Live/Water
River and lake gauges
The water level now at 13,870 gauges on rivers, lakes, reservoirs and canals across the United States, each on its own page with where it stands, how reliably it reports and its 247 rank.
- Alabama162 gauges
- Alaska187 gauges
- Arizona169 gauges
- Arkansas197 gauges
- California1,238 gauges
- Colorado718 gauges
- Connecticut70 gauges
- Delaware10 gauges
- District of Columbia4 gauges
- Florida531 gauges
- Georgia335 gauges
- Hawaii83 gauges
- Idaho226 gauges
- Illinois252 gauges
- Indiana228 gauges
- Iowa466 gauges
- Kansas238 gauges
- Kentucky174 gauges
- Louisiana430 gauges
- Maine70 gauges
- Maryland183 gauges
- Massachusetts95 gauges
- Michigan177 gauges
- Minnesota333 gauges
- Mississippi144 gauges
- Missouri292 gauges
- Montana260 gauges
- Nebraska275 gauges
- Nevada160 gauges
- New Hampshire63 gauges
- New Jersey149 gauges
- New Mexico151 gauges
- New York310 gauges
- North Carolina577 gauges
- North Dakota121 gauges
- Ohio243 gauges
- Oklahoma221 gauges
- Oregon387 gauges
- Pennsylvania291 gauges
- Puerto Rico107 gauges
- Rhode Island21 gauges
- South Carolina216 gauges
- South Dakota207 gauges
- Tennessee188 gauges
- Texas1,335 gauges
- Utah145 gauges
- Vermont48 gauges
- Virginia409 gauges
- Washington330 gauges
- West Virginia170 gauges
- Wisconsin178 gauges
- Wyoming296 gauges
How to read a gauge
A gauge measures the height of the water where it stands, its stage, in feet above a fixed mark at that gauge. Two gauges' stages are not comparable: each is measured from its own mark, and a reservoir's is often its height above sea level.
The stage shown is the latest the gauge reported, with the time it reported it. Storm Station hears each gauge on its own schedule and ranks it among its state's stations by its 247 score, how reliably it reports and how its readings hold up: that is its 247 rank.