Gulf Coast Gauges

Amite River near Denham Springs water level

USGS gauge 07378500 · East Baton Rouge Parish · Baton Rouge · NWS gauge DENL1

9.64 ft

gage height, Oct 23, 2026 at 2:15 PM CDT · 4 hours ago

Below NWS minor flood stage
19.4 ft
NWS action stage
26.0 ft
NWS minor flood stage
29.0 ft
NWS moderate flood stage
35.0 ft
NWS major flood stage
39.0 ft
Highest since 1979 (USGS)
46.20 ft (August 14, 2016)
Usual range
9.67 to 10.13 ft

USGS marks recent readings as provisional: they can be revised after review.

No National Weather Service alert covering East Baton Rouge Parish was active when this page was generated (Oct 23, 2026 at 5:50 PM CDT). Alerts are issued and expire at any time; the current list is at alerts.weather.gov.

Last 7 days

9.6 9.9 10.1 Oct 17 Oct 18 Oct 19 Oct 20 Oct 21 Oct 22 Oct 23

Hourly averages of USGS readings. The shaded band is this gauge's usual range: the middle 80% of its readings since September 11, 2026.

How to read this gauge

Gage height is the height of the water surface above this gauge's own zero point, which sits at -1.35 ft NAVD88. It is not a water depth and not an elevation: add -1.35 ft to get the water surface elevation.

The flood stages are the National Weather Service's, on the same scale as the gage height; they are the NWS's references for this location, not estimates made here.

Daily highs and lows since September 11, 2026

9.6 10.4 11.1 2026-09-11 – 2026-10-23 · bars are daily low to high

Annual peaks since 1921

In 48 complete water years of comparable USGS records (since 1979), the highest peak was 46.20 ft on August 14, 2016. So far in water year 2027 (since October 1) the highest reading is 10.77 ft on October 5, 2026.

