About this river
Big Canoe Creek is a 5.9 mile river near Birmingham Canoe Club in Alabama. Streamflow is measured at the USGS gauge Big Canoe Creek at Ashville AL (site 02401390). The National Hydrography Dataset places it at stream order 5. Reach geometry comes from the USGS National Hydrography Dataset.
Typical flow by month
1966 to 2026
Big Canoe Creek typically runs highest in March, at a median 307 cfs, and lowest in September, at 29 cfs. The highest flow on record for any single day is 11,200 cfs, in 2005.
| Month | Typical (cfs) | Usual range (cfs) | Relative level |
|---|---|---|---|
| January | 244 | 137 to 478 | |
| February | 286 | 171 to 534 | |
| March | 307 | 200 to 531 | |
| April | 217 | 136 to 369 | |
| May | 107 | 66 to 219 | |
| June | 60 | 38 to 114 | |
| July | 44 | 29 to 85 | |
| August | 33 | 24 to 58 | |
| September | 29 | 20 to 52 | |
| October | 30 | 19 to 51 | |
| November | 44 | 26 to 113 | |
| December | 122 | 61 to 307 |
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 60 years of record. Statistics published by the US Geological Survey for Big Canoe Creek at Ashville AL (site 02401390). Conditions on any given day can fall well outside the usual range. Check the current reading before you go.
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