The monitoring network within this area

Hydrionis holds 1,598 values from 4 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.

4

Gauges

1,598

Values held

1897–2026

Record spans

Gauges within the Lower Deschutes huc8 subbasin

4 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 DESCHUTES RIVER AT MOODY, NEAR BIGGS, OR

The highest instantaneous discharge the publisher recorded in each year — a flood peak as measured, not a daily average of one. 1897–2025.

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	DESCHUTES RIVER AT MOODY, NEAR BIGGS, OR (m³/s)
1897	331
1899	453
1907	866
1909	416
1910	762
1911	306
1912	507
1913	388
1914	334
1915	279
1916	765
1917	411
1919	382
1920	479
1921	413
1923	1,235
1924	245
1925	544
1926	377
1927	917
1928	326
1929	210
1930	242
1931	445
1932	351
1933	283
1934	266
1936	317
1937	377
1938	430
1939	276
1940	326
1941	181
1942	379
1943	932
1944	212
1945	248
1946	459
1948	538
1949	538
1950	430
1951	552
1952	425
1953	558
1954	442
1955	237
1957	405
1958	507
1960	282
1961	1,150
1963	527
1964	1,906
1966	405
1967	259
1968	297
1969	283
1970	464
1971	496
1972	555
1973	294
1974	731
1975	447
1976	379
1977	222
1979	578
1980	498
1982	776
1983	609
1984	467
1987	223
1988	510
1989	264
1990	211
1991	195
1992	193
1993	439
1994	165
1995	487
1996	1,991
1997	1,141
1998	547
1999	411
2000	178
2002	268
2003	328
2004	348
2005	188
2006	937
2007	382
2008	289
2009	385
2010	289
2011	541
2012	413
2014	479
2016	266
2017	388
2019	711
2020	199
2021	283
2022	238
2023	300
2024	345
2025	442

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	1897–2025
Completeness	80.6% of the periods in that span are held. Gaps are drawn as breaks and never interpolated.
Known gaps	18 separate periods inside 1897–2025 hold no value. The longest runs from 1900 to 1906 — 7 years with no reading. They are drawn as breaks in the line and are never interpolated across.
Continuity	The record begins in 1897 and is not continuous from it: 129 years separate the first value from the last, and 81% of the years between them are held. The span is not the record.
Last read from the publisher	2026-10-01
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 DESCHUTES RIVER AT MOODY, NEAR BIGGS, OR, as a depth

The year's flow spread over the land draining to this gauge, in millimetres — the same unit rainfall is measured in. 1898–2024.

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.

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Underlying data
Period	DESCHUTES RIVER AT MOODY, NEAR BIGGS, OR (mm)
1898	206
1899	275
1907	262
1908	214
1909	230
1910	244
1911	193
1912	236
1913	216
1914	196
1915	163
1916	237
1917	209
1918	181
1919	185
1920	171
1921	233
1922	199
1923	199
1924	161
1925	192
1926	158
1927	204
1928	185
1929	155
1930	143
1931	136
1932	165
1933	168
1934	154
1935	158
1936	169
1937	169
1938	201
1939	149
1940	154
1941	144
1942	169
1943	227
1944	145
1945	159
1946	196
1947	166
1948	193
1949	199
1950	219
1951	235
1952	204
1953	223
1954	212
1955	194
1956	243
1957	202
1958	219
1959	176
1960	176
1961	187
1962	190
1963	178
1964	158
1965	206
1966	169
1967	166
1968	160
1969	182
1970	185
1971	200
1972	234
1973	174
1974	229
1975	216
1976	205
1977	163
1978	188
1979	180
1980	188
1981	184
1982	221
1983	246
1984	246
1985	187
1986	215
1987	172
1988	169
1989	180
1990	159
1991	153
1992	149
1993	183
1994	142
1995	188
1996	241
1997	250
1998	210
1999	227
2000	204
2001	155
2002	167
2003	162
2004	178
2005	161
2006	221
2007	184
2008	187
2009	189
2010	191
2011	213
2012	213
2013	176
2014	197
2015	171
2016	181
2017	210
2018	165
2019	179
2020	155
2021	154
2022	160
2023	161
2024	176

