Videos

Hurricane Isaias made landfall near Destin, Florida as a Category 2 storm on October 9, 2026. Tracking inland through Alabama, its remnants brought damaging winds, heavy rainfall, flash flooding, and life-threatening storm surge from the Gulf Coast to the southern Appalachians and Mid-Atlantic.

This recording of a public webinar highlights new features of Water Data for the Nation (WDFN) and the NWISWeb decommissioning effort.

Hurricane Helene made landfall in Florida as a Category 4 storm on September 26, 2024, bringing historic rainfall and catastrophic flooding across the Southeast. This animation tracks hourly precipitation and streamflow at USGS streamgages along Helene's path (Sep 24–29, 2024).

The Next Generation Water Observing Program (NGWOS) supports the advancement of water resources observations in order to assess water availability, management, and prediction across the US’s major hydrologic regions.

This video presents the Spring 2026 Saline Lake Ecosystems Integrated Water Availability Assessment Spring Seminar by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS). Narrated by Lisa Hoaks, the seminar provides project updates, summer 2026 field season plans, and recently published products.

January to March 2026 

This is B-roll video of the Kugururok River, Noatak National Preserve, Alaska from August 30, 2025.

This is B-roll video of Anatok Creek, Kobuk Valley National Park, Alaska from August 19, 2025.

Rusting rivers are increasingly common in the Brooks Range of northern Alaska. The orange stream color reflects oxidized iron (hence the appearance of rusting), but orange color also indicates elevated heavy metal concentrations and impaired water quality.

This recording of a public webinar highlights new features of Water Data for the Nation (WDFN) and the NWISWeb decommissioning effort.

This recorded webinar demonstrates how to access and use new modeled water data delivered through the National Water Availability Assessment Data Companion (NWDC). The NWDC is a centralized website providing USGS model-derived water availability, supply, and use information that underlies the National Water Availability Assessment Report.

This is an animation showing the changing conditions relative to the historic record of USGS streamgages from October 1, 2024 - September 30, 2025. The river conditions shown range from the driest condition seen at a gage (red open circles) to the wettest (blue closed circles). A purple outer ring around a gage indicates it is flooding.   

This is an animation showing the changing conditions relative to the historic record of USGS streamgages from July 1, 2025, to September 30, 2025. The river conditions shown range from the driest condition seen at a gage (red open circles) to the wettest (blue closed circles). A purple outer ring around a gage indicates it is flooding.   

The USGS and D.C.’s DOEE have been working together to monitor water quality in the Anacostia, in support of the District's goal of expanding access to the water for local communities. DOEE relies on data and continuous monitoring from USGS to support important decisions about public safety and the accessibility of the area’s natural resources.

This is an animation showing the changing conditions relative to the historic record of USGS streamgages from April 1, 2025 to June 30, 2025. The river conditions shown range from the driest condition seen at a gage (red open circles) to the wettest (blue closed circles). A purple outer ring around a gage indicates it is flooding.   

The USGS and D.C.’s DOEE have been working together to monitor water quality in the Anacostia, in support of the District's goal of expanding access to the water for local communities. DOEE relies on data and continuous monitoring from USGS to support important decisions about public safety and the accessibility of the area’s natural resources.

For over 15 years, the USGS has provided machine-readable and automated access to water data via the WaterServices family of APIs.

Discover what a career in science with the U.S. Geological Survey looks like. The Maryland-Delaware-DC Water Science Center is home to skilled scientists of many disciplines: hydrologists, geomorphologists, geographers, data scientists, statisticians, biologists, technicians, and more. You name it, we need it.

Westernport, Maryland was one of the hardest hit towns during the mid-May flooding in Western Maryland, where Georges Creek flooded an elementary school in Westernport, MD, prompting the emergency rescue of schoolchildren.

This is an animation showing the changing conditions relative to the historic record of USGS streamgages from January 1, 2025 to March 31, 2025. The river conditions shown range from the driest condition seen at a gage (red open circles) to the wettest (blue closed circles). A purple outer ring around a gage indicates it is flooding.   

This National Map training video will demonstrate how to use QGIS, a free and open-source GIS software, to import and visualize lidar point cloud data from the USGS 3D Elevation Program (3DEP).