Performance
Statistics
How BayouWatch has performed over time, and what Houston’s bayous have actually done over the last 30 days.
- Sensor uptime
- 99.6%
- +0.4 pt vs last year
- Median alert time
- 34 s
- Sensor reading to SMS
- Flood events tracked
- 30
- Since 2021
- Average warning
- 43 min
- Ahead of confirmed flooding
Flood events by year
Sensor uptime, 12 months
98.2%99.8% now
Alert response time, 12 months
88 s34 s now
The last 30 days, from the gauges
Daily peak stage at every USGS gauge, with its highest reading of the month and how close that came to flood stage.
Buffalo · W Belt
42.7 ft
30-day peak · 48% of flood stage · Oct 7, 8:45 PM
Buffalo · Piney Point
35.5 ft
30-day peak · 48% of flood stage · Oct 2, 4:30 AM
Brickhouse Gully
53.1 ft
30-day peak · 94% of flood stage · Oct 2, 4:30 AM
White Oak · Heights
16.9 ft
30-day peak · 53% of flood stage · Oct 2, 5:30 AM
Brays · Main St
23.4 ft
30-day peak · 43% of flood stage · Oct 2, 4:15 AM
Sims · Telephone Rd
3.7 ft
30-day peak · 14% of flood stage · Oct 1, 1:30 PM
Greens · Aldine
41.8 ft
30-day peak · 47% of flood stage · Oct 2, 11:30 AM
Greens · Ley Rd
4.2 ft
30-day peak · 14% of flood stage · Oct 2, 6:15 AM