Museum Fire

The Flagstaff City Council on Tuesday is set to give an update on mitigation efforts in the Museum Fire flood area on the city’s east side.

City of Flagstaff officials are reminding residents in the Museum Fire flood area that the threat of flash flooding still exists despite extensive mitigation put in place in the last year.

A powerful monsoon deluge Friday afternoon brought widespread flooding to Flagstaff neighborhoods. It was the third time this week that flooding from recent wildfire burn scars inundated neighborhoods.

Powerful thunderstorms caused widespread flooding across Flagstaff Wednesday. Highway 180 was temporarily closed due to flooding across the road coming from the recent Pipeline Fire scar. Emergency sirens were activated in east Flagstaff for areas below the Museum Fire scar.

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.

The City of Flagstaff will end its Museum Fire flood area sandbag efforts in the coming weeks throughout the Sunnyside and Grandview neighborhoods.

A new emergency siren will alert residents of east Flagstaff of imminent flash floods from the Museum Fire scar. KNAU’s Melissa Sevigny reports, the system was tested for the first time today.

Coconino County officials have released guidelines regarding flood preparedness and mitigation efforts by the County Flood Control District for areas impacted by the Pipeline and Haywire Fires.

Forest Service officials will temporarily close certain areas of both the Coconino and Kaibab national forests beginning Friday and Saturday due to fire danger. The move comes as several large wildfires burn across northern Arizona.

Local officials on Friday will test a siren designed to alert people in the Museum Fire flood area including the Grandview Homes and Sunnyside areas.