The monitoring network within this area

Hydrionis holds 3,432 values from 12 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

3,432

Values held

1906–2026

Record spans

Gauges within the Upper Deschutes huc8 subbasin

12 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 METOLIUS RIVER NEAR GRANDVIEW, OR

The highest instantaneous discharge the publisher recorded in each year — a flood peak as measured, not a daily average of one. 1913–2025.

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.

View the data behind this chart

Underlying data
Period	METOLIUS RIVER NEAR GRANDVIEW, OR (m³/s)
1913	58.6
1921	119
1923	164
1925	83.0
1926	62.3
1927	110
1928	48.7
1929	48.7
1931	83.0
1932	54.7
1933	78.7
1934	62.3
1936	52.7
1937	58.3
1938	51.0
1940	46.4
1941	40.2
1943	145
1945	54.4
1946	87.2
1948	85.5
1949	62.3
1950	63.4
1951	78.4
1952	58.9
1953	95.1
1955	63.1
1956	81.3
1958	71.6
1960	58.6
1961	110
1963	86.1
1964	213
1966	52.1
1967	53.8
1968	81.6
1970	82.7
1971	91.2
1972	101
1974	124
1975	70.2
1977	45.6
1978	55.2
1980	69.7
1982	152
1983	79.9
1984	73.6
1985	64.3
1986	126
1987	50.1
1989	49.6
1990	72.8
1991	54.9
1993	68.2
1994	42.2
1995	83.3
1996	239
1997	146
1998	93.2
1999	125
2001	56.1
2002	79.6
2003	78.2
2004	55.5
2006	110
2008	75.3
2010	70.8
2011	112
2012	85.8
2014	99.4
2015	69.7
2017	81.3
2019	109
2020	51.3
2021	81.0
2022	83.0
2023	64.8
2025	73.1

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	1913–2025
Completeness	69.0% of the periods in that span are held. Gaps are drawn as breaks and never interpolated.
Known gaps	29 separate periods inside 1913–2025 hold no value. The longest runs from 1914 to 1920 — 7 years with no reading. They are drawn as breaks in the line and are never interpolated across.
Continuity	The record begins in 1913 and is not continuous from it: 113 years separate the first value from the last, and 69% 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 METOLIUS RIVER NEAR GRANDVIEW, 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. 1913–2024.

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.

View the data behind this chart

Underlying data
Period	METOLIUS RIVER NEAR GRANDVIEW, OR (mm)
1913	1,750
1922	1,687
1923	1,793
1924	1,562
1925	1,737
1926	1,535
1927	1,748
1928	1,668
1929	1,487
1930	1,439
1931	1,318
1932	1,489
1933	1,555
1934	1,585
1935	1,564
1936	1,514
1937	1,506
1938	1,620
1939	1,400
1940	1,354
1941	1,282
1942	1,355
1943	1,652
1944	1,312
1945	1,368
1946	1,518
1947	1,465
1948	1,559
1949	1,633
1950	1,856
1951	1,890
1952	1,794
1953	1,909
1954	1,865
1955	1,747
1956	1,980
1957	1,759
1958	1,834
1959	1,667
1960	1,647
1961	1,740
1962	1,664
1963	1,583
1964	1,648
1965	1,787
1966	1,591
1967	1,553
1968	1,580
1969	1,654
1970	1,616
1971	1,794
1972	2,004
1973	1,613
1974	1,904
1975	1,825
1976	1,810
1977	1,520
1978	1,492
1979	1,418
1980	1,520
1981	1,538
1982	1,820
1983	1,837
1984	1,766
1985	1,581
1986	1,673
1987	1,473
1988	1,487
1989	1,502
1990	1,470
1991	1,415
1992	1,365
1993	1,498
1994	1,336
1995	1,588
1996	1,999
1997	2,100
1998	1,799
1999	2,052
2000	1,865
2001	1,535
2002	1,632
2003	1,532
2004	1,600
2005	1,412
2006	1,740
2007	1,645
2008	1,745
2009	1,752
2010	1,687
2011	1,859
2012	1,953
2013	1,700
2014	1,866
2015	1,651
2016	1,673
2017	1,807
2018	1,613
2019	1,634
2020	1,509
2021	1,490
2022	1,586
2023	1,472
2024	1,556

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	1913–2024
Completeness	92.9% of the periods in that span are held. Gaps are drawn as breaks and never interpolated.
Known gaps	One period inside 1913–2024 holds no value: 1914 to 1921, 8 years with no reading. It is drawn as a break in the line and is never interpolated across.
Continuity	The record begins in 1913 and is not continuous from it: 112 years separate the first value from the last, and 93% 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

2 automated snow stations sit inside this drainage area, weighing the snowpack rather than measuring how deep it is.

