Buffalo Bayou Nr Addicks, TX
Harris County, Texas · USGS 08073500
Latest observation
What this gauge represents: This gauge measures conditions on Buffalo Bayou at its USGS monitoring location in Harris County; conditions elsewhere on the waterway may differ.
Observed · 54 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.
Current conditions · Falling
Streamflow is currently 80 ft³/s. Flow has fallen 9 CFS over the past 24 hours.
How trends & context are calculated →Streamflow trend
Daily mean streamflow · Aug 28–Sep 25 · dates shown in UTC · 29 observations
Look at the data (29 rows)
| Date (UTC) | Daily mean |
|---|---|
| Aug 28, 2026, 12:00 AM | 8.99 CFS |
| Aug 29, 2026, 12:00 AM | 110 CFS |
| Aug 30, 2026, 12:00 AM | 6 CFS |
| Aug 31, 2026, 12:00 AM | 98.7 CFS |
| Sep 1, 2026, 12:00 AM | 63.4 CFS |
| Sep 2, 2026, 12:00 AM | 95.2 CFS |
| Sep 3, 2026, 12:00 AM | 61.4 CFS |
| Sep 4, 2026, 12:00 AM | 344 CFS |
| Sep 5, 2026, 12:00 AM | 569 CFS |
| Sep 6, 2026, 12:00 AM | 111 CFS |
| Sep 7, 2026, 12:00 AM | 105 CFS |
| Sep 8, 2026, 12:00 AM | 57.6 CFS |
| Sep 9, 2026, 12:00 AM | 32.7 CFS |
| Sep 10, 2026, 12:00 AM | 212 CFS |
| Sep 11, 2026, 12:00 AM | 262 CFS |
| Sep 12, 2026, 12:00 AM | 226 CFS |
| Sep 13, 2026, 12:00 AM | 13.8 CFS |
| Sep 14, 2026, 12:00 AM | 123 CFS |
| Sep 15, 2026, 12:00 AM | 8.06 CFS |
| Sep 16, 2026, 12:00 AM | 6.05 CFS |
| Sep 17, 2026, 12:00 AM | 90 CFS |
| Sep 18, 2026, 12:00 AM | 4.78 CFS |
| Sep 19, 2026, 12:00 AM | 78.6 CFS |
| Sep 20, 2026, 12:00 AM | 4.65 CFS |
| Sep 21, 2026, 12:00 AM | 11.6 CFS |
| Sep 22, 2026, 12:00 AM | 13.9 CFS |
| Sep 23, 2026, 12:00 AM | 99.2 CFS |
| Sep 24, 2026, 12:00 AM | 9.93 CFS |
| Sep 25, 2026, 12:00 AM | 93.2 CFS |
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