Where to Get Sand Bags

City of Sparks

Tools will be available for Sparks residents and business owners to fill sandbags at the following locations:

- Cottonwood Park - Spice Island
- Rock Park
- Coney Island - west side of old Costco Building
- Glendale Park
- Standford and Coney Island
- Deming and Kleppe
- Glendale and Franklin Way / Meredith
- 45 Vista
- Kresge Lane and Bergin Way
- Freeport and Steneri
- Freeport between industrial and Marietta
- Glendale east of 21st southside parking lot
- 1755 Purina Way
- Baring and Del Rosa, Southeast Corner
- Shelly Park - Baring/North Truckee Lane

Washoe County

  • Fire Station # 5, 1500 Mayberry Drive.
  • Fire Station #13, 10575 Silver Lake Boulevard.
  • Fire Station # 14, 12000 Old Virginia Road.
  • Fire Station # 15 (sandbags only), 110 Quartz Lane, Sun Valley.
  • Sun Valley General Improvement District (sand only), 4th Avenue, Sun Valley.
  • Fire Station # 16 1240 Eastlake Boulevard, Washoe Valley.
  • Fire Station #17 500 Rockwell Boulevard, Sparks.
  • Fire Station # 18 on Diamond Peak in Cold Springs.
  • NDF Fire Station #38 on Timberline.
  • NDF Verdi Fire Station across from Boomtown.
  • Brown-Huffaker VFD 684 Geiger Grade.
  • Hidden Valley VFD 3255 West Hidden Valley.
  • Lemmon Valley VFD 30 Nectar Street.
  • Pleasant Valley VFD 3010 Lakeshore Boulevard.
  • Pleasant Valley VFD 12300 Old U.S. Highway 395 South.
  • Pleasant Valley Elementary School on West Laramie.
  • Silver Lake VFD 11525 Red Rock Road.
  • Wadsworth VFD 400 Stampmill, Wadsworth.
  • Washoe Valley VFD, 245 Bellvue Road, Washoe Valley.

City of Reno

  • The parking lot near the Nevada Peace Officers Memorial at Idlewild Park, 1900 Idlewild Drive.
  • The dirt parking lot at Horseman's Park at 2800 Pioneer Drive
  • The designated area at Mira Loma Park at 3000 South McCarran Boulevard (follow the signs to the designated area).
  • Dorothy McAlinden Park at 12000 Mt. Charleston in Stead.
  • The parking lot behind Fire Station #5 at 1500 Mayberry Drive.
  • The parking lot off of Booth Street at Reno High School at 395 Booth Street.

Information about sandbag locations can also be obtained by calling RenoDirect at (775) 334-2099 for Reno, (775) 328-2180 for Washoe County, and the Sparks Emergency Operations Center at (775) 353-1508. Residents are being requested NOT TO CALL THE EMERGENCY 9-1-1 system for sandbag or flood information in order to keep those phone lines free for life-threatening emergencies.

Local emergency managers are urging residents to maintain a state of preparedness including the ability to shelter in place at home by having enough food, water and other supplies on hand for at least three days. Residents are also being advised to avoid driving during storm conditions and to avoid walking through or taking vehicles through any areas of standing water.

Washoe County Roads Department
3101 Longley Lane, Reno, NV
Phone: (775) 328-2180

City of Reno Corporate Yard
1640 E. Commercial Row, Reno, NV
Phone: (775) 334-2243