Updated: December 31, 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.

General Flood Emergency Information:

Emergency Shelter

  • VOA-Connect Coordinated Entry
    • Contact: 1-800-223-8145
    • Monday-Friday, 8:30 am-4:30 pm
    • Coordinated Entry is a process for individuals and families in Skagit County who are experiencing or at imminent risk of homelessness to access homelessness prevention services and resources. Applicants will be screened for eligibility, prioritization, and program matching for a more efficient and effective system to access appropriate programs.
  • Skagit Seasonal Winter Shelters
    • Adults: Check in daily at 2:30 pm at Welcome Home Skagit Resource Center (Salem Lutheran Church, 2529 N. Laventure Road, Mount Vernon).
    • Pregnant and parenting families: Intake required. Call (360) 854-0743 between 9:00 am and 4:00 pm or 360-764-1486 after 4:00 pm
  • East County SEVERE Winter Shelter- please check website to check if shelter is open
    • Mount Baker Presbyterian Church (45821 Railroad Ave, Concrete, WA 98237) operated by Community Action of Skagit CountY
  • Motel Stays- Unfortunately Community Action does NOT have resources for motel stays for people displaced by flooding.
  • Airbnb Donated Stays- 211 Connect- is doing a 7-day stay through Airbnb for individuals affected by the flood. For people to access this, they need to call 1-800-223-8145. To be qualify for temporary housing support, callers must meet ALL of the following criteria:
    • Be 18 years of age or older (ID or online bill required)
    • Have, or be able to create, an Airbnb account in good standing
    • Be directly impacted by the current flooding event in Washington State
    • Not have been previously unhoused prior to the flooding event

Resources

  • Sandbag Locations– please check ahead.
  • Sandbag Disposal recommendations from Skagit County
    1. The first recommendation – KEEP THEM! Flood season sticks around for quite some time so you might need them again this winter and early spring.
    2. If you are needing to get rid of your sandbags, you can drop off the sand (please be sure it is not mixed with any rocks or other dirt) at Skagit Soils (13260 Ball Road, Mount Vernon, WA 98273. Please check their website for their hours.
    3. The EMPTY sandbags can be brought to the Skagit County transfer station (14104 Ovenell Rd, Mount Vernon, WA 98273). Find more information about free flood debris disposal for affected households, including business hours and what can or can’t be accepted, on their incident page here: www.skagitcounty.net/flood

Community Action’s Critical Needs Vouchers are available for people who are 200% or less of the Federal Poverty level. Vouchers may be used to purchase items at local partner vendors, such as Fred Meyer, Farmer Supply, and Grocery Outlet for emergency food, clothing, gasoline, propane, hygiene, laundry and other basic needs items. You must have an ID to qualify.
Contact Resource Center nearest you for Critical Needs Vouchers:
Critical Needs Items:

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.

Crisis Cleanup– Call 844-965-1386 to request assistance.
Crisis Cleanup can connect you with volunteers from local relief organizations, community groups, and faith communities ready to assist with flooding-related cleanup like cutting fallen trees, drywall, flooring & appliance removal, tarping roofs, and mold mitigation. All services are FREE, but service is not not guaranteed due to overwhelming need. This hotline will be open until Friday, January 2nd, 2025.

This hotline does not provide assistance with social services such as food, clothing, shelter, or insurance. Remember, volunteers work free of charge and bring the tools and equipment needed to help you!

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

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.

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 sack lunch program in Concrete will be distributed at Mount Baker Presbyterian at 11:45a.m.-12:45 p.m. Monday-Friday, 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 12/19 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.

Supporting Neighbors the Most Effective Way! A key lesson in emergencies: the need isn’t always for items, but for the right items at the right time. Please do not collect or drop off clothing or other items at shelters, emergency management sites, Community Action or nonprofits unless they have specifically requested them. Financial gifts let us provide exactly what neighbors need, when they need it.

  • 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.

Giving Impact
Your gift to Greatest Needs supports neighbors in need, every day and during the flood emergency. We use donations to provide vouchers for clothing, coats, shoes, and essentials, and to supply food through our Skagit Food Distribution Center and Concrete Meal Program. Gifts to Greatest Needs let us respond quickly and flexibly to changing community needs. Give here.

Volunteer

Skagit Volunteer Center
Are you an organization or nonprofit that needs volunteers to help after recent flooding in Skagit County? Or, are you an individual or group who wants to volunteer to help neighbors in flood response and recovery? The Skagit Volunteer Center, is a program of Community Action that provides a FREE resource for organizations to post volunteer needs, and for volunteers to find local groups to help. Every day the Skagit Volunteer Center has over 200 nonprofit partners who post volunteer opportunities, and now there’s a special page specifically for flood response! Visit: www.SkagitVolunteerCenter.org.

    • For Volunteers- Check out the Skagit Volunteer Center website to see flood response needs from other organizations around the community.
    • For Organizations– you will need to either create an account or login to the Skagit Volunteer Center website. Please check ahead of time if you have an account set up with us. If you need help getting on your website, please contact us at VolunteerCenter@CommunityActionSkagit.org.
      • This takes about 5 minutes to complete: Note that to show up on the Flood Response & Recovery search page, your organizaton MUST add the “Emergency Response” tag to your volunteer need. 
      • Organizations with EXISTING profiles on the Volunteer Center Website: If you already have an agency listing on the Skagit Volunteer Center website:  
        1. Create a new “Need,” which is what the website calls volunteer opportunities; 
        1. then click on the “Emergency Response” tab, under “Interests & Abilities.”
      • NEW organizations: If you don’t have a listing for your agency on the volunteer website, you will have to: 

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.

Donations of Goods & Services

  • Large donations of food: Community Action’s Skagit Food Distribution Center’s warehouse and cold storage facility is equipped to receive large donations of food, and to distribute it quickly to 20+ food banks and meal programs in Skagit, San Juan and Island counties, and via senior food box deliveries to 260-300 low-income seniors. The Food Distribution Center is able to accept cases, crates and pallets of food, up to semi-truck loads that require loading docks and forklifts for transfer. For more information and to donate large quantities of email: SFDCadmin@CommunityActionSkagit.org.
  • Smaller in-kind donations of goods: Some nonprofit organizations and community groups listed on the Skagit Volunteer Center Flood Response & Recovery page may be equipped and to receive and distribute smaller donations of food, clothing, hygiene items and household good to distribute to their clients or the community. Visit www.SkagitVolunteerCenter.org for more info.
  • Large donations of goods and services: The United Way of Skagit County and Volunteers of America has stepped up to manage intake, warehousing and distribution of LARGE quantities of in-kind donations of commodities and goods. The United Way will distribute them to other organizations and individuals in need.