The monitoring network within this area

Hydrionis holds 2,022 values from 3 gauges within it. Discharge is a property of a gauge and its reach, not of this drainage area, so this page reports the network and its records rather than a single figure.

3

Gauges

2,022

Values held

1922–2026

Record spans

Gauges within the Bear Lake huc8 subbasin

3 monitoring points, positioned as the publisher records them.

Flood peaks, as measured

This gauge's flood record, as measured. Unlike a daily mean it is the discharge at the moment the river was highest, which is the figure flood frequency analysis is built on.

Largest measured flow of each year at BEAR RIVER AT PESCADERO ID

The highest instantaneous discharge the publisher recorded in each year — a flood peak as measured, not a daily average of one. 1949–2025.

Show relevant events (1 event)Shading marks when something was recorded, not what caused the line.

Published by the gauge's own operator from its sub-daily record; Hydrionis stores the figure rather than recomputing it. A year the gauge did not cover produces no value rather than a low one, and the gaps are stated below the chart. A peak is a property of this gauge and its reach: a larger flood upstream or downstream of it is not in this series.

What the shaded periods are (1 event)

A shaded period marks when something was recorded, not what caused the shape of the line. Where the two coincide, they coincided.

Documented record — A documented event, compiled from cited sources after it happened. The dates are as good as the record, which for older events can mean the month rather than the day.

Event	Type	Period	Standing	Authority
Hurricane Katrina water and sanitation collapse	Flood	2005-08-29 – 2005-09-30	Documented record	Compiled record

Not shown on this chart

The 1976 drought — This event’s area does not contain this chart’s subject. Sharing a country is not sharing an event, so it is not drawn.
The 2022 drought — This event’s area does not contain this chart’s subject. Sharing a country is not sharing an event, so it is not drawn.
Yorkshire drought — This event’s area does not contain this chart’s subject. Sharing a country is not sharing an event, so it is not drawn.
Cantareira water crisis, São Paulo — This event’s area does not contain this chart’s subject. Sharing a country is not sharing an event, so it is not drawn.
Cape Town Day Zero — This event’s area does not contain this chart’s subject. Sharing a country is not sharing an event, so it is not drawn.
European drought — This event’s area does not contain this chart’s subject. Sharing a country is not sharing an event, so it is not drawn.

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Underlying data
Period	BEAR RIVER AT PESCADERO ID (m³/s)
1949	35.7
1950	74.8
1951	49.3
1952	44.7
1953	43.9
1954	39.6
1969	50.7
1970	34.5
1971	91.7
1972	62.0
1973	49.6
1974	41.6
1975	42.5
1977	46.4
1978	39.6
1979	43.6
1980	52.1
1981	41.9
1982	39.1
1985	71.4
1989	44.5
1992	45.9
2000	50.1
2001	46.7
2002	50.1
2003	43.0
2004	26.4
2005	35.7
2006	25.3
2007	46.4
2008	50.4
2009	36.0
2010	49.0
2011	41.9
2012	51.5
2013	49.8
2014	48.1
2015	49.6
2016	48.1
2017	51.0
2018	47.6
2019	39.4
2020	48.7
2021	48.1
2022	50.4
2023	47.6
2024	42.5
2025	41.3

About this series

Everything below is a property of the data rather than a rating of it. There is deliberately no single confidence score: how much a gap matters depends on what you are about to do with the series, and only you know that.

Source	United States Geological Survey — National Water Information System · US Government work — public domain
How the values came to exist	Measured
Period held	1949–2025
Completeness	62.3% of the periods in that span are held. Gaps are drawn as breaks and never interpolated.
Known gaps	6 separate periods inside 1949–2025 hold no value. The longest runs from 1955 to 1968 — 14 years with no reading. They are drawn as breaks in the line and are never interpolated across.
Continuity	The record begins in 1949 and is not continuous from it: 77 years separate the first value from the last, and 62% of the years between them are held. The span is not the record.
Last read from the publisher	2026-10-01
Redistribution	Permitted by the upstream licences
Commercial reuse	Permitted by the upstream licences. No Hydrionis access tier can widen this.
Methodology	How this was produced

How much of the rain came back out

A discharge in cubic metres per second cannot be compared with anything: the larger number may only mean the larger catchment. Divided by the area draining to the gauge it becomes a depth of water over that land, which answers a question a reader already has — of the rain that fell here, how much came back out as river?

Water leaving the catchment above BEAR RIVER AT PESCADERO ID, as a depth

The year's flow spread over the land draining to this gauge, in millimetres — the same unit rainfall is measured in. 1923–2025.

Show relevant events (1 event)Shading marks when something was recorded, not what caused the line.

Computed by Hydrionis from the published annual mean flow and the catchment area the station's own publisher states. It is not a water balance: the difference between rainfall and runoff is not evaporation alone but also change in groundwater storage, water abstracted and taken elsewhere, and water imported by transfer schemes — which is why a catchment can yield more runoff than the rain that fell on it without anything being measured wrongly. A different area figure rescales every value here by the ratio between them.

