The community and science inform Spokane’s climatic actions
Kaycee Downey, Planner II, 509,625.6500
Tuesday June 24, 2025 at 12:15 p.m.
A changing climate and events of climatic extremes – including heat, forest fires, smoke from forest fires, floods and drought – already affect our city. The communities of the city of Spokane can experience climatic impacts in different ways, such as disturbances of the local economy and daily routines, or impacts on physical and mental health, ultimately stressing infrastructure systems, affecting the well-being of the community and harming local ecosystems.
To build locations locally, the city of Spokane identifies the means to support the community in the face of climate risk growth. As part of Placeptokane 2046 Periodic update In full level, this effort presents a unique opportunity to Integrate climatic and resilience considerations in all aspects of the future of the city of Spokane.
The first step in this trip is to identify how The city of Spokane is affected and WHO is the most affected.
After months of listening to community experiences and understanding national, state and local data, the The risk assessment and vulnerability of the climate in the city of Spokane is now available. This technical report incorporates various perspectives and experienced experiences of a wide range of stakeholders and community members with large spatial data to identify climatic risks and vulnerability here in Spokane.
Read the complete assessment of climatic risks and vulnerability and annexes on the Climate planning web page.
How does heat affect members of our community? How do forest fires affect buildings like schools? What risks what is our local infrastructure like the streets and the pipes confronted the floods? Climate risk assessment and vulnerability helps us to understand and explore the answers to these questions, in addition to other climatic risks and community resources.
Climate risk assessment and vulnerability could not have been possible without time and experiences shared by the Spokane community. Your contributions have helped the project team to identify the additional climatic risks not captured by data and the analysis of documents and will help to prioritize the risks and ultimately actions to remedy it.
The next phase of climate planning efforts will work on the objectives and future local action policies to mitigate, adapt and treat climate risks. An early survey of policies will be available later this summer, and we will be back for more of your comments in the fall. We hope you will follow this trip and continue to shape the resilient future of Spokane.
Learn more about climate planning efforts in the city of Spokane Our website.
Do you have questions for the climate planning team? Contact us at climateplanning@spokanecity.org.
The climate planning project in the city of Spokane is funded by a state subsidy. The climate planning subsidy of the WA Ministry of Trade is supported by the financing of the Washington’s Climate Commitment Act (CCA). The CCA supports Washington’s climate action efforts by putting ceiling and investment dollars to reduce climate pollution, create jobs and improve public health. ACC information is available on their website.