Rural communities can be particularly susceptible to devastating effects of a global pandemic given factors such as decreased access to care, isolation, and insufficient broadband internet infrastructure. It is important to assess the needs of rural communities amidst the pandemic caused by COVID-19 to have appropriate resource allocation. To this end, 129 community college students from the Tahoe Truckee Campus of Sierra College were surveyed in April 2020, which was two weeks after the first stay-at-home orders were initiated by the state of California. Furthermore, community partners were contacted to help design the survey along with report on increased resource demand over the course of Summer 2020. Results indicated that students were anxious and depressed for a greater number of days after the stay-at-home orders compared to before (anxiety: Z = 5.41, p < .01; depression: Z = 5.70, p < .01). Thirty-seven students (32%) identified that food insecurity was a problem, with this affecting more Latino than White students, U = 738, p = .006. Fourteen percent of students, all of whom were White, reported that their non-prescribed drug and alcohol intake increased after the stay-at-home orders. The Sierra Community House reported double the calls to their 24-hour emergency hotline, a steep increase in food distribution, and higher levels of housing and utility assistance applications between April and September 2020. This exploratory needs assessment identified mental health along with food and housing security as areas of ongoing demand. It is important to further assess how the pandemic is affecting the low income and Latino populations in these rural communities and if there is disproportionate access to tele-health and tele-education.