The monitoring network within this area

Hydrionis holds 818 values from 2 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.

2

Gauges

818

Values held

1928–2026

Record spans

Gauges within the Burnt huc8 subbasin

2 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 BURNT RIVER NEAR HEREFORD OR

The highest instantaneous discharge the publisher recorded in each year — a flood peak as measured, not a daily average of one. 1929–1997.

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 (0 events)

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	BURNT RIVER NEAR HEREFORD OR (m³/s)
1929	13.3
1930	10.5
1931	23.5
1932	31.1
1933	19.8
1934	3.85
1935	17.7
1936	42.8
1937	15.0
1938	20.5
1939	12.9
1940	12.8
1941	9.26
1942	22.5
1943	62.9
1945	8.41
1946	18.9
1947	12.3
1948	14.4
1949	12.9
1950	10.9
1951	17.4
1952	23.8
1953	17.0
1954	9.51
1955	6.65
1956	31.4
1957	22.5
1958	21.1
1959	7.65
1960	20.2
1961	6.06
1962	7.70
1963	8.50
1964	6.09
1965	32.8
1966	5.27
1967	7.42
1968	5.24
1969	25.1
1970	18.7
1971	36.2
1972	21.6
1973	6.17
1974	23.8
1975	20.5
1976	15.1
1977	4.28
1978	22.0
1979	12.3
1980	10.6
1981	12.4
1982	24.7
1983	24.4
1984	27.8
1985	19.4
1986	29.7
1987	4.64
1988	5.21
1989	27.3
1990	15.0
1992	6.97
1993	29.2
1994	3.82
1995	24.7
1996	16.7
1997	30.9

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	1929–1997
Completeness	97.1% of the periods in that span are held. Gaps are drawn as breaks and never interpolated.
Known gaps	2 separate periods inside 1929–1997 hold no value. They are drawn as breaks in the line and are never interpolated across.
Continuity	The record begins in 1929 and is not continuous from it: 69 years separate the first value from the last, and 97% 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 BURNT RIVER NEAR HEREFORD OR, as a depth

The year's flow spread over the land draining to this gauge, in millimetres — the same unit rainfall is measured in. 1929–1996.

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 (0 events)

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	BURNT RIVER NEAR HEREFORD OR (mm)
1929	64.0
1930	45.0
1931	46.0
1932	106
1933	90.0
1934	32.0
1935	53.0
1936	73.0
1937	53.0
1938	97.0
1940	64.0
1941	94.0
1942	116
1943	172
1944	41.0
1945	75.0
1946	129
1947	86.0
1948	124
1949	129
1950	103
1951	113
1952	135
1953	143
1954	71.0
1955	39.0
1956	157
1957	117
1958	165
1959	75.0
1960	74.0
1961	50.0
1962	71.0
1963	78.0
1964	73.0
1965	189
1966	52.0
1967	59.0
1968	53.0
1969	98.0
1970	103
1971	138
1972	133
1973	48.0
1974	182
1975	143
1976	104
1977	30.0
1978	104
1979	89.0
1980	74.0
1981	96.0
1982	187
1983	185
1984	189
1985	106
1986	120
1987	50.0
1988	43.0
1989	110
1990	54.0
1991	53.0
1992	50.0
1993	132
1994	46.0
1995	109
1996	140

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	1929–1996
Completeness	98.5% of the periods in that span are held. Gaps are drawn as breaks and never interpolated.
Known gaps	One period inside 1929–1996 holds no value: 1939. It is drawn as a break in the line and is never interpolated across.
Continuity	The record begins in 1929 and is not continuous from it: 68 years separate the first value from the last, and 99% 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

1 automated snow station sits inside this drainage area, weighing the snowpack rather than measuring how deep it is.

548

Fullest snowpack recorded at Tipton, in 1982 (mm of water)

93

Thinnest, in 2026 (mm of water)

March

Month the pack is usually at its fullest

May

Month the pack has gone by, in half of years

Peak snowpack at Tipton

Water years 1981–2026. 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	Tipton (mm)
1981	203
1982	548
1983	509
1984	534
1985	444
1986	368
1987	286
1988	239
1989	508
1990	207
1991	162
1992	159
1993	271
1994	232
1995	302
1996	205
1997	394
1998	295
1999	368
2000	382
2001	200
2002	380
2003	230
2004	401
2005	147
2006	421
2007	222
2008	373
2009	262
2010	259
2011	392
2012	191
2013	210
2014	217
2015	157
2016	405
2017	396
2018	215
2019	379
2020	266
2021	348
2022	212
2023	344
2024	261
2025	486
2026	93.0

Read against the river

Tipton and BURNT RIVER NEAR HEREFORD OR both sit in this drainage area, and their records overlap by 15 years. That is the span the two have in common, not a count of years both actually hold — either record may have gaps inside it. The two are shown separately rather than on one axis: millimetres of stored water and cubic metres per second are not commensurable, and a difference between them would mean nothing.

Being in the same drainage area does not put the snowpack upstream of the gauge. A subbasin is an area, and snow on one tributary can join the river below a gauge on another — so a weak relationship here may say more about which tributary was measured than about the snow.

Every gauge Hydrionis holds within this area

Gauges within the Burnt and what each holds
Gauge	Measures	Values	Record
BURNT RIVER NEAR HEREFORD OR	burned area within 50 km, catchment area, annual maximum river flow, mean river flow, mean river flow, water year	239	1928–2026
BURNT RIVER AT HUNTINGTON, OREG.	catchment area, annual maximum river flow	27	1929–2026

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 — 17050202. 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
BURNT RIVER NEAR HEREFORD OR	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
BURNT RIVER AT HUNTINGTON, OREG.	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 3 of them, which makes it a full profile.

Information-gain signals held for this water body
Signal	Held	Counts
Gauges holding a real record	1	no
Years spanned	99	yes, 20 or more
Values held	818	no
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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Attribution and citation

Suggested citation for Hydrionis

Hydrionis (2026), Burnt gauge records, accessed 2026-10-05, hydrionis.com/waters/united-states-burnt/

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 Burnt 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 confidence1997-03-28

Source: USGS — National Water Information System, USGS site 13273000, 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.