1,670

Fullest snowpack recorded at Irish Taylor, in 1999 (mm of water)

236

Thinnest, in 2026 (mm of water)

April

Month the pack is usually at its fullest

July

Month the pack has gone by, in half of years

Peak snowpack at Irish Taylor

Water years 1979–2026. 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	Irish Taylor (mm)
1979	598
1980	780
1981	515
1982	1,288
1983	1,087
1984	1,318
1985	1,207
1986	1,035
1987	873
1988	840
1989	1,230
1990	363
1991	550
1992	324
1993	1,267
1994	628
1995	1,004
1996	912
1997	1,211
1998	789
1999	1,670
2000	1,043
2001	504
2002	1,121
2003	783
2004	1,186
2005	681
2006	1,171
2007	823
2008	1,263
2009	1,030
2010	806
2011	1,061
2012	962
2013	691
2014	701
2015	249
2016	875
2017	998
2018	586
2019	780
2020	670
2021	841
2022	746
2024	981
2025	1,059
2026	236

Read against the river

Irish Taylor and CULTUS RIVER AB CULTUS CR NR LA PINE,OREG. both sit in this drainage area, and their records overlap by 11 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 Upper Deschutes and what each holds
Gauge	Measures	Values	Record
METOLIUS RIVER NEAR GRANDVIEW, OR	burned area within 50 km, catchment area, annual maximum river flow, mean river flow, mean river flow, water year	350	1912–2026
WHYCHUS CREEK NEAR SISTERS, OR	burned area within 50 km, catchment area, annual maximum river flow, mean river flow, mean river flow, water year	274	1906–2026
LAKE CREEK NEAR SISTERS,OREG.	burned area within 50 km, catchment area, annual maximum river flow, mean river flow, mean river flow, water year	254	1915–2026
DESCHUTES R BL CRANE PRAIRIE RES NR LA PINE, OR	burned area within 50 km, catchment area, annual maximum river flow, mean river flow, mean river flow, water year	246	1914–2026
DESCHUTES R AT BENHAM FALLS NR BEND, OR	burned area within 50 km, catchment area, annual maximum river flow, mean river flow, mean river flow, water year	236	1907–2026
CULTUS CR AB CRANE PRAIRIE RES NR LA PINE,OREG.	burned area within 50 km, catchment area, annual maximum river flow, mean river flow, mean river flow, water year	198	1924–2026
DEER CR AB CRANE PRAIRIE RES NR LA PINE,OREG.	burned area within 50 km, catchment area, annual maximum river flow, mean river flow, mean river flow, water year	197	1924–2026
TUMALO CREEK PLUS COL SO CA, NR TUMALA, OR	burned area within 50 km, catchment area, annual maximum river flow, mean river flow, mean river flow, water year	193	1923–2026
CULTUS RIVER AB CULTUS CR NR LA PINE,OREG.	burned area within 50 km, catchment area, annual maximum river flow, mean river flow, mean river flow, water year	191	1923–2026
DESCHUTES RIVER BELOW BEND,OREG.	catchment area, annual maximum river flow	77	1915–2026
BROWN CREEK NEAR LA PINE,OREG.	catchment area, annual maximum river flow	52	1923–2026
ODELL CREEK NEAR CRESCENT,OREG.	catchment area, annual maximum river flow	45	1933–2026

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 — 17070301. 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
METOLIUS RIVER NEAR GRANDVIEW, 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
WHYCHUS CREEK NEAR SISTERS, 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
LAKE CREEK NEAR SISTERS,OREG.	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 R BL CRANE PRAIRIE RES NR LA PINE, 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 R AT BENHAM FALLS NR BEND, 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
CULTUS CR AB CRANE PRAIRIE RES NR LA PINE,OREG.	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
DEER CR AB CRANE PRAIRIE RES NR LA PINE,OREG.	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
TUMALO CREEK PLUS COL SO CA, NR TUMALA, 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
CULTUS RIVER AB CULTUS CR NR LA PINE,OREG.	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 BELOW BEND,OREG.	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
BROWN CREEK NEAR LA PINE,OREG.	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
ODELL CREEK NEAR CRESCENT,OREG.	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	11	yes, 3 or more
Years spanned	121	yes, 20 or more
Values held	3,432	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), Upper Deschutes gauge records, accessed 2026-10-05, hydrionis.com/waters/united-states-upper-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 Upper 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 confidence2025-02-23

Source: USGS — National Water Information System, USGS site 14091500, 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.