Gulf Coast Gauges

Escambia River near Century water level

USGS gauge 02375500 · Santa Rosa County · Pensacola and the Emerald Coast · NWS gauge CTYF1

3.90 ft

gage height, Oct 23, 2026 at 2:00 PM CDT · 4 hours ago

Below NWS minor flood stage
13.1 ft
NWS action stage
12.0 ft
NWS minor flood stage
17.0 ft
NWS moderate flood stage
25.0 ft
NWS major flood stage
37.0 ft
Highest since 1935 (USGS)
24.35 ft (March 18, 1990)
Usual range
3.18 to 7.41 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 5:50 PM CDT). Alerts are issued and expire at any time; the current list is at alerts.weather.gov.

Last 7 days

3.2 5.3 7.4 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 28.34 ft NGVD29. It is not a water depth and not an elevation: add 28.34 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

3.0 6.8 10.7 2026-09-11 – 2026-10-23 · bars are daily low to high

Annual peaks since 1935

In 92 complete water years of comparable USGS records (since 1935), the highest peak was 24.35 ft on March 18, 1990. So far in water year 2027 (since October 1) the highest reading is 10.67 ft on October 12, 2026, higher than the annual peak in 1 of 92 years.

9 13 18 22 26 1940 1950 1960 1970 1980 1990 2000 2010 2020 moderate 25 ft minor 17 ft action 12 ft Water year 1935: 17.72 ft on March 9, 1935 Water year 1936: 19.40 ft on January 3, 1936 Water year 1937: 20.05 ft on April 11, 1937 Water year 1938: 20.66 ft on March 22, 1938 Water year 1939: 20.10 ft on August 22, 1939 Water year 1940: 17.56 ft on July 11, 1940 Water year 1941: 15.45 ft on December 19, 1940 Water year 1942: 17.41 ft on January 3, 1942 Water year 1943: 20.57 ft on March 26, 1943 Water year 1944: 20.00 ft on March 30, 1944 Water year 1945: 16.57 ft on May 1, 1945 Water year 1946: 17.69 ft on March 29, 1946 Water year 1947: 17.68 ft on April 17, 1947 Water year 1948: 18.64 ft on March 11, 1948 Water year 1949: 20.43 ft on December 2, 1948 Water year 1950: 15.38 ft on April 6, 1950 Water year 1951: 16.49 ft on April 24, 1951 Water year 1952: 17.25 ft on March 26, 1952 Water year 1953: 16.73 ft on May 12, 1953 Water year 1954: 18.59 ft on December 7, 1953 Water year 1955: 20.51 ft on April 15, 1955 Water year 1956: 15.80 ft on March 17, 1956 Water year 1957: 18.41 ft on April 7, 1957 Water year 1958: 15.15 ft on March 12, 1958 Water year 1959: 16.38 ft on April 4, 1959 Water year 1960: 20.94 ft on April 5, 1960 Water year 1961: 19.27 ft on February 27, 1961 Water year 1962: 18.47 ft on April 2, 1962 Water year 1963: 16.99 ft on January 22, 1963 Water year 1964: 18.92 ft on May 4, 1964 Water year 1965: 18.15 ft on January 25, 1965 Water year 1966: 18.21 ft on March 9, 1966 Water year 1967: 18.10 ft on January 3, 1967 Water year 1968: 14.78 ft on December 13, 1967 Water year 1969: 15.53 ft on March 26, 1969 Water year 1970: 20.27 ft on June 5, 1970 Water year 1971: 18.35 ft on April 2, 1971 Water year 1972: 17.30 ft on March 10, 1972 Water year 1973: 20.84 ft on April 8, 1973 Water year 1974: 18.75 ft on September 10, 1974 Water year 1975: 23.32 ft on April 12, 1975 Water year 1976: 17.95 ft on January 2, 1976 Water year 1977: 17.90 ft on April 1, 1977 Water year 1978: 20.28 ft on January 27, 1978 Water year 1979: 19.06 ft on March 6, 1979 Water year 1980: 19.66 ft on April 15, 1980 Water year 1981: 20.16 ft on February 12, 1981 Water year 1982: 18.12 ft on February 5, 1982 Water year 1983: 19.06 ft on February 3, 1983 Water year 1984: 18.20 ft on May 24, 1984 Water year 1985: 18.10 ft on February 7, 1985 Water year 1986: 18.25 ft on March 21, 1986 Water year 1987: 16.60 ft on March 2, 1987 Water year 1988: 17.44 ft on September 12, 1988 Water year 1989: 18.78 ft on June 18, 1989 Water year 1990: 24.35 ft on March 18, 1990 Water year 1991: 18.03 ft on March 4, 1991 Water year 1992: 17.40 ft on February 19, 1992 Water year 1993: 18.48 ft on December 19, 1992 Water year 1994: 18.92 ft on July 15, 1994 Water year 1995: 18.85 ft on February 13, 1995 Water year 1996: 20.47 ft on October 6, 1995 Water year 1997: 16.54 ft on February 24, 1997 Water year 1998: 23.84 ft on September 30, 1998 Water year 1999: 17.68 ft on March 16, 1999 Water year 2000: 10.33 ft on March 23, 2000 Water year 2001: 20.19 ft on March 10, 2001 Water year 2002: 17.01 ft on September 27, 2002 Water year 2003: 17.90 ft on July 3, 2003 Water year 2004: 18.58 ft on September 18, 2004 Water year 2005: 19.96 ft on April 8, 2005 Water year 2006: 14.81 ft on March 1, 2006 Water year 2007: 17.50 ft on April 3, 2007 Water year 2008: 17.47 ft on January 1, 2008 Water year 2009: 19.05 ft on April 5, 2009 Water year 2010: 23.23 ft on December 16, 2009 Water year 2011: 16.54 ft on March 12, 2011 Water year 2012: 16.80 ft on February 21, 2012 Water year 2013: 18.37 ft on February 28, 2013 Water year 2014: 19.09 ft on May 16, 2014 Water year 2015: 16.78 ft on April 21, 2015 Water year 2016: 20.15 ft on December 31, 2015 Water year 2017: 19.40 ft on June 23, 2017 Water year 2018: 15.63 ft on October 25, 2017 Water year 2019: 18.65 ft on January 5, 2019 Water year 2020: 20.85 ft on September 18, 2020 Water year 2021: 16.93 ft on September 2, 2021 Water year 2022: 19.02 ft on October 7, 2021 Water year 2023: 16.78 ft on June 21, 2023 Water year 2024: 17.15 ft on March 16, 2024 Water year 2025: 17.49 ft on April 9, 2025 Water year 2026: 19.05 ft on June 21, 2026 Water year 2027 so far: 10.67 ft on October 12, 2026 1990 1998 1975

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 15, 192937.80 ft20.8 ft
March 18, 199024.35 ft7.4 ft
September 30, 199823.84 ft6.8 ft
March 9, 199823.70 ft6.7 ft
April 12, 197523.32 ft6.3 ft
December 16, 200923.23 ft6.2 ft
December 16, 200923.22 ft6.2 ft
April 5, 196020.94 ft3.9 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

escambia-river-near-century.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.