Gulf Coast Gauges

Vermilion River near Lafayette water level

USGS gauge 07386850 · St. Martin Parish · Lafayette and Acadiana · NWS gauge VRLL1

3.44 ft

gage height, Oct 23, 2026 at 3:00 PM CDT · 2 hours ago

Below NWS minor flood stage
7.6 ft
NWS action stage
10.0 ft
NWS minor flood stage
11.0 ft
NWS moderate flood stage
13.0 ft
NWS major flood stage
14.0 ft
Highest since 1997 (USGS)
15.01 ft (August 17, 2016)
Usual range
3.21 to 3.96 ft

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

No National Weather Service alert covering St. Martin Parish 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

2.7 3.3 4.0 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

2.7 3.5 4.3 2026-09-11 – 2026-10-23 · bars are daily low to high

Annual peaks since 1997

In 30 complete water years of comparable USGS records (since 1997), the highest peak was 15.01 ft on August 17, 2016. So far in water year 2027 (since October 1) the highest reading is 4.22 ft on October 1, 2026.

3 6 10 13 16 2000 2005 2010 2015 2020 2025 major 14 ft moderate 13 ft minor 11 ft action 10 ft Water year 1997: 10.31 ft on October 29, 1996 Water year 1998: 10.56 ft on January 15, 1998 Water year 1999: 8.70 ft on May 31, 1999 Water year 2000: 5.71 ft on December 21, 1999 Water year 2001: 12.78 ft on June 10, 2001 Water year 2002: 9.99 ft on April 8, 2002 Water year 2003: 10.50 ft on November 5, 2002 Water year 2004: 11.72 ft on May 19, 2004 Water year 2005: 9.85 ft on September 24, 2005 Water year 2006: 9.06 ft on April 29, 2006 Water year 2007: 9.75 ft on January 7, 2007 Water year 2008: 9.50 ft on May 22, 2008 Water year 2009: 8.11 ft on April 19, 2009 Water year 2010: 8.61 ft on December 18, 2009 Water year 2011: 8.39 ft on December 30, 2010 Water year 2012: 9.33 ft on March 21, 2012 Water year 2013: 11.25 ft on January 14, 2013 Water year 2014: 10.12 ft on May 28, 2014 Water year 2015: 9.05 ft on April 27, 2015 Water year 2016: 15.01 ft on August 17, 2016 Water year 2017: 9.90 ft on May 3, 2017 Water year 2018: 9.13 ft on November 1, 2017 Water year 2019: 10.82 ft on June 6, 2019 Water year 2020: 10.36 ft on August 27, 2020 Water year 2021: 12.70 ft on May 21, 2021 Water year 2022: 9.48 ft on August 25, 2022 Water year 2023: 8.94 ft on April 7, 2023 Water year 2024: 8.87 ft on December 1, 2023 Water year 2025: 10.42 ft on May 10, 2025 Water year 2026: 9.28 ft on May 13, 2026 Water year 2027 so far: 4.22 ft on October 1, 2026 2016 2001 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.

NWS historic crests

DateCrestAbove minor flood stage
August 17, 201615.00 ft4.0 ft
June 10, 200112.78 ft1.8 ft
May 19, 200411.72 ft0.7 ft
January 15, 199810.56 ft—
November 5, 200210.50 ft—
April 8, 20029.99 ft—
September 24, 20059.94 ft—
May 31, 19998.70 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

vermilion-river-near-lafayette.csv (CSV): every reading stored for this gauge since September 11, 2026, 4,049 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.