Last weekend, monsoon rains sent a flash flood rushing through the Grand Canyon. The massive surge of roiling brown water carried trees, rocks and debris into the Colorado River, leaving at least two people dead and damaging bridges and plumbing. … Floods happen throughout the canyon fairly often. It stretches across 277 miles and includes many side canyons, which spider out from the main channel of the Colorado River. The amount of rain that caused the recent flood, Crossey said, probably wasn’t particularly extraordinary. The place where those rains fell, though, is what makes Saturday’s flooding so unique. The heavy monsoon rains fell on the burn scar left behind by the 2025 Dragon Bravo Fire, which scorched nearly 150,000 acres.

Other monsoon flood news:

• The New York Times: How monsoon season supercharged the deadly Grand Canyon flooding
• The Washington Post: Deep in the Grand Canyon, the rain left them nowhere to go
• FOX13 (Salt Lake City): Gov. Cox: ‘Everybody marshaled’ for recent floods
• The Land Desk: Blog: Monsoon madness and Mormon Marxism(?)