About this river
Big Dry Creek is a 9.9 mile river near Denver Paddle Board Rentals CO in Colorado. Streamflow is measured at the USGS gauge Big Dry Creek at Westminster, CO (site 06720820). The National Hydrography Dataset places it at stream order 5. Reach geometry comes from the USGS National Hydrography Dataset.
Typical flow by month
1987 to 2026
Big Dry Creek typically runs highest in June, at a median 32 cfs, and lowest in January, at 1.7 cfs. The highest flow on record for any single day is 418 cfs, in 2015.
| Month | Typical (cfs) | Usual range (cfs) | Relative level |
|---|---|---|---|
| January | 1.7 | 1.2 to 2.4 | |
| February | 1.9 | 1.3 to 3.2 | |
| March | 2.3 | 1.4 to 4.4 | |
| April | 4.0 | 2.3 to 11 | |
| May | 14 | 6.9 to 39 | |
| June | 32 | 13 to 56 | |
| July | 17 | 7.0 to 39 | |
| August | 24 | 12 to 37 | |
| September | 12 | 3.1 to 34 | |
| October | 2.6 | 1.7 to 4.3 | |
| November | 2.1 | 1.6 to 3.5 | |
| December | 1.7 | 1.3 to 2.3 |
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 37 years of record. Statistics published by the US Geological Survey for Big Dry Creek at Westminster, CO (site 06720820). Conditions on any given day can fall well outside the usual range. Check the current reading before you go.
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