Gulf Coast Gauges

Sabine River (at Navy Pier) at Orange water level

USGS gauge 08030540 · Orange County · Beaumont–Port Arthur · NWS gauge ORNT2

0.58 ft

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

Below NWS minor flood stage
3.4 ft
NWS action stage
3.5 ft
NWS minor flood stage
4.0 ft
NWS moderate flood stage
5.0 ft
NWS major flood stage
6.0 ft
Highest since 2008 (USGS)
9.86 ft (September 13, 2008)
Usual range
0.47 to 1.71 ft

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

No National Weather Service alert covering Orange 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

-0.7 0.5 1.7 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 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

-0.7 0.7 2.1 2026-09-11 – 2026-10-23 · bars are daily low to high

Annual peaks since 2008

In 19 complete water years of comparable USGS records (since 2008), the highest peak was 9.86 ft on September 13, 2008. So far in water year 2027 (since October 1) the highest reading is 2.09 ft on October 10, 2026.

1 4 6 8 10 2010 2015 2020 2025 major 6 ft moderate 5 ft minor 4 ft action 3.5 ft Water year 2008: 9.86 ft on September 13, 2008 Water year 2009: 2.87 ft on April 27, 2009 Water year 2010: 3.64 ft on October 22, 2009 Water year 2011: 3.10 ft on April 27, 2011 Water year 2012: 3.42 ft on March 20, 2012 Water year 2013: 3.15 ft on September 20, 2013 Water year 2014: 3.20 ft on October 31, 2013 Water year 2015: 3.48 ft on June 17, 2015 Water year 2016: 7.62 ft on March 17, 2016 Water year 2017: 7.94 ft on September 3, 2017 Water year 2018: 3.40 ft on April 6, 2018 Water year 2019: 4.01 ft on May 22, 2019 Water year 2020: 4.27 ft on September 23, 2020 Water year 2021: 4.76 ft on May 22, 2021 Water year 2022: 2.26 ft on October 27, 2021 Water year 2023: 2.13 ft on March 3, 2023 Water year 2024: 3.48 ft on July 8, 2024 Water year 2025: 2.76 ft on April 5, 2025 Water year 2026: 2.33 ft on June 17, 2026 Water year 2027 so far: 2.09 ft on October 10, 2026 2008 2017 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.

NWS historic crests

DateCrestAbove minor flood stage
September 3, 20177.83 ft3.8 ft
March 17, 20167.62 ft3.6 ft
April 25, 19136.27 ft2.3 ft
July 8, 19895.92 ft1.9 ft
August 23, 19155.77 ft1.8 ft
May 24, 19535.67 ft1.7 ft
May 2, 19145.47 ft1.5 ft
April 16, 19235.47 ft1.5 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

sabine-river-at-navy-pier-at-orange.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.