Banister River at Halifax, VA Water Level Today

NWS river forecast

Forecast from the NOAA National Water Prediction Service. Issued a few times a day and only while a forecast is active. Not for navigation.

Last 30 days

About this gauge

USGS gauge 02077000 sits on the Banister River and reads everything draining 547 square miles of the Banister basin. Its datum sits 315 feet above sea level NAVD88. Daily flow has been on record here since 1905, 99 years of it.

Where this gauge sits in the drainage

Halifax Reservoir (Banister Lake) at Halifax, VA sits immediately upstream, so dam releases rather than rainfall set the flow here. One gauged site sits upstream of here. The closest is Halifax Reservoir (Banister Lake) at Halifax, VA, reading 508 square miles. This gauge adds the 39 square miles that drain in between. Downstream the next reading comes from John H Kerr Reservoir at Dam near Boydton, VA at 7,866 square miles, so what passes this gauge is about 7% of the water measured there.

Normal flows here

The Banister River runs a median of 284 cfs at this gauge across 99 years of record. March is the fullest month at a median 522 cfs, and September the leanest at 143 cfs. The highest daily mean on record is 44,700 cfs in 1944, and the lowest is 6.0 cfs in 1932.

Medians from the USGS daily-statistics record, 1905 to 2026. A month at 100% is running at its own long-term median.

Flood stages and record crests

NWS action stage at this gauge is 16 feet. The highest crest on record is 40.8 feet, in September 1944.

Flood categories and crest history from the NOAA National Water Prediction Service, gauge HALV2. Stages are gage height, not depth. Not for navigation.