Gulf Coast Gauges

Calcasieu River near Kinder water level

USGS gauge 08015500 · Allen Parish · Lake Charles and Southwest Louisiana · NWS gauge KDRL1

1.50 ft

gage height, Oct 23, 2026 at 2:15 PM CDT · 3 hours ago

Below NWS minor flood stage
14.5 ft
NWS action stage
13.5 ft
NWS minor flood stage
16.0 ft
NWS moderate flood stage
20.0 ft
NWS major flood stage
23.0 ft
Highest since 1940 (USGS)
32.00 ft (May 19, 1953)
Usual range
1.49 to 1.86 ft

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

No National Weather Service alert covering Allen 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 1.7 1.9 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 10.93 ft NAVD88. It is not a water depth and not an elevation: add 10.93 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

1.4 1.7 2.1 2026-09-11 – 2026-10-23 · bars are daily low to high

Annual peaks since 1913

In 79 complete water years of comparable USGS records (since 1940), the highest peak was 32.00 ft on May 19, 1953. So far in water year 2027 (since October 1) the highest reading is 1.66 ft on October 6, 2026.

-1 8 17 26 34 1920 1930 1940 1950 1960 1970 1980 1990 2000 2010 2020 major 23 ft moderate 20 ft minor 16 ft action 13.5 ft Water year 1913: 25.00 ft on January 1, 1913 (different datum or site: not compared) Water year 1923: 20.37 ft on April 14, 1923 (different datum or site: not compared) Water year 1924: 23.46 ft on December 23, 1923 (different datum or site: not compared) Water year 1939: 17.96 ft on January 16, 1939 (different datum or site: not compared) Water year 1940: 24.70 ft on August 11, 1940 Water year 1941: 20.32 ft on November 27, 1940 Water year 1942: 18.22 ft on April 12, 1942 Water year 1943: 14.85 ft on March 27, 1943 Water year 1944: 18.33 ft on May 9, 1944 Water year 1945: 19.85 ft on April 4, 1945 Water year 1946: 19.91 ft on January 13, 1946 Water year 1947: 20.64 ft on January 21, 1947 Water year 1948: 15.61 ft on December 17, 1947 Water year 1949: 19.82 ft on April 24, 1949 Water year 1950: 21.44 ft on February 15, 1950 Water year 1951: 15.37 ft on January 10, 1951 Water year 1952: 19.53 ft on April 28, 1952 Water year 1953: 32.00 ft on May 19, 1953 Water year 1954: 21.81 ft on May 5, 1954 Water year 1955: 20.80 ft on February 8, 1955 Water year 1956: 16.88 ft on February 13, 1956 Water year 1957: 18.52 ft on December 25, 1956 Water year 1958: 21.30 ft on November 16, 1957 Water year 1959: 18.10 ft on April 15, 1959 Water year 1960: 15.50 ft on December 19, 1959 Water year 1961: 19.70 ft on January 12, 1961 Water year 1962: 20.62 ft on December 20, 1961 Water year 1963: 15.72 ft on January 21, 1963 Water year 1964: 17.91 ft on March 5, 1964 Water year 1965: 18.02 ft on March 3, 1965 Water year 1966: 21.85 ft on February 15, 1966 Water year 1967: 19.16 ft on April 19, 1967 Water year 1968: 18.33 ft on January 13, 1968 Water year 1969: 16.93 ft on April 17, 1969 Water year 1970: 11.35 ft on April 13, 1970 Water year 1971: 18.93 ft on October 14, 1970 Water year 1972: 21.44 ft on December 9, 1971 Water year 1973: 22.05 ft on March 27, 1973 Water year 1974: 18.79 ft on January 22, 1974 Water year 1975: 19.56 ft on May 9, 1975 Water year 1976: 15.77 ft on October 30, 1975 Water year 1977: 15.98 ft on March 8, 1977 Water year 1978: 18.75 ft on December 2, 1977 Water year 1979: 21.59 ft on September 22, 1979 Water year 1980: 21.05 ft on March 31, 1980 Water year 1981: 16.58 ft on June 8, 1981 Water year 1982: 15.76 ft on April 24, 1982 Water year 1983: 26.22 ft on December 29, 1982 Water year 1984: 21.67 ft on February 15, 1984 Water year 1985: 22.12 ft on October 23, 1984 Water year 1986: 22.14 ft on November 1, 1985 Water year 1987: 18.60 ft on March 2, 1987 Water year 1988: 19.54 ft on November 19, 1987 Water year 1989: 26.28 ft on July 2, 1989 Water year 1990: 20.06 ft on January 26, 1990 Water year 1991: 20.48 ft on May 10, 1991 Water year 1992: 22.07 ft on December 16, 1991 Water year 1993: 17.91 ft on March 5, 1993 Water year 1994: 19.87 ft on February 2, 1994 Water year 1995: 22.90 ft on April 13, 1995 Water year 1996: 16.97 ft on December 22, 1995 Water year 1997: 19.62 ft on March 1, 1997 Water year 1998: 21.36 ft on January 14, 1998 Water year 2000: 12.33 ft on May 7, 2000 Water year 2001: 15.23 ft on January 22, 2001 Water year 2002: 22.99 ft on December 1, 2001 Water year 2003: 24.29 ft on November 7, 2002 Water year 2004: 21.80 ft on May 16, 2004 Water year 2005: 18.40 ft on November 30, 2004 Water year 2006: 13.42 ft on May 5, 2006 Water year 2007: 20.13 ft on January 7, 2007 Water year 2008: 18.01 ft on September 17, 2008 Water year 2009: 17.20 ft on April 21, 2009 Water year 2010: 17.11 ft on February 9, 2010 Water year 2011: 7.55 ft on March 16, 2011 Water year 2012: 20.12 ft on February 7, 2012 Water year 2013: 20.55 ft on January 13, 2013 Water year 2014: 13.52 ft on February 15, 2014 Water year 2015: 15.45 ft on April 19, 2015 Water year 2016: 21.78 ft on March 15, 2016 Water year 2024: 19.73 ft on May 18, 2024 Water year 2025: 19.94 ft on May 9, 2025 Water year 2026: 18.10 ft on June 21, 2026 Water year 2027 so far: 1.66 ft on October 6, 2026 1953 1989 1983

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 (4 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
May 19, 195332.00 ft16.0 ft
July 2, 198926.28 ft10.3 ft
December 29, 198226.22 ft10.2 ft
August 11, 194024.70 ft8.7 ft
November 7, 200224.29 ft8.3 ft
October 13, 202023.65 ft7.6 ft
December 23, 192323.46 ft7.5 ft
December 1, 200123.22 ft7.2 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

calcasieu-river-near-kinder.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.