8 18 28 39 49 1930 1940 1950 1960 1970 1980 1990 2000 2010 2020 major 39 ft moderate 35 ft minor 29 ft action 26 ft Water year 1921: 35.40 ft on March 15, 1921 (different datum or site: not compared) Water year 1939: 21.96 ft on June 6, 1939 (different datum or site: not compared) Water year 1940: 23.09 ft on July 7, 1940 (different datum or site: not compared) Water year 1941: 24.32 ft on December 17, 1940 (different datum or site: not compared) Water year 1942: 21.77 ft on September 19, 1942 (different datum or site: not compared) Water year 1943: 28.63 ft on March 23, 1943 (different datum or site: not compared) Water year 1944: 21.17 ft on March 23, 1944 (different datum or site: not compared) Water year 1945: 21.50 ft on January 10, 1945 (different datum or site: not compared) Water year 1946: 22.94 ft on May 7, 1946 (different datum or site: not compared) Water year 1947: 25.73 ft on March 15, 1947 (different datum or site: not compared) Water year 1948: 29.59 ft on March 5, 1948 (different datum or site: not compared) Water year 1949: 25.87 ft on March 24, 1949 (different datum or site: not compared) Water year 1950: 28.18 ft on January 9, 1950 (different datum or site: not compared) Water year 1951: 28.19 ft on April 1, 1951 (different datum or site: not compared) Water year 1952: 19.06 ft on April 6, 1952 (different datum or site: not compared) Water year 1953: 32.46 ft on May 20, 1953 (different datum or site: not compared) Water year 1954: 22.36 ft on December 11, 1953 (different datum or site: not compared) Water year 1955: 32.08 ft on April 15, 1955 (different datum or site: not compared) Water year 1956: 26.20 ft on March 14, 1956 (different datum or site: not compared) Water year 1957: 21.91 ft on July 1, 1957 (different datum or site: not compared) Water year 1958: 22.55 ft on November 17, 1957 (different datum or site: not compared) Water year 1959: 24.47 ft on February 5, 1959 (different datum or site: not compared) Water year 1960: 24.65 ft on December 19, 1959 (different datum or site: not compared) Water year 1961: 30.60 ft on March 20, 1961 (different datum or site: not compared) Water year 1962: 30.68 ft on April 29, 1962 (different datum or site: not compared) Water year 1963: 17.04 ft on January 22, 1963 (different datum or site: not compared) Water year 1964: 28.54 ft on March 4, 1964 (different datum or site: not compared) Water year 1965: 30.15 ft on October 7, 1964 (different datum or site: not compared) Water year 1966: 28.90 ft on February 14, 1966 (different datum or site: not compared) Water year 1967: 31.39 ft on April 17, 1967 (different datum or site: not compared) Water year 1968: 17.59 ft on May 13, 1968 (different datum or site: not compared) Water year 1969: 25.50 ft on April 14, 1969 (different datum or site: not compared) Water year 1970: 25.18 ft on October 8, 1969 (different datum or site: not compared) Water year 1971: 21.90 ft on September 20, 1971 (different datum or site: not compared) Water year 1972: 31.14 ft on December 8, 1971 (different datum or site: not compared) Water year 1973: 32.63 ft on March 27, 1973 (different datum or site: not compared) Water year 1974: 24.63 ft on December 27, 1973 (different datum or site: not compared) Water year 1975: 26.59 ft on May 10, 1975 (different datum or site: not compared) Water year 1976: 22.98 ft on March 27, 1976 (different datum or site: not compared) Water year 1977: 37.21 ft on April 23, 1977 (different datum or site: not compared) Water year 1978: 31.18 ft on December 2, 1977 (different datum or site: not compared) Water year 1979: 36.70 ft on April 24, 1979 Water year 1980: 35.96 ft on March 30, 1980 Water year 1981: 24.46 ft on December 12, 1980 Water year 1982: 28.40 ft on February 18, 1982 Water year 1983: 41.50 ft on April 8, 1983 Water year 1984: 27.91 ft on December 12, 1983 Water year 1985: 28.52 ft on October 24, 1984 Water year 1986: 32.19 ft on October 31, 1985 Water year 1987: 30.21 ft on January 20, 1987 Water year 1988: 32.01 ft on April 4, 1988 Water year 1989: 29.86 ft on May 21, 1989 Water year 1990: 39.88 ft on January 27, 1990 Water year 1991: 31.01 ft on February 22, 1991 Water year 1992: 33.27 ft on March 7, 1992 Water year 1993: 38.15 ft on January 22, 1993 Water year 1994: 36.10 ft on January 30, 1994 Water year 1995: 35.93 ft on April 12, 1995 Water year 1996: 33.34 ft on December 20, 1995 Water year 1997: 35.05 ft on April 29, 1997 Water year 1998: 33.54 ft on January 9, 1998 Water year 1999: 31.60 ft on March 15, 1999 Water year 2000: 22.72 ft on May 6, 2000 Water year 2001: 38.34 ft on June 9, 2001 Water year 2002: 28.68 ft on April 10, 2002 Water year 2003: 34.17 ft on February 24, 2003 Water year 2004: 31.99 ft on May 17, 2004 Water year 2005: 29.50 ft on February 2, 2005 Water year 2006: 19.80 ft on April 30, 2006 Water year 2007: 31.31 ft on October 29, 2006 Water year 2008: 36.23 ft on September 5, 2008 Water year 2009: 32.33 ft on March 30, 2009 Water year 2010: 29.46 ft on December 19, 2009 Water year 2011: 30.27 ft on March 10, 2011 Water year 2012: 30.99 ft on February 20, 2012 Water year 2013: 32.13 ft on January 11, 2013 Water year 2014: 30.36 ft on February 23, 2014 Water year 2015: 29.61 ft on March 4, 2015 Water year 2016: 46.20 ft on August 14, 2016 Water year 2017: 29.32 ft on January 22, 2017 Water year 2018: 30.13 ft on January 29, 2018 Water year 2019: 31.86 ft on May 12, 2019 Water year 2020: 26.29 ft on February 8, 2020 Water year 2021: 31.47 ft on April 17, 2021 Water year 2022: 28.42 ft on August 26, 2022 Water year 2023: 29.51 ft on February 1, 2023 Water year 2024: 29.35 ft on January 27, 2024 Water year 2025: 28.82 ft on May 10, 2025 Water year 2026: 30.66 ft on June 18, 2026 Water year 2027 so far: 10.77 ft on October 5, 2026 2016 1983 1990

Each dot is the highest gage height of a water year (October to September), from the USGS annual peak record, with recent years USGS has not published yet taken from its 15-minute readings and this site's own; hover a dot for its date. Dashed lines are NWS flood stages. Grey hollow dots (41 years) were measured on a different datum or at a different site, or before the gauge's datum last changed, so they are shown but not compared.

NWS historic crests

DateCrestAbove minor flood stage
August 14, 201646.20 ft17.2 ft
April 8, 198341.50 ft12.5 ft
April 23, 197741.08 ft12.1 ft
January 27, 199039.88 ft10.9 ft
March 15, 192139.27 ft10.3 ft
June 9, 200138.34 ft9.3 ft
January 21, 199338.15 ft9.1 ft
April 24, 197936.70 ft7.7 ft

The highest crests the National Weather Service lists for this gauge, as published. They can differ from the USGS annual peaks above: USGS records the year's highest gage height, which is not always the crest the NWS lists for the same flood.

Download the readings

amite-river-near-denham-springs.csv (CSV): every reading stored for this gauge since September 11, 2026, 4,046 rows, with time in UTC and Central, gage height in feet, and the USGS approval status.

Source. Gage height from the U.S. Geological Survey; flood stages and historic crests from the NWS National Water Prediction Service. This site is not affiliated with either agency.