Gulf Coast Gauges

Atchafalaya River at Krotz Springs water level

USGS gauge 07381500 · St. Landry Parish · Lafayette and Acadiana

2.39 ft

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

Highest since 1935 (USGS)
38.40 ft (May 15, 1973)
Usual range
0.67 to 3.31 ft

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

No National Weather Service alert covering St. Landry 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

0.7 2.0 3.3 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 2.67 ft NAVD88. It is not a water depth and not an elevation: add 2.67 ft to get the water surface elevation.

Daily highs and lows since September 11, 2026

0.3 2.2 4.1 2026-09-11 – 2026-10-23 · bars are daily low to high

Annual peaks since 1935

In 49 complete water years of comparable USGS records (since 1935), the highest peak was 38.40 ft on May 15, 1973. So far in water year 2027 (since October 1) the highest reading is 4.13 ft on October 5, 2026, higher than the annual peak in 1 of 49 years.

1 11 21 31 41 1940 1950 1960 1970 1980 1990 2000 2010 2020 Water year 1935: 34.42 ft on July 8, 1935 Water year 1936: 30.10 ft on May 4, 1936 Water year 1937: 37.80 ft on February 28, 1937 Water year 1938: 33.10 ft on April 29, 1938 Water year 1939: 33.60 ft on April 6, 1939 Water year 1940: 29.00 ft on May 11, 1940 Water year 1941: 24.86 ft on May 1, 1941 Water year 1942: 30.30 ft on May 2, 1942 Water year 1943: 32.91 ft on June 10, 1943 Water year 1944: 35.04 ft on May 22, 1944 Water year 1945: 37.50 ft on April 29, 1945 Water year 1946: 32.50 ft on January 31, 1946 Water year 1947: 31.30 ft on May 9, 1947 Water year 1948: 32.10 ft on April 26, 1948 Water year 1949: 34.00 ft on March 5, 1949 Water year 1950: 37.30 ft on March 6, 1950 Water year 1951: 32.00 ft on March 19, 1951 Water year 1952: 32.80 ft on April 19, 1952 Water year 1953: 32.20 ft on May 29, 1953 Water year 1954: 25.10 ft on May 17, 1954 Water year 1955: 32.80 ft on April 15, 1955 Water year 1956: 30.90 ft on March 4, 1956 Water year 1957: 33.80 ft on June 13, 1957 Water year 1958: 33.20 ft on May 23, 1958 Water year 1959: 27.86 ft on March 3, 1959 Water year 1960: 29.16 ft on April 26, 1960 Water year 1961: 34.20 ft on May 31, 1961 Water year 1962: 33.51 ft on April 13, 1962 Water year 1963: 30.39 ft on April 6, 1963 Water year 1964: 28.01 ft on April 3, 1964 Water year 1965: 30.00 ft on April 21, 1965 Water year 1966: 28.50 ft on May 17, 1966 Water year 1967: 25.60 ft on June 4, 1967 Water year 1968: 27.90 ft on April 18, 1968 Water year 1969: 29.35 ft on February 23, 1969 Water year 1970: 29.35 ft on May 19, 1970 Water year 1971: 26.45 ft on March 15, 1971 Water year 1972: 25.79 ft on May 13, 1972 Water year 1973: 38.40 ft on May 15, 1973 Water year 1974: 31.60 ft on February 9, 1974 Water year 1975: 35.43 ft on April 17, 1975 Water year 1976: 24.20 ft on March 17, 1976 Water year 1977: 21.75 ft on April 23, 1977 Water year 1978: 24.40 ft on April 11, 1978 Water year 2022: 3.35 ft on August 29, 2022 Water year 2023: 18.60 ft on April 10, 2023 Water year 2024: 17.91 ft on May 20, 2024 Water year 2025: 23.21 ft on May 1, 2025 Water year 2026: 12.86 ft on July 9, 2026 Water year 2027 so far: 4.13 ft on October 5, 2026 1973 1937 1945

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.

Download the readings

atchafalaya-river-at-krotz-springs.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. This site is not affiliated with either agency.