Dix River at Dix Dam near Burgin, KY Water Level Today

NWS river forecast

Forecast from the NOAA National Water Prediction Service. Issued a few times a day and only while a forecast is active. Not for navigation.

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About this gauge

USGS gauge 03286200 sits on the Dix River and reads everything draining 439 square miles of the Lower Kentucky basin. Its datum sits 511 feet above sea level NAVD88. Daily flow has been on record here since 2010, 12 years of it.

Where this gauge sits in the drainage

Herrington Lake near Burgin, KY sits immediately upstream, so dam releases rather than rainfall set the flow here. One gauged site sits upstream of here. The closest is Dix River near Danville, KY, reading 318 square miles. This gauge adds the 121 square miles that drain in between. Downstream the next reading comes from Kentucky River at Lock 7 at Highbridge, KY at 5,036 square miles, so what passes this gauge is about 9% of the water measured there. Water passing here goes on to Kentucky River at Lock 6 near Salvisa, KY and Kentucky River at Lock 5 near Tyrone, KY.

Normal flows here

The Dix River runs a median of 136 cfs at this gauge across 12 years of record. March is the fullest month at a median 1,330 cfs, and September the leanest at 108 cfs. The highest daily mean on record is 2,140 cfs in 2021, and the lowest is 38 cfs in 2016.

Medians from the USGS daily-statistics record, 2010 to 2025. A month at 100% is running at its own long-term median.