Rivers

Rivers and flooding in Kansas

221 river gauges the National Weather Service watches in Kansas. Each has its forecast, flood stages and impacts, and its crest history.

Open the live map with the river flood outlook

Flood outlook

Significant river flooding over the next five days, and each gauge’s chance of flooding over the next three months.

No significant river flooding is outlined in Kansas in the next five days.

Most likely to flood, September to November

101 of the 146 gauges the River Forecast Centers forecast in Kansas have a stated chance of flooding in this period.

110 Mile Creek

Arkansas River

Beaver Creek

Big Blue River

Big Creek

Big Hill Creek

Black Vermillion River

Blue River

Bluff Creek

Bow Creek

Buckner Creek

Buffalo Creek (KS River Basin)

Chapman Creek

Chikaskia River

Cimarron River (KS)

Cottonwood River

Cow Creek

Cow Creek (KS)

Cowskin Creek

Crooked Creek (KS)

Cross Creek (KS)

Delaware River (KS)

Dragoon Creek

Elk Creek (KS)

Elk River

Elk River (KS)

ELK RIVER BELOW ELK CITY LAKE

Emma Creek (KS)

Fall River (KS)

Grouse Creek Near Silverdale

Gypsum Creek

Hackberry Creek

Indian Creek

Kansas River

Lightning Creek (SE KS)

Little Arkansas River

Little Blue River

Little Osage River

Lyon Creek

Marais Des Cygnes River

Marmaton River

Medicine Lodge River

Mill Creek (PXCK1)

Mill Creek (WSHK1)

Missouri River

Mud Creek (KS)

Mulberry Creek (KS)

N F Solomon River

near Yocemento

Neosho River

Ninnescah River

Paradise Creek

Pawnee River

Pottawatomie Creek

Prairie Dog Creek

Rattlesnake Creek (KS)

Republican River

Reservoirs

Rock Creek

Rock Creek (KS)

S F Solomon River

Saline River (KS)

Salt Creek (KS)

Salt Creek (LNDK1)

Sappa Creek

Shunganunga Creek

Slate Creek (KS)

Smoky Hill River

Soldier Creek

Solomon River

South Fork Ninnescah River

South Fork Republican River 14SW St Francis, Kansas

Spring River

Stranger Creek

Tomahawk Creek

Turkey Creek (KC)

Turkey Creek (KS)

Verdigris River

Vermillion Creek

Wakarusa River

Walnut Creek (KS)

Walnut River

West Branch Walnut River

White Rock Creek

Whitewater River (KS)

Wildcat Creek

Sources

Gauges, flood stages, impacts and crest history from NOAA’s National Water Prediction Service. Streamflow from the U.S. Geological Survey.