gage height, Oct 20, 2026 at 11:15 AM CDT · 20 minutes ago
Below NWS minor flood stage
6.1 ft
NWS action stage
49.5 ft
NWS minor flood stage
51.0 ft
NWS moderate flood stage
52.0 ft
NWS major flood stage
53.0 ft
Usual range
44.84 to 45.29 ft
USGS marks recent readings as provisional: they can be revised after review.
No National Weather Service alert covering Harris County was active when this page was generated (Oct 20, 2026 at 11:35 AM 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 7, 2026.
How to read this gauge
Gage height is the height of the water surface above the gauge's zero point. This gauge's zero is set at 0 ft NAVD88, so its gage height is the water surface elevation above that datum. It is not a water depth.
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.
hickory-slough-at-fm-865-near-pearland.csv (CSV): every reading stored for this gauge since September 7, 2026, 1,647 rows, with time in UTC and Central, gage height in feet, and the USGS approval status.