The monitoring network within this area

Hydrionis holds 400 values from 2 gauges within it. Discharge is a property of a gauge and its reach, not of this drainage area, so this page reports the network and its records rather than a single figure.

Gauges

400

Values held

1909–2026

Record spans

Gauges within the Klickitat huc8 subbasin

2 monitoring points, positioned as the publisher records them.

Flood peaks, as measured

This gauge's flood record, as measured. Unlike a daily mean it is the discharge at the moment the river was highest, which is the figure flood frequency analysis is built on.

Largest measured flow of each year at KLICKITAT RIVER NEAR PITT, WA

The highest instantaneous discharge the publisher recorded in each year — a flood peak as measured, not a daily average of one. 1909–2025.

Show relevant events (1 event)Shading marks when something was recorded, not what caused the line.

Published by the gauge's own operator from its sub-daily record; Hydrionis stores the figure rather than recomputing it. A year the gauge did not cover produces no value rather than a low one, and the gaps are stated below the chart. A peak is a property of this gauge and its reach: a larger flood upstream or downstream of it is not in this series.

What the shaded periods are (1 event)

A shaded period marks when something was recorded, not what caused the shape of the line. Where the two coincide, they coincided.

Documented record — A documented event, compiled from cited sources after it happened. The dates are as good as the record, which for older events can mean the month rather than the day.

Event	Type	Period	Standing	Authority
Hurricane Katrina water and sanitation collapse	Flood	2005-08-29 – 2005-09-30	Documented record	Compiled record

Not shown on this chart

The 1976 drought — This event’s area does not contain this chart’s subject. Sharing a country is not sharing an event, so it is not drawn.
The 2022 drought — This event’s area does not contain this chart’s subject. Sharing a country is not sharing an event, so it is not drawn.
Yorkshire drought — This event’s area does not contain this chart’s subject. Sharing a country is not sharing an event, so it is not drawn.
Cantareira water crisis, São Paulo — This event’s area does not contain this chart’s subject. Sharing a country is not sharing an event, so it is not drawn.
Cape Town Day Zero — This event’s area does not contain this chart’s subject. Sharing a country is not sharing an event, so it is not drawn.
European drought — This event’s area does not contain this chart’s subject. Sharing a country is not sharing an event, so it is not drawn.

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Underlying data
Period	KLICKITAT RIVER NEAR PITT, WA (m³/s)
1909	314
1912	190
1929	97.1
1930	173
1931	524
1932	227
1933	158
1934	199
1936	155
1937	192
1939	87.2
1940	230
1941	81.3
1942	142
1943	411
1944	60.6
1945	83.3
1946	217
1948	445
1949	490
1950	289
1951	351
1952	382
1953	309
1954	226
1955	114
1957	193
1958	210
1959	183
1960	157
1961	513
1962	113
1963	233
1964	192
1966	129
1967	168
1968	309
1969	156
1970	394
1971	277
1972	575
1974	1,342
1975	209
1977	35.1
1979	206
1980	251
1982	776
1983	405
1984	147
1985	122
1986	343
1987	180
1989	94.9
1990	134
1992	114
1993	118
1994	63.1
1995	428
1996	1,444
1997	572
1998	162
1999	273
2000	47.9
2002	189
2003	391
2004	96.6
2005	72.2
2006	323
2007	226
2008	158
2009	155
2010	101
2011	340
2012	419
2013	101
2014	222
2015	200
2017	274
2019	158
2020	110
2021	193
2022	127
2023	141
2024	201
2025	206

About this series

Everything below is a property of the data rather than a rating of it. There is deliberately no single confidence score: how much a gap matters depends on what you are about to do with the series, and only you know that.

