Missouri DNR releases Flood and Drought awareness app with real-time alerts
Summary
Missouri Department of Natural Resources has released a free mobile application providing real-time flood and drought monitoring data statewide. The Missouri Flood and Drought app uses data from the agency's streamgage and soil-moisture sensor networks to display current conditions and forecast impacts. The app is the first product from the Missouri Hydrology Information Center, created in response to devastating 2019 floods.
What changed
MoDNR released the Missouri Flood and Drought mobile application, a free tool displaying real-time flood and drought conditions using data from statewide streamgages and soil-moisture sensors. The app allows users to sign up for notifications about flooding in their area and view how forecasted weather may impact different regions. Missouri is among the first states to consolidate flood inundation mapping, soil-moisture monitoring, and streamgage data into a public mobile application. The release represents the first step in growing the state's resilience to flooding and drought through the Missouri Hydrology Information Center.
Users and communities in flood-prone areas of Missouri can benefit from the app's monitoring and alert capabilities. The app is voluntary and imposes no compliance obligations on businesses or individuals. Property owners, agricultural operators, transportation users, and emergency responders may find the app useful for situational awareness, but there are no regulatory requirements tied to its release.
What to do next
- Download the Missouri Flood and Drought app from app stores
- Visit mohic.hub.arcgis.com for desktop access
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Tuesday, April 7, 2026
Users of the new Missouri Flood & Drought app can receive alerts about flooding in their area
JEFFERSON CITY, MO, APRIL 7, 2026 – The Missouri Department of Natural Resources has released a new app to raise awareness of flooding and drought conditions across the state. Developed over a three-year period, the free Missouri Flood & Drought app uses data from MoDNR’s network of steamgages and soil-moisture sensors to display real-time conditions, as well as how forecasted weather may impact different regions.
Now available to download through app stores, the app’s release is the first step to grow Missouri’s resilience to flooding and drought. Userscan also visit its desktop version at mohic.hub.arcgis.com.
“We encourage everyone to download the Missouri Flood & Drought app and explore its features,” said Dru Buntin, MoDNR’s chief of water resources. “Through this app’s services and capabilities, users will be provided with vital information and notified of danger during critical situations.”
MoDNR created the Missouri Hydrology Information Center in response to the devastating 2019 flood. The center’s mission is to provide accessible, user-friendly information to increase drought and flooding awareness.
“One of our big objectives is to make it easy for people to consume our streamgage and flooding data in the same way they would consume weather data,” said MoDNR’s Zack Becker, who oversaw the app’s creation. “Most of us wake up in the morning, and we check the weather. Up to now, people haven’t been as aware of streamgage data, even though it may have an even larger impact on the rest of their day if they are traveling through a flash flood-prone area or use a low-water crossing. By setting up notifications for streams in your area, this app will alert you to vital flooding information so you can avoid a route that could potentially put you in danger.”
In collaboration with multiple partners, the Missouri Hydrology Information Center continues to install a network of statewide streamgages to monitor water levels and stream velocity, as well as a network of soil-moisture sensors to monitor ground saturation. Data collected from these networks provide the information making the app’s monitoring and forecasting capabilities possible.
“Missouri is one of the first states to develop a platform like this,” Becker said. “Other states have flood inundation mapping, soil-moisture monitoring and other networks, but Missouri is among the first to distill all of the data into a mobile phone application for the public.”
You can download the app now at your preferred app store or visit web-mohic.hub.arcgis.com to access a desktop version.
The Missouri Hydrology Information Center continues to add streamgages and soil moisture sensors across Missouri in addition to acquiring aerial landscape imagery and searching for new groundwater aquifers.
Visit dnr.mo.gov/water/hows-water/mo-hydrology-information-center-mohic to learn more about the Missouri Hydrology Information Center and to access the Missouri Flood & Drought app. You can also read more about MoHIC at missouriresources.mo.gov/reinventing-resilience/.
Users of the Missouri Hydrology Information Center’s new Missouri Flood & Drought app can receive alerts about flooding in their area through signing up for notifications.
Contact Information
Communications Office
Department of Natural Resources
P.O. Box 176
Jefferson City, MO 65102
United States
Main 573-751-1010 Toll-free 800-361-4827 communications@dnr.mo.gov
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