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	Derived Computed by Hydrionis
Period held	1898–2024
Completeness	94.5% of the periods in that span are held. Gaps are drawn as breaks and never interpolated.
Known gaps	One period inside 1898–2024 holds no value: 1900 to 1906, 7 years with no reading. It is drawn as a break in the line and is never interpolated across.
Continuity	The record begins in 1898 and is not continuous from it: 127 years separate the first value from the last, and 94% of the years between them are held. The span is not the record.
Inputs last read	2026-10-01 · when the records this was computed from were last read from their publishers
Calculation date	2026-08-24 · when the calculation method was last versioned, not a reading of any publisher
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

The snow standing above this water

1 automated snow station sits inside this drainage area, weighing the snowpack rather than measuring how deep it is.

655

Fullest snowpack recorded at Clear Lake, in 2008 (mm of water)

31

Thinnest, in 2015 (mm of water)

March

Month the pack is usually at its fullest

May

Month the pack has gone by, in half of years

Peak snowpack at Clear Lake

Water years 1981–2026. Each point is the fullest month of that snow season.

A water year runs October to September and is named for the year it ends, so the snow of one winter stays in one point. The value is the fullest month, not the fullest day: a pack that peaked sharply mid-month reads lower here than a single measurement taken at the right moment would.

View the data behind this chart

Underlying data
Period	Clear Lake (mm)
1981	35.0
1982	440
1983	361
1984	270
1985	488
1986	308
1987	205
1988	298
1989	445
1990	416
1991	159
1992	43.0
1993	323
1994	208
1995	269
1996	315
1997	600
1998	424
1999	609
2000	480
2001	192
2002	606
2003	156
2004	320
2005	55.0
2006	440
2007	248
2008	655
2009	400
2010	80.0
2011	303
2012	334
2013	238
2014	167
2015	31.0
2016	220
2017	394
2018	134
2019	291
2020	144
2021	295
2022	281
2023	323
2024	238
2025	180
2026	37.0

Read against the river

Clear Lake and DESCHUTES RIVER NEAR MADRAS, OR both sit in this drainage area, and their records overlap by 44 years. That is the span the two have in common, not a count of years both actually hold — either record may have gaps inside it. The two are shown separately rather than on one axis: millimetres of stored water and cubic metres per second are not commensurable, and a difference between them would mean nothing.

Being in the same drainage area does not put the snowpack upstream of the gauge. A subbasin is an area, and snow on one tributary can join the river below a gauge on another — so a weak relationship here may say more about which tributary was measured than about the snow.

Every gauge Hydrionis holds within this area

Gauges within the Lower Deschutes and what each holds
Gauge	Measures	Values	Record
DESCHUTES RIVER AT MOODY, NEAR BIGGS, OR	burned area within 50 km, catchment area, annual maximum river flow, mean river flow, mean river flow, water year	398	1897–2026
DESCHUTES RIVER NEAR MADRAS, OR	burned area within 50 km, catchment area, annual maximum river flow, mean river flow, mean river flow, water year	340	1924–2026
WHITE RIVER BELOW TYGH VALLEY, OR	burned area within 50 km, catchment area, annual maximum river flow, mean river flow, mean river flow, water year	268	1917–2026
SHITIKE CREEK NEAR WARM SPRINGS, OR	catchment area, annual maximum river flow	40	1912–2026

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 — 17070306. 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
DESCHUTES RIVER AT MOODY, NEAR BIGGS, OR	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	2026-10-02
DESCHUTES RIVER NEAR MADRAS, OR	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	2026-10-02
WHITE RIVER BELOW TYGH VALLEY, OR	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	2026-10-02
SHITIKE CREEK NEAR WARM SPRINGS, OR	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	2026-10-02

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 5 of them, which makes it a full profile.

Information-gain signals held for this water body
Signal	Held	Counts
Gauges holding a real record	3	yes, 3 or more
Years spanned	130	yes, 20 or more
Values held	1,598	yes, 1000 or more
Distinct measurements	6	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), Lower Deschutes gauge records, accessed 2026-10-05, hydrionis.com/waters/united-states-lower-deschutes/

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 Lower Deschutes 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 confidence2025-02-25

Source: USGS — National Water Information System, USGS site 14103000, 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 1 October 2026.