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USGS Gauge 03447890 — French Broad R at Blue Ridge Pkwy at Bent Creek Nc, North Carolina
Water temperature 49.5 °F. 0.6 °F below the five-year normal for this date.
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This gauge is not reporting
- 49.5 °F Water temperature
- — Cubic ft / second
- -0.6 °F vs 5-yr normal
- 53.2 °FThis date last year
This gauge is not sending water temperature — it has sent no water temperature for 315 days, since 17 November 2025. USGS still answers for it, with the last value it ever sent and nothing to say the sensor has gone, so nothing on this page is presented as a current reading. The figure above is modelled: this gauge's own fitted line, its intercept plus its slope against the 3-day mean air temperature over it, fitted on its own daily record, built from 1,055 days of this gauge's own record. A gauge stopping does not unmake what it recorded while it ran, and the record below is the same record the line was fitted on. Its scatter against that record is ±1.7 °F, and it is a statement about what this water usually does at this air temperature, not about what it is doing. Everything below — the record, the monthly means, the thirty-day chart — is the gauge's own history and is unaffected. The normal is the mean of every reading at this gauge within 3 days of this calendar date in the previous years of record — 28 readings, averaging 50.1 °F.
The last thirty days
Daily means from USGS. A gap in the line is a gap in the record.
The record at this gauge
| Month | Mean temp | Mean flow |
|---|---|---|
| Jan | 41.3 °F | — |
| Feb | 46.6 °F | — |
| Mar | 51.8 °F | — |
| Apr | 58.3 °F | — |
| May | 64.4 °F | — |
| Jun | 70.6 °F | — |
| Jul | 74.9 °F | — |
| Aug | 72.8 °F | — |
| Sep | 68.3 °F | — |
| Oct | 58.8 °F | — |
| Nov | 50.3 °F | — |
| Dec | 44.6 °F | — |
- 79.2 °FWarmest, 2025-07-27
- 32.4 °FColdest, 2025-01-23
Computed here from the last 5 years of USGS daily values at this gauge — 1,506 temperature days over 4.1 years and 0 flow days. These are not USGS-published normals, and a month with fewer than 20 days of record is left blank rather than averaged.
What this gauge predicts
This is one of the gauges this site fits an air-to-water model against, which is how the map colours water that has no gauge on it. July mean 74.03 °F; the fit explains 87% of the variance with a typical error of 1.701 °F.
The water it stands in
We hold no coldwater classification for this river, so the page makes no claim about one. The gauge is here because it stands close to water that does carry a designation.
Snapped to NHD reach French Broad River (25000400538089), 46.7 m away. That join is what lets the app paint this gauge's reading onto the reach it measures.
Other gauges near this one
- French Broad River near Fletcher, Nc 5.4 mi · USGS 03447687
- French Broad River at Haywood Rd at Asheville, Nc 6.0 mi · USGS 03451200
- Mills River near Mills River, Nc 7.0 mi · USGS 03446000
Dams near this gauge
- Lake Kenilworth Dam 6.4 mi · 44 ft
- Taylor Lake Dam 7.4 mi · 25 ft
- Moore's Dam 10.5 mi · 30 ft
A dam upstream of a gauge moves what the gauge reads. A hydro dam moves it on a release schedule this page does not know.
Access near this gauge
- Lake Powhatan 2.1 mi · walk in · Lake Powhatan
- Amboy Riverfront Park 4.9 mi · walk in · French Broad River
- Westfeldt Park 6.1 mi · boat launch · French Broad River
- Craven Street Bridge 6.3 mi · boat launch · French Broad River
- North Mills River 7.1 mi · walk in · North Fork Mills River
Fly shops nearby
- Hunter Banks Fly Fishing6.9 mi · Asheville
- Curtis Wright Outfitters13.8 mi · Weaverville
- Take A Hike Outfitters17.3 mi · Black Mountain
- Davidson River Outfitters18.6 mi · Pisgah Forest