gage height, Oct 23, 2026 at 2:15 PM CDT · 3 hours ago
Below NWS minor flood stage
19.8 ft
NWS action stage
16.0 ft
NWS minor flood stage
20.0 ft
NWS moderate flood stage
25.0 ft
NWS major flood stage
28.0 ft
Highest since 2003 (USGS)
34.22 ft (August 14, 2016)
Usual range
0.25 to 0.40 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
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 21.51 ft NAVD88. It is not a water depth and not an elevation: add 21.51 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 1944
In 21 complete water years of comparable USGS records (since 2003), the highest peak was 34.22 ft on August 14, 2016. So far in water year 2027 (since October 1) the highest reading is 0.95 ft on October 5, 2026.
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 (59 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
Date
Crest
Above minor flood stage
August 14, 2016
34.22 ft
14.2 ft
June 9, 2001
30.99 ft
11.0 ft
April 7, 1983
29.72 ft
9.7 ft
January 21, 1993
27.58 ft
7.6 ft
September 4, 2008
27.45 ft
7.4 ft
April 28, 1997
27.22 ft
7.2 ft
January 26, 1990
26.54 ft
6.5 ft
October 9, 2020
26.48 ft
6.5 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
comite-river-near-comite.csv (CSV): every reading stored for this gauge since September 11, 2026, 4,041 rows, with time in UTC and Central, gage height in feet, and the USGS approval status.
