After the Old Trails fire, speculators began knocking on burnt-out doors with cash offers well under what these properties are worth. This site keeps a public, parcel-by-parcel record of every sale, offer, and solicitation in the burn area — sourced from county records and from neighbors. Check any parcel. Report any offer. Sell only on your terms, if at all.
The Level 3 evacuation zone from August 1 — Strong Road to Francis, the river to Five Mile. The fire crossed the Spokane River and burned east into Balboa and North Indian Trail. The green-ticked corridors are the streets currently on the ledger below; coverage grows as neighbors add their streets.
Every parcel below links to its official Spokane County SCOUT record — owner, sale history, assessed value. A sale under 80% of assessed value is stamped Sold Low. Coverage grows street by street as neighbors add parcels; if your street is missing, use the report form and it gets added.
| Parcel | Address | Status | Assessed (2027) | Last sale | County record |
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Three minutes here builds the record that protects the whole neighborhood. Reports go to the site's volunteer maintainers; solicitation reports are compiled for the Washington Attorney General's consumer protection division.
The buyers working this neighborhood are pricing your land as if the fire set its value. It didn't — your insurance policy did. Three rules protect you:
Your insurance claim pays on your home's pre-loss condition. A quick sale prices it burnt. Settle the claim — structure, contents, loss of use — before entertaining any offer. The order can be worth hundreds of thousands of dollars.
Get an independent appraisal of the lot and your rebuild rights before responding to any offer. The first cheap sales on a street become the comps that drag down every neighbor's appraisal after you.
No purchase agreement, no "letter of intent," no assignment of benefits — nothing presented in person or with a deadline. Legitimate buyers wait. Pressure is information: it tells you the offer doesn't survive a week of thinking.
One reality to know: this area is inside Spokane city limits, where fourplexes are broadly allowed by right under the city's housing code and state law. There is no rezone hearing coming. The leverage is preventing under-value sales, documenting predatory tactics, and policy pressure — through these channels:
Unsolicited under-value offers to disaster victims belong here. File at atg.wa.gov/file-complaint. Attach photos of letters and texts.
Ask for a post-disaster interim overlay and a pause on land assembly and demolition in the burn area while the neighborhood plans its rebuild (RCW 36.70A.390). The evacuation-capacity record from August 1 is the argument.
California barred unsolicited under-value offers in burn zones after the 2025 LA fires. Ask Washington's 6th District delegation to do the same for Spokane.
North Indian Trail and Balboa/South Indian Trail neighborhood councils, plus the Spokane Region Long Term Recovery Group (srltrg.org) — where this record gets shared, corrected, and acted on.