Alert archive / Washington / Red Flag Warnings
Red Flag Warnings in Washington, 2025
39 red flag warnings in 2025. An alert counts here when it covered any part of the state, so the counties below add up to more than the state. The archive of red flag warnings reaches back to 2005.
Red Flag Warnings by county
Each county as a circle sized by its count in 2025. Tap one for its archive.
- Red Flag Warnings
- 39
- Busiest month
- July14 red flag warnings
- Busiest day
- June 8, 20253 red flag warnings
Over time
By month
The alerts
Every alert, in the order issued. Times are local, Pacific Time. Each opens its own page with the text, the map, the radar and the sounding.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 8, 12:22 PM PDT | Red Flag Warning | OTX | Chelan, Douglas, Grant | 33 hr |
| Jun 8, 12:22 PM PDT | Red Flag Warning | OTX | Chelan, Douglas, Grant | 57 hr |
| Jun 8, 1:55 PM PDT | Red Flag Warning | PDT | Benton, Franklin, Kittitas, Klickitat, Walla Walla, Yakima | 3 days |
| Jun 10, 2:04 PM PDT | Red Flag Warning | OTX | Adams, Chelan, Douglas, Grant | 30 hr |
| Jun 15, 6:12 PM PDT | Red Flag Warning | PDT | Kittitas, Yakima | 27 hr |
| Jun 15, 6:33 PM PDT | Red Flag Warning | OTX | Chelan, Douglas, Grant | 26 hr |
| Jun 17, 11:52 AM PDT | Red Flag Warning | OTX | Adams, Asotin, Chelan, Columbia, Douglas, Garfield and 1 more | 32 hr |
| Jul 1, 2:23 PM PDT | Red Flag Warning | PDT | Benton, Franklin, Kittitas, Klickitat, Walla Walla, Yakima | 31 hr |
| Jul 1, 2:25 PM PDT | Red Flag Warning | OTX | Adams, Asotin, Chelan, Columbia, Douglas, Garfield and 2 more | 31 hr |
| Jul 7, 1:06 PM PDT | Red Flag Warning | OTX | Adams, Asotin, Chelan, Columbia, Douglas, Ferry and 8 more | 55 hr |
| Jul 8, 12:36 PM PDT | Red Flag Warning | PDT | Benton, Franklin, Klickitat, Walla Walla, Yakima | 31 hr |
| Jul 12, 2:41 PM PDT | Red Flag Warning | OTX | Chelan, Douglas, Grant, Okanogan | 30 hr |
| Jul 13, 2:40 PM PDT | Red Flag Warning | OTX | Adams, Asotin, Chelan, Columbia, Douglas, Ferry and 7 more | 32 hr |
| Jul 13, 5:50 PM PDT | Red Flag Warning | PDT | Benton, Franklin, Kittitas, Klickitat, Walla Walla, Yakima | 29 hr |
| Jul 15, 2:03 PM PDT | Red Flag Warning | SEW | King, Lewis, Pierce, Skagit, Skamania, Snohomish and 1 more | 33 hr |
| Jul 16, 2:01 PM PDT | Red Flag Warning | PDT | Benton, Franklin, Kittitas, Klickitat, Walla Walla, Yakima | 55 hr |
| Jul 17, 12:59 PM PDT | Red Flag Warning | OTX | Adams, Asotin, Chelan, Columbia, Douglas, Garfield and 4 more | 33 hr |
| Jul 29, 2:15 PM PDT | Red Flag Warning | PDT | Kittitas, Yakima | 57 hr |
| Jul 29, 2:29 PM PDT | Red Flag Warning | OTX | Chelan | 31 hr |
| Jul 30, 1:35 PM PDT | Red Flag Warning | PDT | Kittitas, Yakima | 33 hr |
| Jul 30, 1:54 PM PDT | Red Flag Warning | OTX | Chelan, Douglas, Ferry, Okanogan, Stevens | 29 hr |
| Aug 11, 1:11 PM PDT | Red Flag Warning | PDT | Asotin, Benton, Columbia, Franklin, Garfield, Kittitas and 3 more | 55 hr |