Source	United States Geological Survey — National Water Information System · US Government work — public domain
How the values came to exist	Measured
Period held	1909–2025
Completeness	72.6% of the periods in that span are held. Gaps are drawn as breaks and never interpolated.
Known gaps	16 separate periods inside 1909–2025 hold no value. The longest runs from 1913 to 1928 — 16 years with no reading. They are drawn as breaks in the line and are never interpolated across.
Continuity	The record begins in 1909 and is not continuous from it: 117 years separate the first value from the last, and 73% of the years between them are held. The span is not the record.
Last read from the publisher	2026-08-31
Redistribution	Permitted by the upstream licences
Commercial reuse	Permitted by the upstream licences. No Hydrionis access tier can widen this.
Methodology	How this was produced

How much of the rain came back out

A discharge in cubic metres per second cannot be compared with anything: the larger number may only mean the larger catchment. Divided by the area draining to the gauge it becomes a depth of water over that land, which answers a question a reader already has — of the rain that fell here, how much came back out as river?

Water leaving the catchment above KLICKITAT RIVER NEAR PITT, WA, as a depth

The year's flow spread over the land draining to this gauge, in millimetres — the same unit rainfall is measured in. 1910–2025.

Show relevant events (1 event)Shading marks when something was recorded, not what caused the line.

Computed by Hydrionis from the published annual mean flow and the catchment area the station's own publisher states. It is not a water balance: the difference between rainfall and runoff is not evaporation alone but also change in groundwater storage, water abstracted and taken elsewhere, and water imported by transfer schemes — which is why a catchment can yield more runoff than the rain that fell on it without anything being measured wrongly. A different area figure rescales every value here by the ratio between them.

What the shaded periods are (1 event)

A shaded period marks when something was recorded, not what caused the shape of the line. Where the two coincide, they coincided.

Documented record — A documented event, compiled from cited sources after it happened. The dates are as good as the record, which for older events can mean the month rather than the day.

Event	Type	Period	Standing	Authority
Hurricane Katrina water and sanitation collapse	Flood	2005-08-29 – 2005-09-30	Documented record	Compiled record

Not shown on this chart

The 1976 drought — This event’s area does not contain this chart’s subject. Sharing a country is not sharing an event, so it is not drawn.
The 2022 drought — This event’s area does not contain this chart’s subject. Sharing a country is not sharing an event, so it is not drawn.
Yorkshire drought — This event’s area does not contain this chart’s subject. Sharing a country is not sharing an event, so it is not drawn.
Cantareira water crisis, São Paulo — This event’s area does not contain this chart’s subject. Sharing a country is not sharing an event, so it is not drawn.
Cape Town Day Zero — This event’s area does not contain this chart’s subject. Sharing a country is not sharing an event, so it is not drawn.
European drought — This event’s area does not contain this chart’s subject. Sharing a country is not sharing an event, so it is not drawn.

View the data behind this chart

Underlying data
Period	KLICKITAT RIVER NEAR PITT, WA (mm)
1910	604
1911	373
1929	274
1930	263
1931	244
1932	415
1933	559
1934	500
1935	381
1936	350
1937	367
1938	535
1939	264
1940	343
1941	284
1942	318
1943	517
1944	204
1945	273
1946	469
1947	392
1948	462
1949	497
1950	620
1951	642
1952	435
1953	491
1954	518
1955	420
1956	660
1957	376
1958	489
1959	404
1960	374
1961	553
1962	386
1963	361
1964	366
1965	411
1966	376
1967	366
1968	396
1969	463
1970	455
1971	560
1972	611
1973	359
1974	707
1975	538
1976	445
1977	268
1978	389
1979	241
1980	464
1981	355
1982	564
1983	642
1984	452
1985	299
1986	381
1987	307
1988	282
1989	308
1990	301
1991	278
1992	242
1993	289
1994	229
1995	595
1996	669
1997	683
1998	497
1999	606
2000	407
2001	212
2002	405
2003	408
2004	295
2005	226
2006	517
2007	405
2008	401
2009	362
2010	413
2011	528
2012	529
2013	359
2014	416
2015	376
2016	508
2017	631
2018	387
2019	331
2020	292
2021	339
2022	406
2023	381
2024	404
2025	419

About this series

Source	United States Geological Survey — National Water Information System · US Government work — public domain
How the values came to exist	Derived Computed by Hydrionis
Period held	1910–2025
Completeness	85.3% of the periods in that span are held. Gaps are drawn as breaks and never interpolated.
Known gaps	One period inside 1910–2025 holds no value: 1912 to 1928, 17 years with no reading. It is drawn as a break in the line and is never interpolated across.
Continuity	The record begins in 1910 and is not continuous from it: 116 years separate the first value from the last, and 85% of the years between them are held. The span is not the record.
Last read from the publisher	2026-08-24
Redistribution	Permitted by the upstream licences
Commercial reuse	Permitted by the upstream licences. No Hydrionis access tier can widen this.
Methodology	How this was produced

