Gulf Coast Gauges

Big Coldwater Creek near Milton water level

USGS gauge 02370500 · Santa Rosa County · Pensacola and the Emerald Coast · NWS gauge MLNF1

2.50 ft

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

Below NWS minor flood stage
7.5 ft
NWS action stage
5.0 ft
NWS minor flood stage
10.0 ft
NWS moderate flood stage
15.0 ft
NWS major flood stage
23.0 ft
Highest since 1939 (USGS)
22.98 ft (March 17, 1990)
Usual range
2.14 to 4.60 ft

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

No National Weather Service alert covering Santa Rosa County 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

2.1 3.4 4.6 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 9.10 ft NGVD29. It is not a water depth and not an elevation: add 9.10 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

2.1 4.9 7.7 2026-09-11 – 2026-10-23 · bars are daily low to high

Annual peaks since 1939

In 80 complete water years of comparable USGS records (since 1939), the highest peak was 22.98 ft on March 17, 1990. So far in water year 2027 (since October 1) the highest reading is 7.73 ft on October 11, 2026, higher than the annual peak in 14 of 80 years.

4 9 14 19 24 1940 1950 1960 1970 1980 1990 2000 2010 2020 major 23 ft moderate 15 ft minor 10 ft action 5 ft Water year 1939: 17.33 ft on August 17, 1939 Water year 1940: 10.64 ft on July 6, 1940 Water year 1941: 7.75 ft on December 14, 1940 Water year 1942: 7.49 ft on September 27, 1942 Water year 1943: 8.33 ft on January 19, 1943 Water year 1944: 13.61 ft on September 11, 1944 Water year 1945: 5.68 ft on April 23, 1945 Water year 1946: 10.23 ft on December 26, 1945 Water year 1947: 11.90 ft on March 8, 1947 Water year 1948: 9.59 ft on March 7, 1948 Water year 1949: 8.06 ft on November 23, 1948 Water year 1950: 8.32 ft on September 1, 1950 Water year 1951: 8.71 ft on March 20, 1951 Water year 1952: 6.52 ft on March 25, 1952 Water year 1953: 8.06 ft on September 27, 1953 Water year 1954: 8.85 ft on December 7, 1953 Water year 1955: 13.23 ft on April 14, 1955 Water year 1956: 7.49 ft on September 24, 1956 Water year 1957: 12.68 ft on April 6, 1957 Water year 1958: 6.77 ft on June 20, 1958 Water year 1959: 6.54 ft on February 5, 1959 Water year 1960: 11.94 ft on September 17, 1960 Water year 1961: 12.46 ft on April 13, 1961 Water year 1962: 11.40 ft on April 1, 1962 Water year 1963: 7.61 ft on January 21, 1963 Water year 1964: 12.12 ft on April 28, 1964 Water year 1965: 7.95 ft on December 26, 1964 Water year 1966: 9.30 ft on October 8, 1965 Water year 1967: 7.84 ft on November 13, 1966 Water year 1968: 7.06 ft on November 2, 1967 Water year 1969: 7.65 ft on March 19, 1969 Water year 1970: 21.41 ft on June 4, 1970 Water year 1971: 7.50 ft on October 10, 1970 Water year 1972: 6.48 ft on January 13, 1972 Water year 1973: 11.40 ft on December 22, 1972 Water year 1974: 9.01 ft on September 9, 1974 Water year 1975: 20.56 ft on August 1, 1975 Water year 1976: 10.24 ft on November 13, 1975 Water year 1977: 8.86 ft on August 21, 1977 Water year 1978: 14.95 ft on June 9, 1978 Water year 1979: 8.25 ft on March 4, 1979 Water year 1981: 10.12 ft on February 12, 1981 Water year 1982: 10.46 ft on February 4, 1982 Water year 1983: 11.70 ft on February 3, 1983 Water year 1984: 11.46 ft on March 7, 1984 Water year 1985: 13.40 ft on June 17, 1985 Water year 1986: 10.32 ft on March 15, 1986 Water year 1987: 7.84 ft on March 19, 1987 Water year 1988: 18.13 ft on September 11, 1988 Water year 1989: 16.45 ft on June 17, 1989 Water year 1990: 22.98 ft on March 17, 1990 Water year 1991: 9.74 ft on January 31, 1991 Water year 1998: 19.86 ft on September 29, 1998 Water year 1999: 7.94 ft on June 28, 1999 Water year 2001: 9.32 ft on June 13, 2001 Water year 2002: 12.53 ft on September 27, 2002 Water year 2003: 12.92 ft on July 2, 2003 Water year 2004: 15.75 ft on September 17, 2004 Water year 2005: 11.71 ft on September 28, 2005 Water year 2006: 9.37 ft on January 3, 2006 Water year 2007: 7.64 ft on January 8, 2007 Water year 2008: 9.05 ft on April 6, 2008 Water year 2009: 17.34 ft on March 29, 2009 Water year 2010: 15.32 ft on January 22, 2010 Water year 2011: 7.52 ft on January 6, 2011 Water year 2012: 8.51 ft on February 20, 2012 Water year 2013: 8.68 ft on February 26, 2013 Water year 2014: 10.88 ft on May 16, 2014 Water year 2015: 8.28 ft on December 25, 2014 Water year 2016: 9.80 ft on December 25, 2015 Water year 2017: 15.25 ft on June 22, 2017 Water year 2018: 9.00 ft on June 17, 2018 Water year 2019: 9.14 ft on December 29, 2018 Water year 2020: 21.50 ft on September 17, 2020 Water year 2021: 9.56 ft on April 25, 2021 Water year 2022: 10.73 ft on October 7, 2021 Water year 2023: 7.51 ft on June 17, 2023 Water year 2024: 8.08 ft on May 14, 2024 Water year 2025: 12.03 ft on June 10, 2025 Water year 2026: 13.06 ft on June 20, 2026 Water year 2027 so far: 7.73 ft on October 11, 2026 1990 2020 1970

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
March 17, 199022.98 ft13.0 ft
September 17, 202021.50 ft11.5 ft
June 4, 197021.41 ft11.4 ft
August 1, 197520.56 ft10.6 ft
September 29, 199819.86 ft9.9 ft
October 5, 199519.50 ft9.5 ft
September 11, 198818.13 ft8.1 ft
March 9, 199818.13 ft8.1 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

big-coldwater-creek-near-milton.csv (CSV): every reading stored for this gauge since September 11, 2026, 4,045 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.