Gulf Coast Gauges

North Calcasieu Lake near Hackberry water level

USGS gauge 08017095 · Cameron Parish · Lake Charles and Southwest Louisiana

3.85 ft

gage height, Oct 23, 2026 at 2:15 PM CDT · 4 hours ago

Highest since 2009 (USGS)
6.31 ft (March 20, 2012)
Usual range
3.24 to 4.67 ft

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

No National Weather Service alert covering Cameron Parish was active when this page was generated (Oct 23, 2026 at 5:50 PM CDT). Alerts are issued and expire at any time; the current list is at alerts.weather.gov.

Last 7 days

1.8 3.2 4.7 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. It is not a water depth. USGS publishes no datum elevation for this gauge, so it can't be converted to an elevation here.

Daily highs and lows since September 11, 2026

1.7 3.5 5.3 2026-09-11 – 2026-10-23 · bars are daily low to high

Annual peaks since 1998

In 14 complete water years of comparable USGS records (since 2009), the highest peak was 6.31 ft on March 20, 2012. So far in water year 2027 (since October 1) the highest reading is 5.30 ft on October 1, 2026, higher than the annual peak in 3 of 14 years.

2 4 6 8 10 2000 2005 2010 2015 2020 2025 Water year 1998: 4.49 ft on September 12, 1998 (different datum or site: not compared) Water year 1999: 2.92 ft on May 4, 1999 (different datum or site: not compared) Water year 2000: 2.81 ft on May 18, 2000 (different datum or site: not compared) Water year 2001: 3.04 ft on June 5, 2001 (different datum or site: not compared) Water year 2002: 3.55 ft on October 13, 2001 (different datum or site: not compared) Water year 2003: 3.60 ft on October 29, 2002 (different datum or site: not compared) Water year 2004: 3.04 ft on November 18, 2003 (different datum or site: not compared) Water year 2005: 3.14 ft on September 23, 2005 (different datum or site: not compared) Water year 2006: 8.22 ft on March 9, 2006 (different datum or site: not compared) Water year 2007: 9.65 ft on October 16, 2006 (different datum or site: not compared) Water year 2008: 8.39 ft on September 12, 2008 (different datum or site: not compared) Water year 2009: 4.89 ft on September 13, 2009 Water year 2010: 5.41 ft on September 23, 2010 Water year 2011: 5.73 ft on October 26, 2010 Water year 2012: 6.31 ft on March 20, 2012 Water year 2013: 5.16 ft on September 20, 2013 Water year 2014: 5.26 ft on October 31, 2013 Water year 2015: 5.37 ft on June 16, 2015 Water year 2016: 5.75 ft on April 18, 2016 Water year 2021: 6.18 ft on May 22, 2021 Water year 2022: 5.73 ft on October 24, 2021 Water year 2023: 5.44 ft on March 16, 2023 Water year 2024: 6.23 ft on July 8, 2024 Water year 2025: 5.68 ft on November 5, 2024 Water year 2026: 5.77 ft on June 17, 2026 Water year 2027 so far: 5.30 ft on October 1, 2026 2012 2024 2021

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 (11 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

north-calcasieu-lake-near-hackberry.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.