Gulf Coast Gauges

Fish River near Silver Hill water level

USGS gauge 02378500 · Baldwin County · Mobile Bay · NWS gauge FSHA1

0.68 ft

gage height, Oct 23, 2026 at 2:30 PM CDT · 3 hours ago

Below NWS minor flood stage
10.3 ft
NWS action stage
7.0 ft
NWS minor flood stage
11.0 ft
NWS moderate flood stage
13.0 ft
NWS major flood stage
18.0 ft
Highest since 1954 (USGS)
23.06 ft (April 30, 2014)
Usual range
0.63 to 1.40 ft

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

No National Weather Service alert covering Baldwin 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

0.6 1.0 1.4 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 20.20 ft NAVD88. It is not a water depth and not an elevation: add 20.20 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

0.6 2.7 4.8 2026-09-11 – 2026-10-23 · bars are daily low to high

Annual peaks since 1954

In 57 complete water years of comparable USGS records (since 1954), the highest peak was 23.06 ft on April 30, 2014. So far in water year 2027 (since October 1) the highest reading is 4.85 ft on October 5, 2026.

3 9 14 19 25 1960 1970 1980 1990 2000 2010 2020 major 18 ft moderate 13 ft minor 11 ft action 7 ft Water year 1954: 17.04 ft on December 6, 1953 Water year 1955: 6.66 ft on December 6, 1954 Water year 1956: 9.71 ft on March 12, 1956 Water year 1957: 14.70 ft on April 5, 1957 Water year 1958: 10.93 ft on March 7, 1958 Water year 1959: 11.50 ft on September 13, 1959 Water year 1960: 10.71 ft on April 3, 1960 Water year 1961: 14.29 ft on April 12, 1961 Water year 1962: 8.01 ft on January 6, 1962 Water year 1963: 8.48 ft on January 21, 1963 Water year 1964: 15.00 ft on April 27, 1964 Water year 1965: 7.84 ft on July 11, 1965 Water year 1966: 12.13 ft on October 1, 1965 Water year 1967: 10.18 ft on September 7, 1967 Water year 1968: 5.52 ft on December 11, 1967 Water year 1969: 14.00 ft on July 24, 1969 Water year 1971: 10.04 ft on September 5, 1971 Water year 1987: 10.37 ft on June 22, 1987 Water year 1988: 10.57 ft on September 17, 1988 Water year 1989: 19.28 ft on June 9, 1989 Water year 1990: 16.77 ft on March 16, 1990 Water year 1991: 10.00 ft on May 9, 1991 Water year 1992: 15.74 ft on January 13, 1992 Water year 1993: 11.32 ft on March 31, 1993 Water year 1994: 13.89 ft on July 8, 1994 Water year 1995: 11.69 ft on March 8, 1995 Water year 1996: 17.56 ft on October 5, 1995 Water year 1997: 22.78 ft on July 20, 1997 Water year 1998: 18.31 ft on September 28, 1998 Water year 1999: 9.05 ft on June 11, 1999 Water year 2000: 8.68 ft on March 30, 2000 Water year 2001: 12.39 ft on June 11, 2001 Water year 2002: 15.08 ft on September 26, 2002 Water year 2003: 14.07 ft on July 1, 2003 Water year 2004: 16.13 ft on September 16, 2004 Water year 2005: 20.35 ft on April 1, 2005 Water year 2006: 6.75 ft on April 22, 2006 Water year 2007: 8.29 ft on October 18, 2006 Water year 2008: 14.17 ft on September 1, 2008 Water year 2009: 17.94 ft on March 28, 2009 Water year 2010: 12.22 ft on January 21, 2010 Water year 2011: 12.87 ft on July 16, 2011 Water year 2012: 10.40 ft on June 10, 2012 Water year 2013: 11.84 ft on July 11, 2013 Water year 2014: 23.06 ft on April 30, 2014 Water year 2015: 10.48 ft on April 15, 2015 Water year 2016: 12.43 ft on December 23, 2015 Water year 2017: 12.26 ft on January 3, 2017 Water year 2018: 17.79 ft on October 23, 2017 Water year 2019: 12.19 ft on July 14, 2019 Water year 2020: 20.68 ft on September 16, 2020 Water year 2021: 10.58 ft on April 10, 2021 Water year 2022: 13.24 ft on August 4, 2022 Water year 2023: 9.14 ft on June 16, 2023 Water year 2024: 11.83 ft on May 14, 2024 Water year 2025: 16.70 ft on April 7, 2025 Water year 2026: 14.06 ft on June 19, 2026 Water year 2027 so far: 4.85 ft on October 5, 2026 2014 1997 2020

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
April 30, 201423.06 ft12.1 ft
July 20, 199722.78 ft11.8 ft
September 16, 202020.68 ft9.7 ft
April 1, 200520.35 ft9.4 ft
June 9, 198919.28 ft8.3 ft
September 28, 199818.31 ft7.3 ft
March 28, 200917.94 ft6.9 ft
October 23, 201717.79 ft6.8 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

fish-river-near-silver-hill.csv (CSV): every reading stored for this gauge since September 11, 2026, 3,972 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.