Bowlegs Creek near Fort Meade 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 02295013 sits on Bowlegs Creek and reads everything draining 47 square miles of the Peace basin. Its datum sits 95 feet above sea level NGVD29. Daily flow has been on record here since 1965, 39 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 Peace River at Bowling Green FL at 613 square miles, so what passes this gauge is about 8% of the water measured there. Water passing here goes on to Peace River at State Hwy 664A near Wauchula FL and Peace River at US 17 at Zolfo Springs, FL.

Normal flows here

Bowlegs Creek runs a median of 6.7 cfs at this gauge across 39 years of record. September is the fullest month at a median 39 cfs, and May the leanest at 2.1 cfs. The highest daily mean on record is 2,920 cfs in 2022, and the lowest is 0.2 cfs in 2013.

Medians from the USGS daily-statistics record, 1965 to 2026. A month at 100% is running at its own long-term median.