2026 in Washington (state)

The following is a list of events of the year 2026 in the U.S. state of Washington.

Incumbents

January 1
* State minimum wage increases to $17.13 per hour, highest state rate in the nation, only behind District of Columbia. Bellingham, Burien, Everett, King County, Renton, SeaTac, Seattle and Tukwila will have higher minimums.
* State nicotine excise tax increases to 95%
January 5
* Organizers of the Skagit Valley Tulip Festival announce that the 2026 festival will not be negatively affected by record flooding on the Skagit River in 2025, which was earlier feared could harm bulbs. Hundreds of thousands of visitors to Skagit Valley usually attend the festival.
* The Washington Attorney General says he is aware of "allegations of fraud" in Washington, Ohio, and Minnesota, and says it is a local or federal matter, not under his office's jurisdiction, and cautions against "random vigilante people" visiting providers.
January 9 – Two snowmobilers are killed in an avalanche in northern Kittitas County.
January 17 – Multiple shootings in the Chinatown-International District in Seattle kill one person and hospitalize four others.