| Aug 12, 2:25 PM PDT | Red Flag Warning | OTX | Adams, Asotin, Chelan, Columbia, Douglas, Ferry and 8 more | 31 hr |
| Aug 22, 1:37 PM PDT | Red Flag Warning | SEW | Clallam, Grays Harbor, Jefferson, King, Lewis, Mason and 5 more | 3 days |
| Aug 24, 1:44 PM PDT | Red Flag Warning | OTX | Chelan, Okanogan | 24 hr |
| Aug 26, 9:25 PM PDT | Red Flag Warning | PQR | Cowlitz, Klickitat, Skamania, Yakima | 24 hr |
| Aug 27, 1:09 AM PDT | Red Flag Warning | SEW | Clallam, Grays Harbor, Jefferson, King, Lewis, Mason and 5 more | 44 hr |
| Aug 31, 1:15 PM PDT | Red Flag Warning | OTX | Chelan, Douglas, Ferry, Grant, Okanogan, Stevens | 20 hr |
| Sep 1, 2:07 PM PDT | Red Flag Warning | PQR | Cowlitz, Klickitat, Skamania, Yakima | 55 hr |
| Sep 2, 1:49 PM PDT | Red Flag Warning | SEW | King, Lewis, Pierce, Skagit, Skamania, Snohomish and 1 more | 55 hr |
| Sep 2, 2:12 PM PDT | Red Flag Warning | PDT | Kittitas, Yakima | 53 hr |
| Sep 2, 2:23 PM PDT | Red Flag Warning | OTX | Chelan, Ferry, Okanogan, Pend Oreille, Spokane, Stevens | 55 hr |
| Sep 5, 8:50 PM PDT | Red Flag Warning | PDT | Kittitas, Yakima | 30 hr |
| Sep 5, 8:53 PM PDT | Red Flag Warning | OTX | Adams, Chelan, Douglas, Grant | 30 hr |
| Sep 6, 8:38 PM PDT | Red Flag Warning | SEW | King, Lewis, Pierce, Skamania | 8 hr |
| Sep 15, 12:51 PM PDT | Red Flag Warning | SEW | Grays Harbor, King, Lewis, Mason, Pierce, Skagit and 4 more | 34 hr |
| Sep 24, 12:24 PM PDT | Red Flag Warning | OTX | Adams, Asotin, Chelan, Columbia, Douglas, Ferry and 6 more | 42 hr |
| Sep 24, 1:27 PM PDT | Red Flag Warning | PDT | Benton, Franklin, Kittitas, Klickitat, Walla Walla, Yakima | 34 hr |
| Oct 2, 7:48 PM PDT | Red Flag Warning | OTX | Chelan, Douglas | 34 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Chelan County19
- Douglas County16
- Grant County14
- Yakima County14
- Kittitas County11
- Okanogan County10
- Klickitat County9
- Adams County9
- Asotin County8
- Columbia County8
- Garfield County8
- Skamania County8
- Benton County7
- Franklin County7
- Walla Walla County7
- Ferry County7
- Spokane County6
- Stevens County6
- King County6
- Lewis County6
- Pierce County6
- Lincoln County5
- Whitman County5
- Skagit County5
- Snohomish County5
- Whatcom County5
- Pend Oreille County3
- Grays Harbor County3
- Mason County3
- Clallam County2
- Jefferson County2
- Cowlitz County2
- Thurston County1
The busiest days
Days with the most alerts issued, by UTC date.
Nearby
Alerts in force nowTornadoes on recordThe radar archive20242026
Sources
National Weather Service watches, warnings, advisories and statements from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's VTEC archive, which reconstructs tornado, severe thunderstorm, flash flood and marine warnings back to 1986 from the NWS text archive. Storm Prediction Center watches and mesoscale discussions from SPC's archive through the Mesonet. County centers from the US Census Bureau. Rebuilt daily.