At-site flood frequency analysis is a direct method of flood estimation at a given site. The choice of an appropriate probability distribution and parameter estimation method plays a vital role in at-site frequency analysis. In the current article, flood frequency analysis is carried out at five gauging sites of the Ume River in Sweden. Generalised extreme value, three-parameter lognormal, generalised logistic and Gumbel distributions are fitted to the annual maximum peak flow data. The L-moment and the maximum likelihood methods are used to estimate the parameters of the distributions. Based on different goodness-of-fit tests and accuracy measures, the three-parameter lognormal distribution has been identified as the best-fitted distribution by using the L-moments method of estimation for gauging sites Harrsele Krv, Gardiken and Överuman Nedre. The generalised extreme value distribution with the Lmoments estimation provided the best fit to maximum annual streamflow at gauging sites Solberg and Stornorrfors Krv. Finally, the best-fitted distribution for each gauging site is used to predict the maximum flow of water for return
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