What the shaded periods are (1 event)

A shaded period marks when something was recorded, not what caused the shape of the line. Where the two coincide, they coincided.

Documented record — A documented event, compiled from cited sources after it happened. The dates are as good as the record, which for older events can mean the month rather than the day.

Event	Type	Period	Standing	Authority
Hurricane Katrina water and sanitation collapse	Flood	2005-08-29 – 2005-09-30	Documented record	Compiled record

Not shown on this chart

The 1976 drought — This event’s area does not contain this chart’s subject. Sharing a country is not sharing an event, so it is not drawn.
The 2022 drought — This event’s area does not contain this chart’s subject. Sharing a country is not sharing an event, so it is not drawn.
Yorkshire drought — This event’s area does not contain this chart’s subject. Sharing a country is not sharing an event, so it is not drawn.
Cantareira water crisis, São Paulo — This event’s area does not contain this chart’s subject. Sharing a country is not sharing an event, so it is not drawn.
Cape Town Day Zero — This event’s area does not contain this chart’s subject. Sharing a country is not sharing an event, so it is not drawn.
European drought — This event’s area does not contain this chart’s subject. Sharing a country is not sharing an event, so it is not drawn.

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Underlying data
Period	BEAR RIVER AT PESCADERO ID (mm)
1923	122
1924	91.0
1925	63.0
1926	74.0
1927	55.0
1928	52.0
1929	45.0
1930	48.0
1931	38.0
1932	26.0
1933	31.0
1934	34.0
1935	25.0
1936	29.0
1937	28.0
1938	32.0
1939	34.0
1940	33.0
1941	29.0
1942	35.0
1943	39.0
1944	30.0
1945	26.0
1946	42.0
1947	57.0
1948	57.0
1949	51.0
1950	96.0
1951	99.0
1952	86.0
1953	52.0
1970	36.0
1971	120
1972	109
1973	70.0
1974	70.0
1975	74.0
1976	68.0
1977	42.0
1978	30.0
1979	31.0
1980	76.0
1981	34.0
1982	68.0
1983	157
1984	159
1985	94.0
1986	165
1987	44.0
1988	42.0
1989	33.0
1990	36.0
1991	32.0
1992	39.0
1993	27.0
1994	40.0
1995	29.0
1996	32.0
1997	94.0
1998	101
1999	93.0
2000	52.0
2001	40.0
2002	33.0
2003	32.0
2004	19.0
2005	27.0
2006	27.0
2007	35.0
2008	31.0
2009	25.0
2010	32.0
2011	64.0
2012	41.0
2013	38.0
2014	34.0
2015	36.0
2016	41.0
2017	61.0
2018	55.0
2019	37.0
2020	47.0
2021	37.0
2022	37.0
2023	31.0
2024	38.0
2025	38.0

About this series

Everything below is a property of the data rather than a rating of it. There is deliberately no single confidence score: how much a gap matters depends on what you are about to do with the series, and only you know that.

Source	United States Geological Survey — National Water Information System · US Government work — public domain
How the values came to exist	Derived Computed by Hydrionis
Period held	1923–2025
Completeness	84.5% of the periods in that span are held. Gaps are drawn as breaks and never interpolated.
Known gaps	One period inside 1923–2025 holds no value: 1954 to 1969, 16 years with no reading. It is drawn as a break in the line and is never interpolated across.
Continuity	The record begins in 1923 and is not continuous from it: 103 years separate the first value from the last, and 84% of the years between them are held. The span is not the record.
Inputs last read	2026-10-01 · when the records this was computed from were last read from their publishers
Calculation date	2026-08-24 · when the calculation method was last versioned, not a reading of any publisher
Redistribution	Permitted by the upstream licences
Commercial reuse	Permitted by the upstream licences. No Hydrionis access tier can widen this.
Methodology	How this was produced

The snow standing above this water

4 automated snow stations sit inside this drainage area, weighing the snowpack rather than measuring how deep it is.

868

Fullest snowpack recorded at Bug Lake, in 2011 (mm of water)

228

Thinnest, in 1981 (mm of water)

April

Month the pack is usually at its fullest

June

Month the pack has gone by, in half of years

Peak snowpack at Bug Lake

Water years 1979–2026. Each point is the fullest month of that snow season.

A water year runs October to September and is named for the year it ends, so the snow of one winter stays in one point. The value is the fullest month, not the fullest day: a pack that peaked sharply mid-month reads lower here than a single measurement taken at the right moment would.

