Overview: Washington law requires cities and counties across the state to include Climate Resilience in their Comprehensive Plans. This work is funded by the Climate Commitment Act through grants administered by the Department of Commerce. An advisory team of Grant County residents helped conduct a climate vulnerability assessment from February 2025-September 2025 that identified key areas of vulnerability for the Grant County community. Major climate impacts include: high heat, flooding, drought, diminishing snowpack, and increasing wildfire risk. Goals and policies are currently being drafted to address these vulnerabilities and will form a Climate Resilience chapter to be added to Grant County's Comprehensive Plan, due for update in 2027. This survey includes a series of questions to gather feedback for the Climate Resilience chapter.
Additional resources related to this project can be found at the County's Climate Planning website:
https://www.grantcountywa.gov/1551/Climate including the full Climate Impact Report:
https://www.grantcountywa.gov/DocumentCenter/View/14207/Grant-County-Climate-Impact-Report-June-2025About Comprehensive Plans: Comprehensive Plans are long-range planning documents, looking ahead 20 years. Goals and policies in Comprehensive Plans are meant to be high level, financially feasible, consistent with other jurisdictions, and goal-oriented.
3. Please rank the following strategies for creating resilience in Grant County in order of your preference, placing the most important at the top and the least important at the bottom: Order the items from the following list. First select an item with the spacebar to show a menu of possible ranking positions. Next, click a ranking position to order it in the ranked list. Note the menu will display more ordering options as you add items to the ranked list.
Drag items from the left-hand list into the right-hand list to order them.
4. How do you view the dual goals of increasing energy generation and protecting habitat?
Note: A need for more electricity to fuel businesses and pump water for agriculture was identified as a top need in the vulnerability assessment. New infrastructure can disrupt habitat for native terrestrial and aquatic species.
We should pursue energy development at all costs to natural resources
We should prioritize protecting natural resources at the expense of energy development
5. How should the County approach the issue of water conservation?
We should prioritize conservation in all sectors (residential, agricultural, commercial)
Water conservation should not be a priority