Middle Fork Feather River near Portola
Highest listed crest 4,854.42 ftFlood stage 4,852.5 ft1 crests since 2023
The Middle Fork Feather River near Portola crested above flood stage 1 time among the 1 crests the National Weather Service lists from 2023 to 2023. The highest, 4,854.42 ft on March 15, 2023, was moderate flooding, 1.92 feet above flood stage.
The gauge
- Highest listed crest
- 4,854.42 ft
- March 15, 2023; 8,285 cubic feet per second
- Flood stage
- 4,852.5 ft
- Major flooding from 4,855.5 ft
- Crests at major
- 0
- 1 above flood stage
- Most recent flood crest
- March 15, 2023
- 4,854.42 ft, moderate flooding
Flood stages
The thresholds the National Weather Service uses for this gauge today, and how many listed crests reached each.
| Action stage | 4,851.0 | 0 | — |
| Flood stage (minor) | 4,852.5 | 0 | — |
| Moderate flood stage | 4,853.5 | 1 | Mar 15, 2023 |
| Major flood stage | 4,855.5 | 0 | — |
Every listed crest
1 crests from 2023 to 2023. Filled: at or above flood stage. Hover a crest for its date and stage.
- These are the crests the local National Weather Service office lists for the gauge: the highest on record and recent crests. Lesser floods between them may be missing, so counts by decade are a floor.
- Categories use today's flood stages. Levees, dams and channel changes since a crest can make old and new stages not directly comparable.
- 12 crests measured on an earlier gauge datum are left out: 4,854.11 ft on Jan 21, 1969; 4,852.65 ft on Jan 25, 1970; 4,853.58 ft on Mar 27, 1971; 4,851.73 ft on Mar 31, 1974; 4,851.31 ft on Mar 27, 1975; 4,851.30 ft on Jan 17, 1978; and more.
Highest crests
| 1 | Mar 15, 2023 | 4,854.42 | +1.92 | Moderate |
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NOAA National Water Prediction Service, gauge MFTC1, retrieved October 30, 2026. Stages in feet on the gauge's own datum, not elevation. Crests are as the National Weather Service lists them; preliminary values may be revised.