Every gauge Hydrionis holds within this area

Gauges within the Klickitat and what each holds
Gauge	Measures	Values	Record
KLICKITAT RIVER NEAR PITT, WA	burned area within 50 km, catchment area, annual maximum river flow, mean river flow	235	1909–2026
KLICKITAT RIVER NEAR GLENWOOD, WA	burned area within 50 km, catchment area, annual maximum river flow, mean river flow	165	1909–2026

How these gauges were attached to this water

Assigned by the publisher to a numbered basin Every gauge here is assigned to this drainage area by its own publisher, which issues the area an official code — 17070106. A drainage area is not a river: it contains the tributaries as well as the main channel, and a gauge in it may be on any of them.

What each gauge’s link to this water rests on
Gauge	Evidence	Established
KLICKITAT RIVER NEAR PITT, WA	Stated by the publisher — USGS site service, huc_cd field — https://waterservices.usgs.gov/nwis/site/ ; named from the USGS Watershed Boundary Dataset 8-digit HU (Subbasin) layer — https://hydro.nationalmap.gov/arcgis/rest/services/wbd/MapServer/4	2026-08-26
KLICKITAT RIVER NEAR GLENWOOD, WA	Stated by the publisher — USGS site service, huc_cd field — https://waterservices.usgs.gov/nwis/site/ ; named from the USGS Watershed Boundary Dataset 8-digit HU (Subbasin) layer — https://hydro.nationalmap.gov/arcgis/rest/services/wbd/MapServer/4	2026-08-26

What this record holds

Hydrionis decides which waters get a page, and which of those are offered to search, from what is actually held rather than from how the page reads. Five signals are counted; this record has 3 of them, which makes it a full profile.

Information-gain signals held for this water body
Signal	Held	Counts
Gauges holding a real record	2	no
Years spanned	118	yes, 20 or more
Values held	400	no
Distinct measurements	4	yes, 2 or more
Publishers measuring it	2	yes, 2 or more
Official identifiers	1	recorded, not counted

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No bulk download is offered here, which is a licence position rather than a product one: at least one contributing publisher does not permit redistribution. The values can be read on the page, cited, and pointed to at source.

Attribution and citation

Suggested citation for Hydrionis

Hydrionis (2026), Klickitat gauge records, accessed 2026-09-02, hydrionis.com/waters/united-states-klickitat/

Cite Hydrionis where you rely on values Hydrionis computed, on the method that produced them, or on the compilation itself. The underlying measurements remain the publishers’ and their attribution requirements apply to you directly.

Recommended, not required. Hydrionis does not claim rights over unmodified public data it relayed, and doing arithmetic on somebody else’s measurements does not make them Hydrionis’s. Cite the version and the access date: the Klickitat gauge records changes as publishers release and as methods are revised, and a citation without both cannot be checked later. Full guidance is on cite and reuse.

None of the contributing licences requires attribution. Crediting the publishers is still good practice and they are listed above.

Where these figures come from

MeasuredHigh confidence2025-02-24

Source: USGS — National Water Information System, USGS site 14113000, annual peak streamflow. Licence: Open.

Method: The instantaneous maximum discharge of each water year as published by USGS, dated to the day it occurred. One value per October-to-September water year; where the publisher lists both a systematic and a historic peak for a year, the larger is the annual maximum. Values the publisher marks as maximum daily averages are not held here, because they are not instantaneous peaks. Values marked as bounded rather than measured are held as censored observations carrying the bound. Cubic feet per second are converted to cubic metres per second and the publisher unit is recorded alongside.

Rating curves are extrapolated at extreme discharges, so the largest values in a peak series carry the largest measurement uncertainty. Data from the U.S. Geological Survey National Water Information System, a work of the United States government and therefore in the public domain.

Retrieved 31 August 2026.