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Dry Fork Piceance Creek in Colorado

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Source: USGS GNIS · Public land: USGS PAD-US · Forest roads: USDA Forest Service MVUM · BLM routes and areas: Bureau of Land Management (simplified for web display)

About this river

Dry Fork Piceance Creek is a 4.5 mile stream. Streamflow is measured at the USGS gauge Piceance Creek at White River, CO (site 09306222). The National Hydrography Dataset places it at stream order 4. Reach geometry comes from the USGS National Hydrography Dataset.

Typical flow by month

1965 to 2026

Dry Fork Piceance Creek typically runs highest in March, at a median 30 cfs, and lowest in June, at 4.8 cfs. The highest flow on record for any single day is 539 cfs, in 1998.

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Typical flow by month at Piceance Creek at White River, CO, in cfs
MonthTypical (cfs)Usual range (cfs)
January2116 to 28
February2318 to 30
March3023 to 41
April2411 to 51
May6.83.2 to 74
June4.82.2 to 33
July6.62.8 to 29
August154.5 to 40
September114.8 to 28
October209.1 to 29
November2517 to 35
December2318 to 32

Typical is the median of each month’s daily median values, and the usual range runs from the median 25th to the median 75th percentile, across about 57 years of record. Statistics published by the US Geological Survey for Piceance Creek at White River, CO (site 09306222). Conditions on any given day can fall well outside the usual range. Check the current reading before you go.

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