Gulf Coast Gauges

Wakulla River near Crawfordville water level

USGS gauge 02327022 · Wakulla County · Apalachicola and Tallahassee · NWS gauge WKRF1

4.65 ft

gage height, Oct 23, 2026 at 3:30 PM EDT · 3 hours ago

Highest since 2005 (USGS)
9.02 ft (July 10, 2005)
Usual range
3.83 to 4.96 ft

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

No National Weather Service alert covering Wakulla County was active when this page was generated (Oct 23, 2026 at 6:50 PM EDT). Alerts are issued and expire at any time; the current list is at alerts.weather.gov.

Last 7 days

3.8 4.4 5.0 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 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

3.4 4.8 6.1 2026-09-11 – 2026-10-23 · bars are daily low to high

Annual peaks since 2005

In 18 complete water years of comparable USGS records (since 2005), the highest peak was 9.02 ft on July 10, 2005. So far in water year 2027 (since October 1) the highest reading is 6.14 ft on October 10, 2026, higher than the annual peak in 13 of 18 years.

4 5 7 8 9 2005 2010 2015 2020 2025 Water year 2005: 9.02 ft on July 10, 2005 Water year 2006: 4.50 ft on June 12, 2006 Water year 2007: 4.68 ft on December 25, 2006 Water year 2008: 6.50 ft on September 1, 2008 Water year 2009: 5.76 ft on April 6, 2009 Water year 2010: 5.77 ft on January 25, 2010 Water year 2012: 7.12 ft on June 26, 2012 Water year 2013: 6.00 ft on February 28, 2013 Water year 2014: 5.62 ft on March 20, 2014 Water year 2015: 5.58 ft on December 24, 2014 Water year 2016: 7.49 ft on September 2, 2016 Water year 2017: 5.09 ft on June 23, 2017 Water year 2018: 5.80 ft on May 28, 2018 Water year 2019: 8.90 ft on October 10, 2018 Water year 2022: 5.46 ft on January 16, 2022 Water year 2023: 5.34 ft on August 30, 2023 Water year 2025: 5.24 ft on March 16, 2025 Water year 2026: 5.36 ft on July 21, 2026 Water year 2027 so far: 6.14 ft on October 10, 2026 2005 2019 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
July 10, 20059.02 ft—
October 10, 20188.93 ft—
September 2, 20167.49 ft—
June 26, 20147.12 ft—
August 26, 20086.32 ft—
March 1, 20135.90 ft—
January 25, 20105.77 ft—
April 6, 20095.76 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

wakulla-river-near-crawfordville.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.