Gulf Coast Gauges

Hurricane Creek at Baton Rouge water level

USGS gauge 07378008 · East Baton Rouge Parish · Baton Rouge · NWS gauge HBRL1

32.98 ft

gage height, Oct 23, 2026 at 2:15 PM CDT · 3 hours ago

Highest since 1970 (USGS)
55.83 ft (August 14, 2016)
Usual range
32.98 to 33.90 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

32.9 33.4 33.9 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 -2.17 ft NAVD88. It is not a water depth and not an elevation: add -2.17 ft to get the water surface elevation.

Daily highs and lows since September 11, 2026

32.9 34.4 36.0 2026-09-11 – 2026-10-23 · bars are daily low to high

Annual peaks since 1967

In 56 complete water years of comparable USGS records (since 1970), the highest peak was 55.83 ft on August 14, 2016. So far in water year 2027 (since October 1) the highest reading is 35.96 ft on October 4, 2026.

33 39 45 51 58 1970 1980 1990 2000 2010 2020 Water year 1967: 34.57 ft on April 14, 1967 (different datum or site: not compared) Water year 1968: 35.18 ft on January 1, 1968 (different datum or site: not compared) Water year 1969: 44.90 ft on January 1, 1969 (different datum or site: not compared) Water year 1970: 44.90 ft on January 1, 1970 Water year 1971: 44.90 ft on January 1, 1971 Water year 1972: 43.13 ft on May 7, 1972 Water year 1973: 46.64 ft on September 13, 1973 Water year 1974: 44.99 ft on November 6, 1973 Water year 1975: 44.63 ft on April 30, 1975 Water year 1976: 42.90 ft on January 1, 1976 Water year 1977: 48.21 ft on April 22, 1977 Water year 1978: 43.45 ft on December 1, 1977 Water year 1979: 46.63 ft on April 22, 1979 Water year 1980: 46.76 ft on March 29, 1980 Water year 1981: 42.90 ft on January 1, 1981 Water year 1982: 42.90 ft on January 1, 1982 Water year 1983: 51.13 ft on April 7, 1983 Water year 1984: 42.90 ft on January 1, 1984 Water year 1985: 44.11 ft on October 23, 1984 Water year 1986: 42.90 ft on January 1, 1986 Water year 1987: 45.43 ft on August 12, 1987 Water year 1988: 43.47 ft on September 4, 1988 Water year 1989: 45.11 ft on June 28, 1989 Water year 1990: 46.38 ft on January 25, 1990 Water year 1991: 43.93 ft on August 30, 1991 Water year 1992: 45.18 ft on October 22, 1991 Water year 1993: 47.95 ft on January 20, 1993 Water year 1994: 44.22 ft on January 28, 1994 Water year 1995: 47.54 ft on April 11, 1995 Water year 1996: 46.80 ft on December 19, 1995 Water year 1997: 45.17 ft on April 28, 1997 Water year 1998: 43.98 ft on April 8, 1998 Water year 1999: 42.14 ft on March 14, 1999 Water year 2000: 42.14 ft on May 6, 2000 Water year 2001: 49.64 ft on June 7, 2001 Water year 2002: 42.14 ft on April 9, 2002 Water year 2003: 44.01 ft on February 21, 2003 Water year 2004: 42.14 ft on May 16, 2004 Water year 2005: 45.03 ft on September 24, 2005 Water year 2006: 42.14 ft on December 15, 2005 Water year 2007: 45.66 ft on May 4, 2007 Water year 2008: 47.15 ft on September 4, 2008 Water year 2009: 42.17 ft on March 30, 2009 Water year 2010: 42.21 ft on February 5, 2010 Water year 2011: 42.17 ft on March 9, 2011 Water year 2012: 42.17 ft on February 19, 2012 Water year 2013: 43.04 ft on January 10, 2013 Water year 2014: 42.13 ft on February 22, 2014 Water year 2016: 55.83 ft on August 14, 2016 Water year 2017: 45.85 ft on January 19, 2017 Water year 2018: 43.14 ft on June 12, 2018 Water year 2019: 45.54 ft on May 11, 2019 Water year 2020: 44.40 ft on July 6, 2020 Water year 2021: 45.34 ft on October 10, 2020 Water year 2022: 40.82 ft on August 3, 2022 Water year 2023: 42.17 ft on January 29, 2023 Water year 2024: 40.18 ft on December 1, 2023 Water year 2025: 38.92 ft on November 1, 2024 Water year 2026: 42.81 ft on June 18, 2026 Water year 2027 so far: 35.96 ft on October 4, 2026 2016 1983 2001

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 (3 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.

Download the readings

hurricane-creek-at-baton-rouge.csv (CSV): every reading stored for this gauge since September 11, 2026, 4,046 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.