diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index bd02d0c5ff27..a8adea6e1986 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -32,6 +32,7 @@
 - [[PR 1172]](https://github.com/parthenon-hpc-lab/parthenon/pull/1172) Make parthenon manager robust against external MPI init and finalize calls
 
 ### Fixed (not changing behavior/API/variables/...)
+- [[PR 1249]](https://github.com/parthenon-hpc-lab/parthenon/pull/1249) Fix flux metadata propagation in sparse pools
 - [[PR 1241]](https://github.com/parthenon-hpc-lab/parthenon/pull/1241) Emit an error message when using uninitialized multigrid blocks
 - [[PR 1248]](https://github.com/parthenon-hpc-lab/parthenon/pull/1248) Fix edge case regarding AMR de-refinement logic
 - [[PR 1240]](https://github.com/parthenon-hpc-lab/parthenon/pull/1240) Fix I/O for CellMemAligned variables
diff --git a/src/interface/sparse_pool.cpp b/src/interface/sparse_pool.cpp
index 12897c5659fe..7391b3634149 100644
--- a/src/interface/sparse_pool.cpp
+++ b/src/interface/sparse_pool.cpp
@@ -57,10 +57,13 @@ MakeSparseVarMetadataImpl(Metadata *in, const std::vector<int> &shape,
                           const MetadataFlag *vector_tensor,
                           const std::vector<std::string> &component_labels) {
   // copy shared metadata
+  auto flx_metadata = in->IsSet(Metadata::WithFluxes) ? in->GetSPtrFluxMetadata()
+                                                      : std::make_shared<Metadata>();
   auto this_metadata = std::make_shared<Metadata>(
-      in->Flags(), shape.size() > 0 ? shape : in->Shape(),
+      in->Flags(), flx_metadata->Flags(), shape.size() > 0 ? shape : in->Shape(),
       component_labels.size() > 0 ? component_labels : in->getComponentLabels(),
-      in->getAssociated(), in->GetRefinementFunctions());
+      in->getAssociated(), in->GetRefinementFunctions(),
+      flx_metadata->GetRefinementFunctions());
 
   this_metadata->SetSparseThresholds(in->GetAllocationThreshold(),
                                      in->GetDeallocationThreshold(),