Luce Bayou at SH-99 near Huffman water level

USGS gauge 08071250 · Liberty County · Luce Bayou watershed · NWS gauge HFFT2

54.35 ft

gage height, Oct 20, 2026 at 12:15 PM CDT · 35 minutes ago

Below NWS minor flood stage: 16.1 ft
NWS action stage: 67.5 ft
NWS minor flood stage: 70.5 ft
Highest since 2006 (USGS): 73.54 ft (May 3, 2024)
Usual range: 53.95 to 54.77 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 12:50 PM 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 11, 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.

Daily highs and lows since September 11, 2026

Annual peaks since 2006

In 5 complete water years of comparable USGS records (since 2006), the highest peak was 73.54 ft on May 3, 2024. So far in water year 2027 (since October 1) the highest reading is 57.97 ft on October 2, 2026, higher than the annual peak in 1 of 5 years.

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.

In past storms

Storm	Peak	Peak time	Rise	Compared with its record
October 1–2, 2026	57.97 ft	Oct 2, 2026 at 11:15 PM CDT	4.0 ft	highest since water year 2026 (67.09 ft on July 16, 2026)

Harris County gauge nearby

Luce Bayou at SH 99, less than 0.1 mi away, read 54.81 ft at Oct 20, 2026 at 11:13 AM CDT, 15.7 ft below its top of bank. Both gauges report water surface elevation.

Download the readings

luce-bayou-at-sh-99-near-huffman.csv (CSV): every reading stored for this gauge since September 11, 2026, 930 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.