Bayou Lafourche at Thibodaux, LA
Lafourche Parish, Louisiana · USGS 07381000
Latest observation
What this gauge represents: This gauge measures conditions on Bayou Lafourche at its USGS monitoring location in Lafourche Parish; conditions elsewhere on the waterway may differ.
Observed · 43 minutes ago
Observed
How to read these numbers
How much water moves past the gauge each second. Higher numbers mean more water is moving downstream.
The water-surface height at this gauge. It is useful for tracking rises, falls and flood thresholds, but it is not the river's total depth.
How much the latest reading has risen or fallen compared with roughly 24 hours earlier.
The typical streamflow for this date based on USGS historical statistics. A multiple such as 3× means current flow is about three times the historical median.
Get Water Data's plain-language summary of current flow, historical context and recent direction.
Official action and flood thresholds where available. These levels are specific to each gauge location.
Gauge height and flood stage are station-specific. A 12-foot reading at one gauge should not be directly compared with 12 feet at another.
Above historical median · Rising
Streamflow is currently 299 ft³/s, 65% above the historical median for this date. Flow has risen 6 CFS over the past 24 hours.
USGS-reported historical daily median for 09-27: 181 ft³/s · Based on USGS day-of-year statistics
How trends & context are calculated →Streamflow trend
Daily mean streamflow · Aug 28–Sep 25 · dates shown in UTC · 26 observations
Data gap: 3 calendar days are missing in this coverage. The line stops across missing observations.
Look at the data (26 rows)
| Date (UTC) | Daily mean |
|---|---|
| Aug 28, 2026, 12:00 AM | 494 CFS |
| Aug 29, 2026, 12:00 AM | 474 CFS |
| Aug 30, 2026, 12:00 AM | 464 CFS |
| Aug 31, 2026, 12:00 AM | 472 CFS |
| Sep 1, 2026, 12:00 AM | 463 CFS |
| Sep 2, 2026, 12:00 AM | 463 CFS |
| Sep 4, 2026, 12:00 AM | 464 CFS |
| Sep 5, 2026, 12:00 AM | 510 CFS |
| Sep 6, 2026, 12:00 AM | 508 CFS |
| Sep 7, 2026, 12:00 AM | 471 CFS |
| Sep 8, 2026, 12:00 AM | 461 CFS |
| Sep 9, 2026, 12:00 AM | 439 CFS |
| Sep 10, 2026, 12:00 AM | 444 CFS |
| Sep 11, 2026, 12:00 AM | 446 CFS |
| Sep 12, 2026, 12:00 AM | 430 CFS |
| Sep 13, 2026, 12:00 AM | 423 CFS |
| Sep 15, 2026, 12:00 AM | 409 CFS |
| Sep 16, 2026, 12:00 AM | 408 CFS |
| Sep 18, 2026, 12:00 AM | 366 CFS |
| Sep 19, 2026, 12:00 AM | 333 CFS |
| Sep 20, 2026, 12:00 AM | 329 CFS |
| Sep 21, 2026, 12:00 AM | 324 CFS |
| Sep 22, 2026, 12:00 AM | 317 CFS |
| Sep 23, 2026, 12:00 AM | 318 CFS |
| Sep 24, 2026, 12:00 AM | 312 CFS |
| Sep 25, 2026, 12:00 AM | 298 CFS |
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