USGS gauge 02365200 · Holmes County · Panama City · NWS gauge PITF1
8.49 ft
gage height, Oct 23, 2026 at 2:00 PM CDT · 3 hours ago
Below NWS minor flood stage
14.5 ft
NWS action stage
18.0 ft
NWS minor flood stage
23.0 ft
NWS moderate flood stage
26.0 ft
NWS major flood stage
33.5 ft
Highest since 1977 (USGS)
30.54 ft (March 30, 2009)
Usual range
6.35 to 18.80 ft
USGS marks recent readings as provisional: they can be revised after review.
No National Weather Service alert covering Holmes 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
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 51.83 ft NGVD29. It is not a water depth and not an elevation: add 51.83 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
Annual peaks since 1977
In 31 complete water years of comparable USGS records (since 1977), the highest peak was 30.54 ft on March 30, 2009. So far in water year 2027 (since October 1) the highest reading is 22.35 ft on October 13, 2026, higher than the annual peak in 12 of 31 years.
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
Date
Crest
Above minor flood stage
March 30, 2009
30.54 ft
7.5 ft
December 28, 2015
28.99 ft
6.0 ft
December 18, 2009
28.81 ft
5.8 ft
January 28, 1978
28.56 ft
5.6 ft
September 18, 2020
27.58 ft
4.6 ft
April 3, 2005
27.02 ft
4.0 ft
April 20, 2014
26.61 ft
3.6 ft
April 3, 2016
26.54 ft
3.5 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
choctawhatchee-river-near-pittman.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.
