Yakima County, WA Garage & Yard Sales: Frequency, Duration & Permits (2026)

020(9) permits yard or garage sales as an accessory use to a dwelling, but only within strict frequency and duration limits: no more than two yard or garage sales per dwelling unit each year, and no single sale may run longer than three days. 070, backs this up by defining a 'yard sale' as a temporary event surplussing unwanted items as an accessory use to a residence or business that does not exceed three days or occur more than twice per calendar year; the term expressly covers garage sales, patio sales, estate sales and moving sales, though it excludes flea markets, junkyards, second-hand stores and auction houses.

18, a resident who exceeds two sales in a calendar year, or who runs a sale past three days, is operating outside the accessory use the county allows and can be treated as an unpermitted land use rather than an incidental residential activity. The rule applies countywide in the unincorporated area regardless of zoning district, since it sits in the general accessory-use section that governs every residential lot rather than in a district-specific table.