Office of Emergency Management

Missoula County’s Office of Emergency Management, in partnership with the City of Missoula, will stand up a Type III Incident Management Team to coordinate COVID-19 vaccine administration throughout the county.

The Board of Missoula County Commissioners issued an official disaster declaration on Wednesday morning

Last spring’s flooding changed the landscape of the Clark Fork River to the point where the flood stage level has been reduced by nearly three feet.

Missoula’s 9-1-1 emergency communications system failed overnight, and several backup systems were also inoperable.

Many residents evacuated due to flooding of the Clark Fork River are making repairs and preparing to move beck in, several are still inaccessible due to high water.

After several long weeks away from their homes, over 60 families displaced by the Clark Fork River flood of 2018 may be allowed to return home sometime next week, conditions permitting.

A brief respite from the flood waters of the Clark Fork River is allowing homeowners who have been evacuated a few precious hours to check on their property, keep pumps running and retrieve medications.

After declaring a flood emergency in late April, the Clark Fork, Bitterroot and Blackfoot Rivers have flooded and hundreds of thousands of county dollars have been expended, so Missoula County Commissioners officially declared a disaster on Thursday morning, making way for state aid.

The Missoula County Office of Emergency Management made an emergency declaration at the end of April in anticipation of the high waters they knew would be coming.

Day two of the mandatory evacuation due to flooding on the Clark Fork River brought officials sharing with the media some updates on the flood response.