Gulf Coast Gauges

Pine Island Bayou above BI Pump Plant, Beaumont water level

USGS gauge 08041749 · Jefferson County · Beaumont–Port Arthur · NWS gauge BIPT2

3.56 ft

gage height, Oct 23, 2026 at 1:15 PM CDT · 50 minutes ago

Below NWS minor flood stage
7.4 ft
NWS action stage
10.0 ft
NWS minor flood stage
11.0 ft
NWS moderate flood stage
14.0 ft
NWS major flood stage
18.0 ft
Highest since 2005 (USGS)
28.97 ft (August 30, 2017)
Usual range
2.96 to 4.58 ft

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

No National Weather Service alert covering Jefferson County was active when this page was generated (Oct 23, 2026 at 2:05 PM CDT). Alerts are issued and expire at any time; the current list is at alerts.weather.gov.

Last 7 days

3.0 3.8 4.6 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 -0.84 ft NAVD88. It is not a water depth and not an elevation: add -0.84 ft to get the water surface elevation.

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

1.8 4.0 6.2 2026-09-11 – 2026-10-23 · bars are daily low to high

Annual peaks since 2005

In 22 complete water years of comparable USGS records (since 2005), the highest peak was 28.97 ft on August 30, 2017. So far in water year 2027 (since October 1) the highest reading is 4.79 ft on October 10, 2026, higher than the annual peak in 1 of 22 years.

2 9 17 24 31 2005 2010 2015 2020 2025 major 18 ft moderate 14 ft minor 11 ft action 10 ft Water year 2005: 10.21 ft on February 14, 2005 Water year 2006: 11.10 ft on August 1, 2006 Water year 2007: 17.34 ft on October 22, 2006 Water year 2008: 10.00 ft on September 13, 2008 Water year 2009: 8.52 ft on November 13, 2008 Water year 2010: 7.53 ft on February 12, 2010 Water year 2011: 4.07 ft on May 25, 2011 Water year 2012: 9.32 ft on March 21, 2012 Water year 2013: 7.54 ft on May 11, 2013 Water year 2014: 8.64 ft on November 6, 2013 Water year 2015: 12.89 ft on June 20, 2015 Water year 2016: 15.67 ft on June 6, 2016 Water year 2017: 28.97 ft on August 30, 2017 Water year 2018: 11.57 ft on April 2, 2018 Water year 2019: 17.71 ft on September 21, 2019 Water year 2020: 8.19 ft on October 31, 2019 Water year 2021: 14.35 ft on May 22, 2021 Water year 2022: 5.70 ft on January 21, 2022 Water year 2023: 9.26 ft on February 3, 2023 Water year 2024: 15.83 ft on May 6, 2024 Water year 2025: 8.71 ft on June 16, 2025 Water year 2026: 11.16 ft on September 6, 2026 Water year 2027 so far: 4.79 ft on October 10, 2026 2017 2019 2007

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.

NWS historic crests

DateCrestAbove minor flood stage
August 30, 201728.97 ft18.0 ft
September 21, 201917.71 ft6.7 ft
October 27, 200616.18 ft5.2 ft
June 6, 201615.84 ft4.8 ft
November 3, 201515.23 ft4.2 ft
April 2, 201811.57 ft0.6 ft
July 31, 200610.99 ft—
February 14, 200510.20 ft—

The highest crests the National Weather Service lists for this gauge, as published. They can differ from the USGS annual peaks above: USGS records the year's highest gage height, which is not always the crest the NWS lists for the same flood.

Download the readings

pine-island-bayou-above-bi-pump-plant-beaumont.csv (CSV): every reading stored for this gauge since September 11, 2026, 4,036 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.