Boggy Creek near Taft, 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 02262900 sits on Boggy Creek and reads everything draining 84 square miles of the Kissimmee basin. Its datum sits 56 feet above sea level NGVD29. Daily flow has been on record here since 1959, 66 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 Lake Hatchineha near Lake Wales, Fla at 1,162 square miles, so what passes this gauge is about 7% of the water measured there.

Normal flows here

Boggy Creek runs a median of 25 cfs at this gauge across 66 years of record. September is the fullest month at a median 98 cfs, and May the leanest at 9.5 cfs. The highest daily mean on record is 4,740 cfs in 2022, and the lowest is 0.0 cfs in 2000.

Medians from the USGS daily-statistics record, 1959 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 17.6 feet, in September 2022.

Flood categories and crest history from the NOAA National Water Prediction Service, gauge BCTF1. Stages are gage height, not depth. Not for navigation.