

NO volunteers for Emergency Management: On 12/11 Skagit County Emergency Management asked that we NOT refer volunteers to them, as they cannot process new volunteers right now. They have asked that interested volunteers instead contact their local Dike District to see who needs assistance.

Dike Districts
Please check with your local Dike Districts and Fire Stations about sandbagging efforts. We have seen some may also need prepared food donations to feed volunteers.

Family Promise of Skagit
Family Promise has two church sites that are operating as emergency shelters- both in Sedro-Woolley.

Help after the flood: Every day through Community Action volunteers provide errands, light housekeeping, yardwork and wood chopping for low-income seniors and adults with disabilities. Other volunteers help get food to food banks through Community Action’s Food Distribution Center. Others help out at our East County Resource Center. Learn more or email VolunteerCenter@CommunityActionSkagit.org.