Blue Cypress Creek near Fellsmere, FL 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 02231396 sits on Blue Cypress Creek and reads everything draining 105 square miles of the Upper St. Johns basin. Daily flow has been on record here since 1996, 31 years of it.

Where this gauge sits in the drainage

No gauged site sits above this one on the mainstem, so this is the first published reading on the river. Downstream the next reading comes from St Johns River near Melbourne, FL at 968 square miles, so what passes this gauge is about 11% of the water measured there.

Normal flows here

Blue Cypress Creek runs a median of 18 cfs at this gauge across 31 years of record. September is the fullest month at a median 122 cfs, and May the leanest at 0.6 cfs. The highest daily mean on record is 4,660 cfs in 2017, and the lowest is 0.0 cfs in 2001.

Medians from the USGS daily-statistics record, 1996 to 2026. A month at 100% is running at its own long-term median.

Flood stages and record crests

The highest crest on record is 30.1 feet, in September 2017.

Flood categories and crest history from the NOAA National Water Prediction Service, gauge BLUF1. Stages are gage height, not depth. Not for navigation.