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River levels in Arkansas.

111 USGS gauges report in Arkansas, but none of them carry a usable percentile baseline in the current national dataset — so they cannot be ranked against their own history today. The gauges are shown; their condition is not, because we do not know it.

111Gauges reporting1.3% of the national network
Ranked against historyNo usable baseline in this dataset
Where they are

Gauges across Arkansas.

One dot per reporting gauge, coloured by how today’s flow ranks against that gauge’s own record for this date.

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USGS daily values, September 9, 2026. The national map is searchable.

Almost every gauge here is drawn as a hollow ring: present, and explicitly not classified. That is not a statement that flows in Arkansas are normal — it means the percentile baselines these rankings depend on are missing for this state in the current national dataset.

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Reading it

What "below normal" actually means.

The one thing worth understanding before drawing a conclusion from this map.

Percentiles, not thresholds

Every gauge is ranked against its own record for this calendar day. A river that normally runs 40 cubic feet per second in August is "much below normal" at 12; one that normally runs 40,000 is not. That is why a single national colour scale works at all — the comparison is always local, and always seasonal. Gauges with fewer than ten years of record for the date are shown unclassified rather than assumed normal.

Not a flood warning system

This is a daily mean read against a daily percentile, refreshed twice a day. It cannot represent a fast-rising river. For flood forecasts and warnings in Arkansas, use NOAA's National Water Prediction Service and your local National Weather Service office; for life-safety information, follow your local emergency management agency.

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See Arkansas on the live map.

This page is a still frame. The national map is interactive — pan, zoom, filter, and read every record behind what you see here.

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