Every active National Weather Service alert for Sedona in one place — flash floods on Oak Creek, fire-weather red flags, extreme heat, winter storms — with the county and city channels that carry an evacuation order.
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The weather alerts the National Weather Service has posted for Sedona right now — flash floods on Oak Creek, fire-weather red flags, extreme heat, winter storms — in one place, instead of five. Updated through the day.
No weather alerts for Sedona right now.
The National Weather Service has no active alerts for Sedona, as of Thu 9 July at 15:24.
A moderate breeze (about 23 km/h, gusts to 27), out of the west.
Strongest gusts forecast over the next 24 hours: about 30 km/h. Wind words follow the Beaufort scale. This is a weather model’s forecast for the hour, not a measurement — exposed ground above town will see more.
If a fire or flood forces an evacuation, the order comes through these channels
From roughly July through September, monsoon storms can put Oak Creek and the side canyons into flood within minutes — sometimes from rain falling miles upstream while the sky over town looks clear. A Flash Flood Warning means move to higher ground now; never walk or drive into a flooded wash or dip. The live creek height is on the town's Oak Creek flood page.
Sedona is served by two state routes — SR-89A and SR-179 — and in a wildfire they are also the evacuation corridors. Past fires have closed SR-89A through Oak Creek Canyon outright. Knowing your Genasys evacuation zone before a fire starts is the single most useful thing on this page.
At about 4,300 feet the sun is intense and afternoon temperatures climb fast from late spring through summer. The NWS issues Heat and Extreme Heat Warnings on its published scale; the town's "When can I be outside?" page breaks the day into hour-by-hour windows for hiking.
Alert data: U.S. National Weather Service, source weather.gov — a public-domain product of the U.S. federal government. Alerts are shown as issued; this page reads the active alerts the NWS has posted for Sedona. Wind forecast: Open-Meteo (CC BY 4.0). This page is not an alert service — sign up to the official channels above.