Gulf Coast Gauges

Mobile River at River Mile 31.0 at Bucks water level

USGS gauge 02470629 · Mobile County · Mobile Bay

2.02 ft

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

Highest since 2004 (USGS)
15.18 ft (February 26, 2020)
Usual range
0.64 to 2.37 ft

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

No National Weather Service alert covering Mobile 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

-1.0 0.7 2.4 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 0.13 ft NAVD88. It is not a water depth and not an elevation: add 0.13 ft to get the water surface elevation.

Daily highs and lows since September 11, 2026

-1.1 1.0 3.1 2026-09-11 – 2026-10-23 · bars are daily low to high

Annual peaks since 2004

In 23 complete water years of comparable USGS records (since 2004), the highest peak was 15.18 ft on February 26, 2020. So far in water year 2027 (since October 1) the highest reading is 3.11 ft on October 2, 2026.

2 6 9 13 16 2005 2010 2015 2020 2025 Water year 2004: 9.18 ft on February 18, 2004 Water year 2005: 10.95 ft on April 8, 2005 Water year 2006: 7.25 ft on March 3, 2006 Water year 2007: 6.44 ft on January 12, 2007 Water year 2008: 5.11 ft on September 1, 2008 Water year 2009: 11.96 ft on April 4, 2009 Water year 2010: 10.41 ft on December 25, 2009 Water year 2011: 10.63 ft on March 18, 2011 Water year 2012: 6.11 ft on February 1, 2012 Water year 2013: 11.07 ft on February 19, 2013 Water year 2014: 11.43 ft on April 17, 2014 Water year 2015: 8.06 ft on January 12, 2015 Water year 2016: 12.21 ft on January 6, 2016 Water year 2017: 10.29 ft on June 30, 2017 Water year 2018: 8.62 ft on February 18, 2018 Water year 2019: 12.38 ft on March 7, 2019 Water year 2020: 15.18 ft on February 26, 2020 Water year 2021: 10.32 ft on April 8, 2021 Water year 2022: 9.56 ft on March 31, 2022 Water year 2023: 8.58 ft on February 24, 2023 Water year 2024: 9.04 ft on February 20, 2024 Water year 2025: 9.20 ft on April 15, 2025 Water year 2026: 6.50 ft on June 25, 2026 Water year 2027 so far: 3.11 ft on October 2, 2026 2020 2016

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.

Download the readings

mobile-river-at-river-mile-31-0-at-bucks.csv (CSV): every reading stored for this gauge since September 11, 2026, 3,605 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.