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Coconino County outlines post-wildfire flood response, long-term floodplain planning for Fort Valley
Summary
County and flood control officials presented post-wildfire flooding models for the Rio de Flag watershed, described short-term mitigation needs including sandbags and barriers, and said long-term floodplain engineering and funding work is starting but faces federal funding uncertainties.
Coconino County officials on a community briefing in Fort Valley presented modeling of post-wildfire flood risk for the Rio de Flag watershed and described how they plan to stage emergency mitigation while launching a longer-term review of special flood hazard areas.
The county’s flood control director, Lucinda Andrean, said the county has used pre-fire and post-fire hydrologic modeling to show which neighborhoods are most likely to flood after a fire and what immediate measures would be needed. "Many of the homes will need to be completely surrounded by sandbags," Andrean said, and the county is planning staging and distribution that would allow crews to deploy supplies to neighborhoods quickly. She told the meeting the county’s planning estimates include "upwards of 800,000 sandbags" and that barriers will be needed for several miles, though the presentation did not specify…
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