Gulf Coast Gauges

Comite River near Zachary water level

USGS gauge 07377750 · East Baton Rouge Parish · Baton Rouge · NWS gauge ZAYL1

2.13 ft

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

Highest since 2017 (USGS)
23.17 ft (October 23, 2017)
Usual range
2.13 to 2.23 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

2.1 2.4 2.6 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 58.58 ft NAVD88. It is not a water depth and not an elevation: add 58.58 ft to get the water surface elevation.

Daily highs and lows since September 11, 2026

2.1 2.3 2.6 2026-09-11 – 2026-10-23 · bars are daily low to high

Annual peaks since 1951

In 10 complete water years of comparable USGS records (since 2017), the highest peak was 23.17 ft on October 23, 2017. So far in water year 2027 (since October 1) the highest reading is 2.35 ft on October 5, 2026.

-5 21 46 72 97 1960 1970 1980 1990 2000 2010 2020 Water year 1951: 86.15 ft on March 29, 1951 (different datum or site: not compared) Water year 1953: 89.28 ft on May 18, 1953 (different datum or site: not compared) Water year 1954: 80.21 ft on December 9, 1953 (different datum or site: not compared) Water year 1955: 87.17 ft on April 13, 1955 (different datum or site: not compared) Water year 1956: 85.69 ft on March 12, 1956 (different datum or site: not compared) Water year 1957: 79.71 ft on April 4, 1957 (different datum or site: not compared) Water year 1958: 80.01 ft on November 14, 1957 (different datum or site: not compared) Water year 1959: 81.21 ft on February 4, 1959 (different datum or site: not compared) Water year 1960: 83.11 ft on December 18, 1959 (different datum or site: not compared) Water year 1961: 88.81 ft on March 18, 1961 (different datum or site: not compared) Water year 1962: 87.35 ft on April 28, 1962 (different datum or site: not compared) Water year 1964: 87.12 ft on March 2, 1964 (different datum or site: not compared) Water year 1965: 88.21 ft on October 1, 1964 (different datum or site: not compared) Water year 1966: 85.12 ft on February 17, 1966 (different datum or site: not compared) Water year 1967: 87.33 ft on April 14, 1967 (different datum or site: not compared) Water year 1968: 79.46 ft on January 1, 1968 (different datum or site: not compared) Water year 1969: 80.79 ft on April 13, 1969 (different datum or site: not compared) Water year 1970: 84.41 ft on October 7, 1969 (different datum or site: not compared) Water year 1971: 79.60 ft on January 1, 1971 (different datum or site: not compared) Water year 1972: 88.36 ft on December 7, 1971 (different datum or site: not compared) Water year 1973: 87.03 ft on March 27, 1973 (different datum or site: not compared) Water year 1974: 81.38 ft on January 20, 1974 (different datum or site: not compared) Water year 1975: 82.38 ft on January 8, 1975 (different datum or site: not compared) Water year 1976: 80.72 ft on March 25, 1976 (different datum or site: not compared) Water year 1977: 89.95 ft on April 22, 1977 (different datum or site: not compared) Water year 1978: 87.52 ft on November 30, 1977 (different datum or site: not compared) Water year 1979: 88.70 ft on April 22, 1979 (different datum or site: not compared) Water year 1980: 87.10 ft on April 14, 1980 (different datum or site: not compared) Water year 1981: 75.00 ft on January 1, 1981 (different datum or site: not compared) Water year 1982: 76.67 ft on February 16, 1982 (different datum or site: not compared) Water year 1983: 88.30 ft on April 7, 1983 (different datum or site: not compared) Water year 1999: 74.87 ft on March 14, 1999 (different datum or site: not compared) Water year 2002: 76.08 ft on August 7, 2002 (different datum or site: not compared) Water year 2003: 77.59 ft on February 22, 2003 (different datum or site: not compared) Water year 2004: 77.94 ft on May 15, 2004 (different datum or site: not compared) Water year 2005: 74.09 ft on February 1, 2005 (different datum or site: not compared) Water year 2006: 65.78 ft on December 16, 2005 (different datum or site: not compared) Water year 2007: 73.41 ft on December 31, 2006 (different datum or site: not compared) Water year 2008: 82.74 ft on September 3, 2008 (different datum or site: not compared) Water year 2009: 74.67 ft on March 28, 2009 (different datum or site: not compared) Water year 2010: 72.14 ft on February 5, 2010 (different datum or site: not compared) Water year 2011: 74.20 ft on March 9, 2011 (different datum or site: not compared) Water year 2012: 75.20 ft on February 19, 2012 (different datum or site: not compared) Water year 2013: 74.36 ft on April 14, 2013 (different datum or site: not compared) Water year 2014: 75.02 ft on February 22, 2014 (different datum or site: not compared) Water year 2015: 74.81 ft on March 3, 2015 (different datum or site: not compared) Water year 2016: 31.99 ft on August 13, 2016 (different datum or site: not compared) Water year 2017: 14.38 ft on January 21, 2017 Water year 2018: 23.17 ft on October 23, 2017 Water year 2019: 17.35 ft on May 10, 2019 Water year 2020: 10.37 ft on July 6, 2020 Water year 2021: 21.44 ft on February 12, 2021 Water year 2022: 12.27 ft on August 25, 2022 Water year 2023: 17.69 ft on February 17, 2023 Water year 2024: 12.26 ft on May 14, 2024 Water year 2025: 11.79 ft on May 7, 2025 Water year 2026: 17.63 ft on June 17, 2026 Water year 2027 so far: 2.35 ft on October 5, 2026 2018 2023

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 (47 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
April 22, 197789.95 ft—
May 18, 195389.28 ft—
March 18, 196188.81 ft—
April 28, 196187.35 ft—
April 13, 195587.17 ft—
March 29, 195186.15 ft—
March 12, 195685.69 ft—
December 18, 195983.11 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-zachary.csv (CSV): every reading stored for this gauge since September 11, 2026, 4,049 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.