Streamflow
Near normalSacramento River at Verona streamflow
Daily mean discharge, Sacramento basin, California
Data through Oct 15, 2026 · source last checked Oct 17, 2026 · page revised Oct 16, 2026
Cite
- Discharge
About this data
- Source
- US Geological Survey (USGS)
- Series
- Daily mean streamflow (discharge)
- Geography
- Sacramento River at Verona
- Unit
- cfs
- Calculation
- Daily mean
- Last observation
- Oct 15, 2026
- Update frequency
- Daily
Now 8,370 cfs, 5% below the 5-yr median.
Sacramento River discharge at Verona was 8,370 cfs, down 29.7% from a week prior. The gauge has dropped 46.7% over the month, from 15,700 cfs. Flow sits 5% below the 5-year median.
| Period | Current | Prior | Change |
|---|---|---|---|
| Week over week | 8,370 cfs | 11,900 cfs | -29.7% |
| Month over month | 8,370 cfs | 15,700 cfs | -46.7% |
| Year over year | 8,370 cfs | 10,600 cfs | -21.0% |
| vs 5-yr median | 8,370 cfs | 8,800 cfs | -4.9% |
| Reading | Discharge |
|---|---|
| Lowest on record for this week | 5,980 cfs |
| Median for this week | 8,800 cfs |
| Highest on record for this week | 15,800 cfs |
Previous weeks
An earlier week
Sacramento River at Verona dropped to 8,770 cfs, down 29% from last week. Month-over-month the fall was steeper still, at 45%. The gauge now reads 2% below the 5-year median.
Week of Oct 7, 2026
Sacramento River at Verona discharged 12,400 cfs through October 7, down 16% on the week. Month-over-month the decline is steeper, a 31% drop. Flow stands 8% above the 5-year median.
Week of Sep 30, 2026
Sacramento River at Verona ran at 14,800 cfs, down 3.9% on the week and 14.5% on the month. Year-over-year discharge is down 9.2%. Flow stands at the 5-year median.
Week of Sep 23, 2026
Sacramento River at Verona ran at 15,400 cfs through Sep 23, down 10.5% from last month's 17,200 cfs. Flow sits 3% above the 5-year median.
About Sacramento River at Verona
The Sacramento River at Verona ran 8,370 cfs on Oct 15, 2026: 8,370 cubic feet of water passing the gauge every second (what cfs means), or about 16,602 acre-feet a day. That is close to the 5-year median of 8,800 cfs for the date. A month earlier it ran 15,700 cfs on Sep 15, 2026, so the river has fallen 47% since then. Two of California's largest reservoirs drain to this reach: Shasta Lake on the upper Sacramento and Lake Oroville on the Feather, which joins just above the gauge.
USGS gage 11425500 stands on the Sacramento River at Verona, just below where the Feather River comes in and downstream of the Sutter Bypass outfall. It carries most of the Sacramento Valley's combined runoff: everything the Bend Bridge gage upstream already counted, plus the Feather and Yuba systems behind Oroville and New Bullards Bar, plus whatever the bypass has spilled out of the mainstem in high water. That makes it the closest thing the valley has to a single total.
Its year is shaped by winter rain far more than by snowmelt, so the peaks are storm peaks and they come and go in days. Because the Sutter Bypass takes flood water out of the river above this point, a very high mainstem reading here means the bypass system is already carrying its share. A low summer reading is the more consequential one: this is the water approaching the Delta, where export pumping and salinity control both draw on it.