Flint River level at Oakfield
Georgia · Fishing & wading
Measured at USGS 02350512 — FLINT RIVER AT GA 32, NEAR OAKFIELD, GA · NWS forecast point OKFG1
Reading taken · as of 43 min ago
About normal for the date
At 1,590 CFS, this gauge is inside the middle half of the 68 years USGS has recorded for this date (1930–2026), at 104% of the 1,530 CFS median.
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Flood stages at Oakfield
National Weather Service categories for gauge OKFG1, WFO TAE. Impact wording is the NWS's own, verbatim.
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Minor flood 23.0 ft
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Action 18.0 ft
- Right now 3.56 ft
Flow history at Oakfield
Daily values from USGS 02350512, updated every 15 to 60 minutes; NWS forecast for OKFG1 reissued through the day. Provisional.
Highest crests on record at Oakfield
12 on record
| Stage | Flow | Date |
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| 40.10 ft | — | Jul 10, 1994 |
| 28.11 ft | — | Mar 10, 1998 |
| 27.79 ft | 51,600 CFS | Dec 30, 2016 |
| 27.37 ft | — | Mar 23, 1990 |
| 26.88 ft | 48,700 CFS | Mar 6, 2020 |
| 26.04 ft | — | Mar 29, 2005 |
| 25.32 ft | — | Apr 3, 2009 |
| 23.41 ft | 39,300 CFS | Feb 24, 2020 |
| 22.87 ft | 3,800 CFS | Feb 17, 2024 |
| 21.47 ft | 34,421 CFS | Mar 13, 2024 |
Crests published by the National Weather Service.
About Flint River at Oakfield
USGS publishes this station as Flint River at GA 32, near Oakfield. Its defining event is 10 July 1994, when the annual peak reached 112,000 CFS at a stage of 40.1 feet and the daily mean hit 109,000 CFS. Both remain records by a wide margin: the next highest crest on the NWS list is 28.11 feet from March 1998, twelve feet lower.
Below Lake Blackshear the everyday river is far more moderate. Published monthly medians run from 1,560 CFS in September to 5,830 in March, under four to one on a 3,880 square mile basin, and the daily statistics window covers 1930 to 2026. The lowest daily mean in that series is 152 CFS, from 8 June 1941. The NWS defines only action stage at 18 feet and minor flood at 23; moderate and major are not published, which means the 1994 crest sits seventeen feet above the highest named category.
Reservoir feeding this stretch
Flow here is set by releases from Lake Blackshear. A full pool usually means more water on its way down.
Flint River at Oakfield — common questions
6 questions
How far outside the record was the 1994 flood?
Far enough that it distorts every summary of this station. The 40.1 foot crest of 10 July 1994 is nearly twelve feet above the next entry on the crest list, and the 112,000 CFS peak is twenty-two thousand above the second largest, which is 90,000 CFS from January 1925. Of sixty-nine annual peaks on file spanning 1925 to 2024, nothing else has come close.
Is there a peer gauge to compare against?
No. The nearest gauge on this site that reports discharge is the Chattahoochee at Fort Gaines, 61.9 miles away in straight-line distance but on a different river system, and no discharge-reporting peer inside the 70 mile limit produced a usable overlap. This page therefore carries no correlation figure.
What are the flood categories here?
Action stage is 18 feet and minor flood is 23 feet at the Oakfield forecast point. Moderate and major flood stages are not published, so once the river is above 23 feet the categories stop describing it. Five of the twelve crests on file are above 26 feet.
How do releases from Lake Blackshear affect this stretch?
Directly and fast. When the dam generates, flow here can climb by an order of magnitude within the hour, with no rain anywhere in the basin. That sudden release is the real hazard on a tailwater. The pool level is on lakelvl.com, linked below.
Is Flint River at Oakfield high or low for this time of year?
The USGS median flow for late September here is 1,530 CFS, from 68 years of record (1930–2026). Today sits inside the middle half of those years, at 104% of the median. The comparison is what makes the raw number mean anything: the same reading is a drought on one river and a flood on another.
How often does this reading update?
USGS transmits from gauge 02350512 every 15 to 60 minutes, and the National Weather Service reissues the flood forecast for OKFG1 a few times a day — more often when the river is rising. This page refreshes from both when you open it. The timestamp is in the gauge's local time.