Fisheating Creek near Lake Placid,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 02255600 sits on Fisheating Creek and reads everything draining 60 square miles of the Western Okeechobee Inflow basin. Its datum sits essentially at sea level NAVD88. Daily flow has been on record here since 2003, 22 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 Fisheating Creek at Palmdale, FL at 311 square miles, so what passes this gauge is about 19% of the water measured there.

Normal flows here

Fisheating Creek runs a median of 2.7 cfs at this gauge across 22 years of record. September is the fullest month at a median 98 cfs, and May the leanest at 0.3 cfs. The highest daily mean on record is 1,220 cfs in 2017, and the lowest is 0.0 cfs in 2008.

Medians from the USGS daily-statistics record, 2003 to 2026. A month at 100% is running at its own long-term median.