Gulf Coast Gauges

Amite River near French Settlement water level

USGS gauge 07380200 · Livingston Parish · Baton Rouge · NWS gauge FSLL1

1.73 ft

gage height, Oct 23, 2026 at 3:00 PM CDT · 2 hours ago

Below NWS minor flood stage
2.3 ft
NWS action stage
3.0 ft
NWS minor flood stage
4.0 ft
NWS moderate flood stage
6.0 ft
NWS major flood stage
8.0 ft
Highest since 1950 (USGS)
9.21 ft (August 16, 2016)
Usual range
1.38 to 2.72 ft

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

No National Weather Service alert covering Livingston Parish was active when this page was generated (Oct 23, 2026 at 5:05 PM CDT). Alerts are issued and expire at any time; the current list is at alerts.weather.gov.

Last 7 days

1.4 2.0 2.7 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 -0.91 ft NAVD88. It is not a water depth and not an elevation: add -0.91 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

1.0 2.2 3.3 2026-09-11 – 2026-10-23 · bars are daily low to high

Annual peaks since 1950

In 58 complete water years of comparable USGS records (since 1950), the highest peak was 9.21 ft on August 16, 2016. So far in water year 2027 (since October 1) the highest reading is 3.33 ft on October 10, 2026, higher than the annual peak in 13 of 58 years.

2 4 6 8 10 1950 1960 1970 1980 1990 2000 2010 2020 major 8 ft moderate 6 ft minor 4 ft action 3 ft Water year 1950: 5.80 ft on January 12, 1950 Water year 1955: 6.81 ft on April 18, 1955 Water year 1956: 5.70 ft on February 10, 1956 Water year 1957: 3.60 ft on April 9, 1957 Water year 1958: 4.86 ft on November 24, 1957 Water year 1959: 5.70 ft on February 7, 1959 Water year 1960: 2.86 ft on May 6, 1960 Water year 1961: 5.14 ft on September 12, 1961 Water year 1962: 4.80 ft on December 20, 1961 Water year 1963: 3.25 ft on September 18, 1963 Water year 1964: 4.13 ft on March 6, 1964 Water year 1965: 5.13 ft on September 10, 1965 Water year 1966: 5.90 ft on February 18, 1966 Water year 1967: 5.30 ft on April 19, 1967 Water year 1968: 2.48 ft on October 31, 1967 Water year 1969: 3.84 ft on April 16, 1969 Water year 1970: 2.71 ft on September 16, 1970 Water year 1971: 3.00 ft on September 7, 1971 Water year 1972: 5.05 ft on December 11, 1971 Water year 1973: 5.97 ft on April 21, 1973 Water year 1974: 3.81 ft on September 9, 1974 Water year 1975: 4.12 ft on January 13, 1975 Water year 1976: 3.03 ft on April 18, 1976 Water year 1977: 7.40 ft on April 25, 1977 Water year 1978: 3.22 ft on May 9, 1978 Water year 1983: 6.52 ft on April 8, 1983 Water year 1995: 4.52 ft on April 14, 1995 Water year 1996: 3.43 ft on December 22, 1995 Water year 1997: 3.99 ft on May 1, 1997 Water year 1998: 4.94 ft on September 12, 1998 Water year 1999: 2.65 ft on March 17, 1999 Water year 2000: 4.04 ft on October 4, 1999 Water year 2001: 6.89 ft on June 11, 2001 Water year 2002: 4.79 ft on September 26, 2002 Water year 2003: 4.40 ft on October 4, 2002 Water year 2004: 4.57 ft on May 18, 2004 Water year 2005: 5.01 ft on October 11, 2004 Water year 2006: 3.22 ft on October 11, 2005 Water year 2007: 3.14 ft on January 2, 2007 Water year 2008: 5.36 ft on September 13, 2008 Water year 2009: 3.68 ft on April 1, 2009 Water year 2010: 3.86 ft on December 19, 2009 Water year 2011: 5.15 ft on September 5, 2011 Water year 2012: 6.87 ft on August 30, 2012 Water year 2013: 5.20 ft on January 14, 2013 Water year 2014: 3.40 ft on June 1, 2014 Water year 2015: 2.79 ft on September 29, 2015 Water year 2016: 9.21 ft on August 16, 2016 Water year 2017: 4.13 ft on June 22, 2017 Water year 2018: 3.69 ft on October 4, 2017 Water year 2019: 4.21 ft on May 14, 2019 Water year 2020: 4.45 ft on September 23, 2020 Water year 2021: 5.97 ft on May 22, 2021 Water year 2022: 2.82 ft on August 29, 2022 Water year 2023: 3.01 ft on February 2, 2023 Water year 2024: 4.50 ft on September 12, 2024 Water year 2025: 3.78 ft on November 13, 2024 Water year 2026: 3.70 ft on October 6, 2025 Water year 2027 so far: 3.33 ft on October 10, 2026 2016 1977 2001

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.

NWS historic crests

DateCrestAbove minor flood stage
August 16, 20169.21 ft5.2 ft
April 25, 19777.40 ft3.4 ft
April 25, 19797.01 ft3.0 ft
June 11, 20016.89 ft2.9 ft
August 31, 20126.87 ft2.9 ft
August 30, 20126.87 ft2.9 ft
April 18, 19556.81 ft2.8 ft
April 8, 19836.52 ft2.5 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-french-settlement.csv (CSV): every reading stored for this gauge since September 11, 2026, 4,049 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.