August 7, 2026
Reliable flow information where your license requires it
Reliable flow data wherever your license requires it
HydroForecast provides streamflow estimates and forecasts that improve situational awareness and help operators meet license requirements, even when compliance points are ungauged or monitoring infrastructure fails you when you need it most.
Coverage for every requirement in your license
- ✓Ungauged and remote monitoring points
- ✓Environmental and minimum flow requirements
- ✓Emergency Action Plan thresholds
- ✓Dam safety and risk-informed decision-making
- ✓Stakeholder and regulator reporting
- ✓FERC relicensing documentation
Ungauged coverage
Forecasts that don't wait for new infrastructure
HydroForecast deploys at ungauged sites without local calibration data, delivering forecasts at exactly the points your license requires, gauged or not. Most rivers and streams have no gauge at all, especially across remote areas, smaller tributaries, and underserved regions.
Operational resilience
Never lose your reporting data
HydroForecast ingests multiple weather forecasts simultaneously and keeps running when ground sensors go offline. When Hurricane Helene took the USGS gauge on the Nolichucky River offline, HydroForecast kept running without interruption, predicting flows within 5% of the observed peak at a critical moment. HydroForecast acts as an important independent source of forecasts that keeps operators informed when observations go offline or lag.
Early warning
Act before conditions reach a critical level
HydroForecast alerts fire when a forecast approaches the flow levels that matter for your operation: license thresholds, reservoir stages, or the triggers in your Emergency Action Plan.
Probabilistic forecasts show the full range of possible outcomes, so every decision is backed by a data-driven outlook of the risks.
Real license obligations. Real solutions.
Hydropower licenses translate federal regulation and state policy into specific operating requirements. Explore examples of how operators use HydroForecast to meet those requirements when their monitoring networks can't cover alone.
Multi-point flow compliance
Meeting flow requirements at every downstream point, not just the dam
An operator of a large reservoir receives forecasts at the reservoir and critical compliance points, including tributary inflows the operator has no gauge for. The operator schedules releases to stay within license bounds at every point at once.
Stakeholder transparency at relicensing
One shared view for every stakeholder
A utility operating a cascade of hydropower plants shares forecast hydrographs directly with agricultural users, municipal managers, indigenous communities, and recreation groups through the HydroForecast dashboard, giving every stakeholder a common understanding of expected river conditions.
