Gulf Coast Gauges

Beaver Bayou at Hooper Road near Baton Rouge water level

USGS gauge 07378083 · East Baton Rouge Parish · Baton Rouge · NWS gauge BBHL1

0.68 ft

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

Highest since 2015 (USGS)
13.50 ft (August 12, 2016)
Usual range
0.46 to 0.68 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 5:05 PM CDT). Alerts are issued and expire at any time; the current list is at alerts.weather.gov.

Last 7 days

0.5 0.7 1.0 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 48.78 ft NAVD88. It is not a water depth and not an elevation: add 48.78 ft to get the water surface elevation.

Daily highs and lows since September 11, 2026

0.5 3.5 6.5 2026-09-11 – 2026-10-23 · bars are daily low to high

Annual peaks since 1983

In 12 complete water years of comparable USGS records (since 2015), the highest peak was 13.50 ft on August 12, 2016. So far in water year 2027 (since October 1) the highest reading is 6.54 ft on October 4, 2026.

2 18 34 50 66 1990 2000 2010 2020 Water year 1983: 11.98 ft on April 6, 1983 (different datum or site: not compared) Water year 1984: 11.90 ft on December 11, 1983 (different datum or site: not compared) Water year 1985: 10.82 ft on February 25, 1985 (different datum or site: not compared) Water year 1986: 11.45 ft on February 5, 1986 (different datum or site: not compared) Water year 1987: 11.02 ft on August 12, 1987 (different datum or site: not compared) Water year 1988: 11.45 ft on February 18, 1988 (different datum or site: not compared) Water year 1989: 11.34 ft on June 28, 1989 (different datum or site: not compared) Water year 1990: 11.79 ft on November 8, 1989 (different datum or site: not compared) Water year 1991: 11.25 ft on April 29, 1991 (different datum or site: not compared) Water year 1992: 11.35 ft on March 5, 1992 (different datum or site: not compared) Water year 1993: 12.45 ft on January 20, 1993 (different datum or site: not compared) Water year 1994: 11.98 ft on July 27, 1994 (different datum or site: not compared) Water year 1995: 12.47 ft on April 11, 1995 (different datum or site: not compared) Water year 1996: 12.13 ft on December 18, 1995 (different datum or site: not compared) Water year 1997: 10.08 ft on October 26, 1996 (different datum or site: not compared) Water year 1998: 60.78 ft on January 12, 1998 (different datum or site: not compared) Water year 1999: 59.28 ft on September 7, 1999 (different datum or site: not compared) Water year 2000: 60.81 ft on May 6, 2000 (different datum or site: not compared) Water year 2001: 60.23 ft on June 7, 2001 (different datum or site: not compared) Water year 2002: 59.91 ft on March 1, 2002 (different datum or site: not compared) Water year 2003: 60.28 ft on February 21, 2003 (different datum or site: not compared) Water year 2004: 60.79 ft on May 12, 2004 (different datum or site: not compared) Water year 2005: 60.89 ft on February 24, 2005 (different datum or site: not compared) Water year 2006: 57.82 ft on April 30, 2006 (different datum or site: not compared) Water year 2007: 61.31 ft on May 4, 2007 (different datum or site: not compared) Water year 2008: 61.56 ft on May 15, 2008 (different datum or site: not compared) Water year 2009: 60.62 ft on March 27, 2009 (different datum or site: not compared) Water year 2010: 61.48 ft on December 8, 2009 (different datum or site: not compared) Water year 2011: 61.17 ft on September 5, 2011 (different datum or site: not compared) Water year 2012: 61.95 ft on August 30, 2012 (different datum or site: not compared) Water year 2013: 61.97 ft on January 9, 2013 (different datum or site: not compared) Water year 2014: 11.23 ft on July 18, 2014 (different datum or site: not compared) Water year 2015: 10.43 ft on January 4, 2015 Water year 2016: 13.50 ft on August 12, 2016 Water year 2017: 11.97 ft on January 19, 2017 Water year 2018: 12.00 ft on January 27, 2018 Water year 2019: 11.46 ft on April 18, 2019 Water year 2020: 10.58 ft on February 6, 2020 Water year 2021: 11.93 ft on October 9, 2020 Water year 2022: 10.01 ft on August 3, 2022 Water year 2023: 11.24 ft on January 29, 2023 Water year 2024: 10.78 ft on September 6, 2024 Water year 2025: 9.76 ft on August 29, 2025 Water year 2026: 10.37 ft on May 8, 2026 Water year 2027 so far: 6.54 ft on October 4, 2026 2016

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 (32 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 12, 201613.35 ft—
April 6, 198311.98 ft—
December 11, 198311.90 ft—
March 11, 201611.79 ft—
November 8, 198911.79 ft—
February 15, 198811.45 ft—
February 5, 198611.45 ft—
June 28, 198911.34 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

beaver-bayou-at-hooper-road-near-baton-rouge.csv (CSV): every reading stored for this gauge since September 11, 2026, 3,950 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.