Licking River at Farmers, KY 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 03249500 sits on the Licking River and reads everything draining 827 square miles of the Licking basin. Its datum sits 646 feet above sea level NAVD88. Daily flow is on record here from 1974 to 2018, 31 years in all.

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 Licking River at Hwy 60 at Farmers, KY at 831 square miles, so what passes this gauge is about 100% of the water measured there.

Normal flows here

The Licking River runs a median of 396 cfs at this gauge across 31 years of record. March is the fullest month at a median 1,360 cfs, and August the leanest at 122 cfs. The highest daily mean on record is 8,700 cfs in 2015, and the lowest is 6.1 cfs in 1983.

Medians from the USGS daily-statistics record, 1974 to 2018. A month at 100% is running at its own long-term median. USGS stopped publishing a daily flow record at this gauge, so these are historical norms, not a baseline for current readings.