The Government of Yukon and Government of Canada monitor the amount of water in Yukon rivers and lakes. This data can be used to monitor current conditions and perform further analyses to determine the frequency of flows.
Get current conditions and seasonal forecasts
Active flood warnings and advisories
- Maintained: Flood warning - Lake Laberge - issued at 9:00 a.m. August 13, 2021
- Maintained: Flood warning - Southern Lakes - issued at 9:00 a.m. August 13, 2021
- Maintained: High streamflow advisory - Yukon River at Whitehorse - issued at 9:00 a.m. August 13, 2021
Previously issued flood warnings and advisories no longer in effect
- Maintained: Flood warning - Lake Laberge - issued at 10:00 a.m. August 2, 2021
- Maintained: Flood warning - Southern Lakes - issued at 10:00 a.m. August 2, 2021
- Maintained: High streamflow advisory - Yukon River at Whitehorse - issued at 3 p.m. July 23, 2021
- Maintained: Flood warning - Southern Lakes - issued at 3:30 p.m. July 27, 2021
- Maintained: Flood warning - Lake Laberge - issued at 3:30 p.m. July 27, 2021
- Ended: High streamflow advisory - Yukon River at Carmacks - issued at 11 a.m. July 21, 2021
- Maintained: Flood warning - Southern Lakes - issued at 1 p.m. July 16, 2021
- Maintained: Flood warning - Lake Laberge - issued at 1 p.m. July 16, 2021
- Ended: Flood watch - Kusawa Lake and Takhini River - issued at 10 a.m. July 15, 2021
- Maintained: Flood warning - Southern Lakes - issued at 10 a.m. July 13, 2021
- Maintained: Flood warning - Lake Laberge - issued at 10 a.m. July 13, 2021
- Downgraded: High streamflow advisory - Yukon River at Carmacks - issued at 1 p.m. July 9, 2021
- Ended: High water advisory - Teslin Lake - issued at 8:30 a.m. July 9, 2021
- Maintained: Flood watch - Kusawa Lake and Takhini River - issued at 2 p.m. July 9, 2021
- Upgraded: High streamflow advisory -Yukon River at Whitehorse - 5 July 2021
- Update: Flood warning – Southern Lakes - issued at 11:00 a.m. July 2, 2021
- Upgraded: Flood warning – Lake Laberge - issued at 11:00 a.m. July 2, 2021
- Update: Flood warning – Carmacks, Yukon River - issued at 9 a.m. July 2, 2021
- Flood watch – Kusawa Lake and Takhini River - issued at 9 a.m. July 1, 2021
- Upgraded: Flood watch – Lake Laberge - issued at 9 a.m. July 1, 2021
- Downgraded: High water advisory - Teslin Lake - issued at 1 p.m. June 30, 2021
- Upgraded: Flood warning - Southern Lakes - issued at 10 a.m. June 29, 2021
- High water advisory - Lake Laberge - issued at 3 p.m. June 29, 2021
- Maintained: Flood watch - Teslin Lake - issued at 2 p.m. June 25, 2021
- High water advisory - Southern Lakes - issued at 2 p.m. June 25, 2021
- Ended: High streamflow advisory - Liard River - issued at 2 p.m. June 25, 2021
- Maintained: Flood warning - Yukon River at Carmacks - issued at 2 p.m. June 25, 2021
- Upgraded: Flood warning - Yukon River at Carmacks - issued at 11 a.m. June 22, 2021
- Maintained: Flood watch - Teslin Lake - issued at 11 a.m. June 18, 2021
- Maintained: High streamflow advisory - Liard River - issued at 11 a.m. June 18, 2021
- Maintained: Flood watch - Yukon River at Carmacks - issued at 11 a.m. June 18, 2021
- Upgraded: Flood watch - Yukon river at Carmacks - issued at 12 p.m. June 14, 2021
- Upgraded: Flood watch - Teslin Lake - issued at 12 p.m. June 14, 2021
- Maintained: High streamflow advisory - Liard River - issued at 3 p.m. June 11, 2021
- High water advisory - Teslin Lake - issued at 1 p.m. June 11, 2021
- High streamflow advisory - Yukon River at Carmacks - issued at 3 p.m. June 11, 2021
- Ended: high streamflow advisory - Pelly River - issued at 3 p.m. June 11, 2021
- High streamflow advisory - Pelly River - issued at 4 p.m. June 4, 2021
- High streamflow advisory - Liard River - issued at 3 p.m. June 3, 2021
- Ended: High streamflow advisory - Nordenskiold river - issued at 10 a.m. May 20, 2021
- Maintained: High streamflow advisory - Nordenskiold River - issued at 10 a.m. May 14, 2021
- Ended: High streamflow advisory - Klondike River - issued at 10 a.m. May 14, 2021
- High streamflow advisory - Nordenskiold River and Klondike River - issued at 2 p.m. May 11, 2021
Other sources for conditions and seasonal forecasts:
- Water Survey of Canada provides real time data access to approximately 70 sites in the Yukon. These are mainly large rivers and lakes. It includes current water level conditions and preliminary flow estimates.
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Seasonal forecasts for major rivers are also provided each spring in the Yukon Snow Survey Bulletin and Water Supply Forecast.
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A year-in-review summary highlighting the winter snow conditions, river ice breakup, freshet levels, and major water events of the Yukon's rivers is provided on an annual basis:
Get historical flow data on small streams
- You can get historical flow data on small stream monitoring dating back to the mid-1970s.
- You can find more information on monitoring locations in the Yukon Water Data Catalogue.
- Email water.resources@yukon.ca for updated flow data for active sites.
Research data
We’ve conducted hydrologic and other environmental research in the Wolf Creek basin near Whitehorse since 1992. The long-term monitoring includes 4 stream flow stations as well as other climate and hydrology monitoring. See the University of Saskatchewan's Global Water Futures and Changing Cold Regions Network Programmes and click on number 12 to view this data. Current research is largely associated with the Global Water Futures project, a 7-year study dedicated to monitoring water threats in an era of global change.
Find out about long-term trends
Climate change has the potential to significantly alter water flows in the north. Snow melt, rain events, permafrost and glaciers control flows in Yukon rivers. Changes to any of these can result in dramatic changes to the timing and volume of flow. The Yukon State of the Environment Report tracks changes in water levels and flows over time.
How to protect your home against flooding
To protect your home against flooding, learn how to fill a sandbag and how to build a sandbag berm.