Otter Creek near Okeechobee, 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 02274005 sits on Otter Creek and reads everything draining 8.6 square miles of the Northern Okeechobee Inflow basin. Its datum sits essentially at sea level NAVD88. Daily flow has been on record here since 2003, 23 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 Taylor Creek near Okeechobee, FL at 45 square miles, so what passes this gauge is about 19% of the water measured there. Water passing here goes on to Taylor Creek at Grassy Island near Okeechobee, FL.

Normal flows here

Otter Creek runs a median of 1.6 cfs at this gauge across 23 years of record. September is the fullest month at a median 4.8 cfs, and May the leanest at 0.9 cfs. The highest daily mean on record is 437 cfs in 2008, and the lowest is 0.0 cfs in 2019.

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