February 24–25 – The second-highest wind gust ever recorded at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport, 52 miles per hour (84 km/h), is observed during a storm,[9][10] and a 60-mile-per-hour (97 km/h) gust at Boeing Field in Seattle.[11] It was related to a sting jet weather phenomenon, according to some meteorologists.[12]
March
Late March – Jeff Bezos sells a house in Hunts Point for $63 million, a record price for a private residence in Washington.[13]
April
by April 1 – Washington State Attorney General files or participates in at least eight federal lawsuits concerning Second Trump administration policies and actions, including DOGE, birthright citizenship, and federal funding for health care and research.[14]
May
May 1 – May Day protests in Seattle and other King County localities including the Eastside; Tacoma; Yakima; Bellingham; Lynnwood and elsewhere in Snohomish County; Olympia; and cities on the Kitsap Peninsula[15][16]
May 5 – Protesters take over a building at the University of Washington, demanding the school sever ties with Boeing. At least 25 people are arrested.[17]
May 14 – Valley Medical Center announces that it will close five clinics and two inpatient units at its hospital as part of the state government's budget cuts and the loss of federal Medicaid reimbursement.[22]
May 30:
A semi-truck containing 14 million honeybees overturns in Whatcom County, releasing most of the bees.[23]
Decker children killings: Sisters Paityn, Evelyn and Olivia Decker (ages 9, 8 and 5 respectively) are reported missing from Wenatchee after their father Travis Decker does not return them from a custodial visit. They are found dead three days later, and Travis Decker is charged with murder. He is found dead in September.[24]
Washington, Oregon, and California announce the formation of the West Coast Health Alliance to take over some of the CDC's former functions.[34]
September 5–7 – 2025 Washington wildfires, including fourteen fires burning in both Western Washington and Eastern Washington, four of them larger than 10,000 acres. Air quality was unhealthy in Colville,[35] and a "smokestorm" on September 5 caused "extraordinarily unhealthy" conditions north and east of Seattle, with the highest value of particulates ever recorded in Lake Forest Park.[36]
^"Atmospheric river pattern blowing into Grays Harbor". The Daily World. Aberdeen, Washington. February 25, 2025. As the storm intensified and pummeled into the Northwest Coast on Monday, AccuWeather meteorologists [Jacob Hinson quoted in the article] warned that an atmospheric phenomenon called a "sting jet" can occur. A meteorological term that has been growing in popularity in the United Kingdom since the early 2000s, a sting jet is a small area of intense winds that can develop underneath low pressure systems, causing extensive wind damage.
