Coconino County

Governor Doug Ducey has declared a state of emergency in Coconino County following recent flooding. Multiple communities in and near Flagstaff have been impacted since heavy monsoon rains began last month.

The highest spread was reported within tribal communities and Page.

The City of Flagstaff has declared a State of Emergency due to the impacts of monsoon flooding in areas affected by this summer’s Pipeline Fire. The Coconino Board of Supervisors unanimously approved the immediate transfer of $5 million from the General Fund’s emergency reserve to the County’s Flood Control District to address the ongoing costs of flood response and mitigation.

Flash flood warnings are in place through Thursday morning as multiple residential areas within the burn scars of the 2010 Schultz Fire and this year’s Pipeline Fire have already faced days of flooding.

More than two-thirds of Arizona’s counties reported high COVID-19 levels, including Coconino, Gila, Mohave, Navajo and Yavapai counties.

Early voting has begun for Arizona’s August 2nd Primary Election. In Coconino County, the Recorder’s Office mailed out more than 47-thousand early ballots to voters on the active voting list.

The Coconino County Flood Control district will hold a meeting this Thursday, July 14, 2022, to discuss flood mitigation in Flagstaff’s Doney Park neighborhood. The meeting starts at 6:30. p.m. at the Cromer Elementary School gym.

Coconino County’s Flood Control District is making an urgent request for volunteers to help fill and place sandbags in neighborhoods below recent wildfires to mitigate the threat of post-fire flooding.

Nine of Arizona’s 15 counties are now in a high level of COVID-19 community transmission including Coconino, Yavapai, Mohave, Apache and Navajo.

Fire restrictions in many areas of northern Arizona were lifted Tuesday following the recent monsoon moisture. The Coconino and Kaibab national forests are again allowing campfires and other activities that had been banned since early May following the Tunnel Fire.