View the data behind this chart

Underlying data
Period	Bug Lake (mm)
1979	586
1980	592
1981	228
1982	809
1983	514
1984	726
1985	495
1986	815
1987	272
1988	400
1989	461
1990	335
1991	367
1992	234
1993	519
1994	407
1995	511
1996	642
1997	854
1998	526
1999	599
2000	345
2001	311
2002	438
2003	370
2004	390
2005	533
2006	651
2007	326
2008	473
2009	501
2010	280
2011	868
2012	360
2013	328
2014	570
2015	300
2016	413
2017	821
2018	352
2019	584
2020	467
2021	357
2022	387
2023	793
2024	546
2025	442
2026	292

Why the snow is not read against the river here

BEAR LAKE OUTLET CANAL NR PARIS ID measures a canal, not a natural channel. What passes through it is an operating decision — how much was diverted, and when — so comparing it with what the sky or the mountain delivered would describe the operator rather than the hydrology.

Every gauge Hydrionis holds within this area

Gauges within the Bear Lake and what each holds
Gauge	Measures	Values	Record
BEAR RIVER AT PESCADERO ID	burned area within 50 km, catchment area, annual maximum river flow, mean river flow, mean river flow, water year	260	1922–2026
BEAR LAKE OUTLET CANAL NR PARIS ID	burned area within 50 km, annual maximum river flow, mean river flow, mean river flow, water year	205	1922–2019
RAINBOW INLET CANAL NEAR DINGLE, ID	catchment area, annual maximum river flow	5	1976–2026

How these gauges were attached to this water

Assigned by the publisher to a numbered basin Every gauge here is assigned to this drainage area by its own publisher, which issues the area an official code — 16010201. A drainage area is not a river: it contains the tributaries as well as the main channel, and a gauge in it may be on any of them.

What each gauge’s link to this water rests on
Gauge	Evidence	Established
BEAR RIVER AT PESCADERO ID	Stated by the publisher — USGS site service, huc_cd field — https://waterservices.usgs.gov/nwis/site/ ; named from the USGS Watershed Boundary Dataset 8-digit HU (Subbasin) layer — https://hydro.nationalmap.gov/arcgis/rest/services/wbd/MapServer/4	2026-10-02
BEAR LAKE OUTLET CANAL NR PARIS ID	Stated by the publisher — USGS site service, huc_cd field — https://waterservices.usgs.gov/nwis/site/ ; named from the USGS Watershed Boundary Dataset 8-digit HU (Subbasin) layer — https://hydro.nationalmap.gov/arcgis/rest/services/wbd/MapServer/4	2026-10-02
RAINBOW INLET CANAL NEAR DINGLE, ID	Stated by the publisher — USGS site service, huc_cd field — https://waterservices.usgs.gov/nwis/site/ ; named from the USGS Watershed Boundary Dataset 8-digit HU (Subbasin) layer — https://hydro.nationalmap.gov/arcgis/rest/services/wbd/MapServer/4	2026-10-02

What this record holds

Hydrionis decides which waters get a page, and which of those are offered to search, from what is actually held rather than from how the page reads. Five signals are counted; this record has 4 of them, which makes it a full profile.

Information-gain signals held for this water body
Signal	Held	Counts
Gauges holding a real record	2	no
Years spanned	105	yes, 20 or more
Values held	2,022	yes, 1000 or more
Distinct measurements	6	yes, 2 or more
Publishers measuring it	2	yes, 2 or more
Official identifiers	1	recorded, not counted

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No bulk download is offered here, which is a licence position rather than a product one: at least one contributing publisher does not permit redistribution. The values can be read on the page, cited, and pointed to at source.

Attribution and citation

Suggested citation for Hydrionis

Hydrionis (2026), Bear Lake gauge records, accessed 2026-10-05, hydrionis.com/waters/united-states-bear-lake/

Cite Hydrionis where you rely on values Hydrionis computed, on the method that produced them, or on the compilation itself. The underlying measurements remain the publishers’ and their attribution requirements apply to you directly.

Recommended, not required. Hydrionis does not claim rights over unmodified public data it relayed, and doing arithmetic on somebody else’s measurements does not make them Hydrionis’s. Cite the version and the access date: the Bear Lake gauge records changes as publishers release and as methods are revised, and a citation without both cannot be checked later. Full guidance is on cite and reuse.

None of the contributing licences requires attribution. Crediting the publishers is still good practice and they are listed above.

Where these figures come from

MeasuredHigh confidence2025-07-05

Source: USGS — National Water Information System, USGS site 10068500, annual peak streamflow. Licence: Open.

Method: The instantaneous maximum discharge of each water year as published by USGS, dated to the day it occurred. One value per October-to-September water year; where the publisher lists both a systematic and a historic peak for a year, the larger is the annual maximum. Values the publisher marks as maximum daily averages are not held here, because they are not instantaneous peaks. Values marked as bounded rather than measured are held as censored observations carrying the bound. Cubic feet per second are converted to cubic metres per second and the publisher unit is recorded alongside.

Rating curves are extrapolated at extreme discharges, so the largest values in a peak series carry the largest measurement uncertainty. Data from the U.S. Geological Survey National Water Information System, a work of the United States government and therefore in the public domain.

Retrieved 1 October 2026.