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Clark County Fair attendance down 7% from 2025

Manager: Annual event has gotten better if not bigger

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A crowd of visitors take part in opening day festivities during the annual Clark County Fair on Aug. 7. (Amanda Cowan/The Columbian files)

Despite near-ideal weather and strong crowds at its headline events, the 2026 Clark County Fair drew 19,000 fewer people than the previous year.

About 246,000 people attended the fair this year, a 7 percent decline from 2025 and the lowest attendance since 2019, when 242,000 people attended. The annual event, which was not held in 2020 and 2021, drew about 267,800 people in 2024 — a post-pandemic high — and 265,000 in 2025.

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