The National Hydrologic Assessment is a report issued each spring by the NWS that provides an outlook on U.S. Spring flood potential, river ice jam flood potential, and water supply. Analysis of flood risk integrates late summer and fall precipitation, frost depth, soil saturation levels, stream flow levels, snowpack, temperatures and rate of snowmelt. A network of 122 weather forecast offices and 13 river forecast centers nationwide assess this risk, summarized here at the national scale. The National Hydrologic Assessment depicts flood risk on the scale of weeks to months over large areas, and is not intended to be used for any specific location. Moreover, this assessment displays river and overland flood threat on the scale of weeks or months. Flash flooding, which accounts for the majority of flood deaths, is a different phenomenon associated with weather patterns that are only predictable days in advance.