Fisheating Creek at Palmdale, 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 02256500 sits on Fisheating Creek and reads everything draining 311 square miles of the Western Okeechobee Inflow basin. Its datum sits 27 feet above sea level NGVD29. Daily flow has been on record here since 1931, 95 years of it.

Where this gauge sits in the drainage

One gauged site sits upstream of here. The closest is Fisheating Creek near Lake Placid,fl, reading 60 square miles. This gauge adds the 251 square miles that drain in between. Downstream the next reading comes from Lake Okeechobee, FL at 5,650 square miles, so what passes this gauge is about 6% of the water measured there.

Normal flows here

Fisheating Creek runs a median of 19 cfs at this gauge across 95 years of record. September is the fullest month at a median 420 cfs, and May the leanest at 0.5 cfs. The highest daily mean on record is 30,500 cfs in 1952, and the lowest is 0.0 cfs in 1957.

Medians from the USGS daily-statistics record, 1931 to 2026. A month at 100% is running at its own long-term median.

Flood stages and record crests

Fisheating Creek reaches flood stage at this gauge at 7 feet. NWS starts watching it at 5 feet. The highest crest on record is 12.4 feet, in October 1951.

Flood categories and crest history from the NOAA National Water Prediction Service, gauge PLMF1. Stages are gage height, not depth. Not for navigation.