The monitoring network within this area

Hydrionis holds 346 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.

Gauges

346

Values held

1912–2026

Record spans

Gauges within the Provo 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 PROVO RIVER AT PROVO, UT

The highest instantaneous discharge the publisher recorded in each year — a flood peak as measured, not a daily average of one. 1934–2024.

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	PROVO RIVER AT PROVO, UT (m³/s)
1934	6.57
1937	45.9
1938	38.2
1939	18.9
1940	11.2
1941	15.9
1942	18.9
1943	17.5
1944	24.7
1945	21.1
1946	27.9
1948	28.6
1949	25.9
1950	32.3
1951	35.1
1952	71.4
1953	18.4
1955	6.12
1956	27.2
1957	37.7
1958	25.5
1959	9.17
1960	9.46
1962	29.4
1963	28.6
1964	31.7
1965	36.0
1966	20.4
1967	37.4
1968	33.4
1969	27.0
1970	23.3
1971	18.7
1972	31.7
1973	39.4
1974	19.6
1975	54.9
1976	13.2
1978	32.8
1979	10.1
1980	39.1
1981	15.5
1982	34.3
1983	68.5
1984	58.0
1985	40.5
1986	49.8
1987	19.6
1988	45.0
1989	9.03
1990	39.1
1991	39.9
1993	47.3
1995	34.0
1996	22.9
1997	36.2
1998	33.4
1999	32.3
2000	18.3
2001	10.8
2002	21.0
2003	12.2
2004	10.2
2005	55.2
2006	24.8
2007	23.9
2008	24.8
2009	43.6
2010	18.5
2011	47.9
2012	18.4
2013	17.2
2014	21.1
2015	20.1
2016	17.6
2017	56.4
2018	12.2
2019	49.6
2020	19.9
2021	12.6
2022	11.4
2023	52.4
2024	49.8

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	1934–2024
Completeness	91.2% of the periods in that span are held. Gaps are drawn as breaks and never interpolated.
Known gaps	7 separate periods inside 1934–2024 hold no value. The longest runs from 1935 to 1936 — 2 years with no reading. They are drawn as breaks in the line and are never interpolated across.
Continuity	The record begins in 1934 and is not continuous from it: 91 years separate the first value from the last, and 91% of the years between them are held. The span is not the record.
Last read from the publisher	2026-08-31
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 PROVO RIVER AT PROVO, UT, as a depth

The year's flow spread over the land draining to this gauge, in millimetres — the same unit rainfall is measured in. 1944–2025.

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.

View the data behind this chart

Underlying data
Period	PROVO RIVER AT PROVO, UT (mm)
1944	105
1945	120
1946	90.0
1947	109
1948	74.0
1949	108
1950	112
1951	110
1952	198
1953	88.0
1954	49.0
1955	44.0
1956	93.0
1957	119
1958	101
1959	63.0
1960	38.0
1961	39.0
1962	120
1963	90.0
1964	104
1965	186
1966	83.0
1967	139
1968	117
1969	141
1970	101
1971	112
1972	113
1973	129
1974	111
1975	159
1976	80.0
1977	32.0
1978	96.0
1979	73.0
1980	147
1981	57.0
1982	190
1983	255
1984	247
1985	147
1986	311
1987	61.0
1988	33.0
1989	25.0
1990	36.0
1991	55.0
1992	18.0
1993	127
1994	30.0
1995	89.0
1996	84.0
1997	160
1998	175
1999	112
2000	68.0
2001	33.0
2002	47.0
2003	44.0
2004	37.0
2005	152
2006	109
2007	67.0
2008	68.0
2009	121
2010	68.0
2011	275
2012	70.0
2013	39.0
2014	37.0
2015	31.0
2016	38.0
2017	155
2018	50.0
2019	126
2020	68.0
2021	34.0
2022	31.0
2023	153
2024	159
2025	47.0

About this series

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	1944–2025
Completeness	100.0% of the periods in that span are held.
Continuity	Continuous: every year from 1944 to 2025 is held.
Last read from the publisher	2026-08-24
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

Every gauge Hydrionis holds within this area

Gauges within the Provo and what each holds
Gauge	Measures	Values	Record
PROVO RIVER AT PROVO, UT	burned area within 50 km, catchment area, annual maximum river flow, mean river flow	208	1934–2026
SOUTH FORK PROVO R AT VIVIAN PARK, UTAH	burned area within 50 km, catchment area, annual maximum river flow, mean river flow	138	1912–2026

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 — 16020203. 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
PROVO RIVER AT PROVO, UT	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	2026-08-26
SOUTH FORK PROVO R AT VIVIAN PARK, UTAH	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	2026-08-26

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	2	no
Years spanned	115	yes, 20 or more
Values held	346	no
Distinct measurements	4	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), Provo gauge records, accessed 2026-09-02, hydrionis.com/waters/united-states-provo/

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 Provo 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 confidence2024-06-08

Source: USGS — National Water Information System, USGS site 10163000, 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 31 August 2026.