Gulf Coast Gauges

Sabine River near Burkeville water level

USGS gauge 08026000 · Newton County · Beaumont–Port Arthur · NWS gauge BRVT2

10.88 ft

gage height, Oct 23, 2026 at 2:15 PM CDT · 35 minutes ago

Below NWS minor flood stage
25.1 ft
NWS action stage
30.0 ft
NWS minor flood stage
36.0 ft
NWS moderate flood stage
40.0 ft
NWS major flood stage
44.0 ft
Highest since 1990 (USGS)
54.88 ft (March 11, 2016)
Usual range
10.92 to 13.92 ft

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

No National Weather Service alert covering Newton County was active when this page was generated (Oct 23, 2026 at 2:50 PM CDT). Alerts are issued and expire at any time; the current list is at alerts.weather.gov.

Last 7 days

10.9 12.4 13.9 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 60.12 ft NAVD88. It is not a water depth and not an elevation: add 60.12 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

10.9 13.5 16.1 2026-09-11 – 2026-10-23 · bars are daily low to high

Annual peaks since 1945

In 37 complete water years of comparable USGS records (since 1990), the highest peak was 54.88 ft on March 11, 2016. So far in water year 2027 (since October 1) the highest reading is 11.10 ft on October 2, 2026.

8 20 33 46 58 1950 1960 1970 1980 1990 2000 2010 2020 major 44 ft moderate 40 ft minor 36 ft action 30 ft Water year 1945: 45.80 ft on April 15, 1945 (different datum or site: not compared) Water year 1953: 45.30 ft on May 23, 1953 (different datum or site: not compared) Water year 1956: 17.73 ft on April 12, 1956 (different datum or site: not compared) Water year 1957: 32.43 ft on May 15, 1957 (different datum or site: not compared) Water year 1958: 30.42 ft on May 21, 1958 (different datum or site: not compared) Water year 1959: 22.54 ft on April 20, 1959 (different datum or site: not compared) Water year 1960: 22.22 ft on February 27, 1960 (different datum or site: not compared) Water year 1961: 27.63 ft on January 14, 1961 (different datum or site: not compared) Water year 1962: 26.58 ft on December 22, 1961 (different datum or site: not compared) Water year 1963: 16.03 ft on December 30, 1962 (different datum or site: not compared) Water year 1964: 19.83 ft on April 28, 1964 (different datum or site: not compared) Water year 1965: 19.39 ft on April 2, 1965 (different datum or site: not compared) Water year 1966: 30.13 ft on May 19, 1966 (different datum or site: not compared) Water year 1967: 11.99 ft on June 2, 1967 (different datum or site: not compared) Water year 1968: 22.44 ft on April 10, 1968 (different datum or site: not compared) Water year 1969: 29.56 ft on May 11, 1969 (different datum or site: not compared) Water year 1970: 19.14 ft on April 19, 1970 (different datum or site: not compared) Water year 1971: 16.05 ft on June 10, 1971 (different datum or site: not compared) Water year 1972: 21.41 ft on January 4, 1972 (different datum or site: not compared) Water year 1973: 29.11 ft on May 10, 1973 (different datum or site: not compared) Water year 1974: 34.20 ft on January 29, 1974 (different datum or site: not compared) Water year 1975: 29.17 ft on February 18, 1975 (different datum or site: not compared) Water year 1976: 21.23 ft on June 3, 1976 (different datum or site: not compared) Water year 1977: 18.23 ft on March 4, 1977 (different datum or site: not compared) Water year 1979: 25.40 ft on March 6, 1979 (different datum or site: not compared) Water year 1980: 28.25 ft on May 20, 1980 (different datum or site: not compared) Water year 1981: 15.83 ft on August 10, 1981 (different datum or site: not compared) Water year 1982: 25.05 ft on April 22, 1982 (different datum or site: not compared) Water year 1983: 30.20 ft on May 24, 1983 (different datum or site: not compared) Water year 1984: 20.63 ft on March 5, 1984 (different datum or site: not compared) Water year 1985: 17.78 ft on March 20, 1985 (different datum or site: not compared) Water year 1986: 27.52 ft on June 13, 1986 (different datum or site: not compared) Water year 1987: 21.00 ft on February 27, 1987 (different datum or site: not compared) Water year 1988: 19.16 ft on December 21, 1987 (different datum or site: not compared) Water year 1989: 47.45 ft on May 20, 1989 (different datum or site: not compared) Water year 1990: 39.30 ft on June 3, 1990 Water year 1991: 44.66 ft on April 20, 1991 Water year 1992: 38.17 ft on March 8, 1992 Water year 1993: 34.18 ft on April 10, 1993 Water year 1994: 29.57 ft on March 9, 1994 Water year 1995: 35.78 ft on April 29, 1995 Water year 1996: 21.57 ft on February 5, 1996 Water year 1997: 40.26 ft on March 7, 1997 Water year 1998: 33.03 ft on January 23, 1998 Water year 1999: 48.05 ft on February 1, 1999 Water year 2000: 25.71 ft on September 6, 2000 Water year 2001: 45.39 ft on March 6, 2001 Water year 2002: 31.37 ft on April 15, 2002 Water year 2003: 32.05 ft on March 4, 2003 Water year 2004: 31.80 ft on May 14, 2004 Water year 2005: 29.34 ft on November 24, 2004 Water year 2006: 23.39 ft on June 20, 2006 Water year 2007: 28.33 ft on July 30, 2007 Water year 2008: 37.12 ft on April 6, 2008 Water year 2009: 27.26 ft on March 27, 2009 Water year 2010: 44.29 ft on November 3, 2009 Water year 2011: 21.37 ft on February 19, 2011 Water year 2012: 30.73 ft on March 23, 2012 Water year 2013: 25.22 ft on January 28, 2013 Water year 2014: 25.84 ft on November 28, 2013 Water year 2015: 40.90 ft on May 24, 2015 Water year 2016: 54.88 ft on March 11, 2016 Water year 2017: 46.29 ft on September 1, 2017 Water year 2018: 42.51 ft on March 31, 2018 Water year 2019: 42.62 ft on January 5, 2019 Water year 2020: 39.71 ft on April 26, 2020 Water year 2021: 37.51 ft on May 23, 2021 Water year 2022: 26.38 ft on March 23, 2022 Water year 2023: 26.64 ft on May 20, 2023 Water year 2024: 42.08 ft on June 9, 2024 Water year 2025: 30.40 ft on May 13, 2025 Water year 2026: 24.08 ft on January 27, 2026 Water year 2027 so far: 11.10 ft on October 2, 2026 2016 1999

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 (35 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.

NWS historic crests

DateCrestAbove minor flood stage
March 11, 201654.88 ft18.9 ft
February 1, 199948.05 ft12.0 ft
May 20, 198947.45 ft11.5 ft
July 3, 198946.82 ft10.8 ft
August 31, 201746.29 ft10.3 ft
May 1, 188445.90 ft9.9 ft
April 15, 194545.80 ft9.8 ft
March 6, 200145.39 ft9.4 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-near-burkeville.csv (CSV): every reading stored for this gauge since September 11, 2026, 4,037 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.