The monitoring network within this area

Hydrionis holds 3,288 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

3,288

Values held

1910–2026

Record spans

Gauges within the Mckenzie 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 MCKENZIE RIVER NEAR VIDA, OR

The highest instantaneous discharge the publisher recorded in each year — a flood peak as measured, not a daily average of one. 1925–2025.

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	MCKENZIE RIVER NEAR VIDA, OR (m³/s)
1925	756
1926	691
1927	1,337
1929	535
1931	1,076
1932	1,059
1933	705
1934	725
1936	671
1937	716
1938	793
1940	317
1941	682
1943	1,385
1945	753
1946	1,116
1948	1,110
1950	725
1951	626
1953	1,467
1954	524
1955	1,464
1956	1,303
1957	954
1959	663
1960	405
1961	1,099
1963	606
1964	1,625
1966	487
1967	453
1968	586
1970	481
1971	680
1972	816
1974	447
1976	530
1977	126
1978	473
1980	532
1981	617
1983	447
1984	541
1986	765
1987	467
1989	507
1990	637
1991	456
1993	419
1994	263
1995	456
1996	875
1998	413
1999	660
2001	170
2002	445
2003	408
2004	331
2005	620
2006	399
2008	382
2009	459
2010	411
2011	773
2012	600
2014	544
2015	513
2017	408
2019	725
2020	399
2022	464
2023	464
2025	479

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	1925–2025
Completeness	72.3% of the periods in that span are held. Gaps are drawn as breaks and never interpolated.
Known gaps	28 separate periods inside 1925–2025 hold no value. They are drawn as breaks in the line and are never interpolated across.
Continuity	The record begins in 1925 and is not continuous from it: 101 years separate the first value from the last, and 72% 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 MCKENZIE RIVER NEAR VIDA, 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. 1925–2024.

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	MCKENZIE RIVER NEAR VIDA, OR (mm)
1925	1,532
1926	1,175
1927	1,748
1928	1,309
1929	1,163
1930	953
1931	1,022
1932	1,582
1933	1,650
1934	1,318
1935	1,186
1936	1,295
1937	1,545
1938	1,489
1939	1,129
1940	1,091
1941	1,072
1942	1,485
1943	1,583
1944	887
1945	1,549
1946	1,707
1947	1,472
1948	1,728
1949	1,484
1950	2,171
1951	1,803
1952	1,396
1953	2,111
1954	1,528
1955	1,955
1956	1,984
1957	1,523
1958	1,622
1959	1,295
1960	1,605
1961	1,695
1962	1,521
1963	1,370
1964	1,784
1965	1,453
1966	1,370
1967	1,276
1968	1,421
1969	1,473
1970	1,512
1971	1,943
1972	2,015
1973	1,394
1974	1,875
1975	1,845
1976	1,442
1977	1,339
1978	1,188
1979	1,326
1980	1,376
1981	1,422
1982	1,740
1983	1,716
1984	1,893
1985	1,291
1986	1,585
1987	1,123
1988	1,392
1989	1,354
1990	1,400
1991	1,405
1992	1,023
1993	1,451
1994	1,128
1995	1,814
1996	2,254
1997	1,844
1998	1,630
1999	1,843
2000	1,464
2001	1,110
2002	1,335
2003	1,420
2004	1,385
2005	1,131
2006	1,762
2007	1,447
2008	1,651
2009	1,547
2010	1,604
2011	1,661
2012	2,101
2013	1,302
2014	1,854
2015	1,196
2016	1,468
2017	1,778
2018	1,207
2019	1,206
2020	1,337
2021	1,276
2022	1,569
2023	1,373
2024	1,631

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	1925–2024
Completeness	100.0% of the periods in that span are held.
Continuity	Continuous: every year from 1925 to 2024 is held.
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

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

904

Fullest snowpack recorded at Santiam Jct., in 2008 (mm of water)

22

Thinnest, in 2015 (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 Santiam Jct.

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	Santiam Jct. (mm)
1979	273
1980	186
1981	106
1982	869
1983	424
1984	425
1985	770
1986	382
1987	449
1988	364
1989	693
1990	393
1991	233
1992	99.0
1993	563
1994	237
1995	432
1996	289
1997	495
1998	240
1999	885
2000	491
2001	194
2002	618
2003	111
2004	425
2005	65.0
2006	439
2007	217
2008	904
2009	447
2010	109
2011	551
2012	397
2013	422
2014	143
2015	22.0
2016	301
2017	501
2018	215
2019	332
2020	313
2021	435
2022	365
2023	558
2024	331
2025	201
2026	37.0

Read against the river

Santiam Jct. and MCKENZIE RIVER AT OUTLET OF CLEAR LAKE, OR both sit in this drainage area, and their records overlap by 46 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 Mckenzie and what each holds
Gauge	Measures	Values	Record
MCKENZIE RIVER NEAR VIDA, OR	burned area within 50 km, catchment area, annual maximum river flow, mean river flow, mean river flow, water year	339	1924–2026
MCKENZIE RIVER AT OUTLET OF CLEAR LAKE, OR	burned area within 50 km, catchment area, annual maximum river flow, mean river flow, mean river flow, water year	277	1912–2026
MCKENZIE R AT MCKENZIE BRIDGE, OREG.	catchment area, annual maximum river flow	82	1910–2026

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 — 17090004. 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
MCKENZIE RIVER NEAR VIDA, 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
MCKENZIE RIVER AT OUTLET OF CLEAR LAKE, 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
MCKENZIE R AT MCKENZIE BRIDGE, 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 5 of them, which makes it a full profile.

Information-gain signals held for this water body
Signal	Held	Counts
Gauges holding a real record	3	yes, 3 or more
Years spanned	117	yes, 20 or more
Values held	3,288	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), Mckenzie gauge records, accessed 2026-10-05, hydrionis.com/waters/united-states-mckenzie/

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 Mckenzie 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 confidence2025-02-23

Source: USGS — National Water Information System, USGS site 14162500, 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.