Rainbow River above Dunnellon (in NAVD88)
Highest listed crest 30.43 ftFlood stage 30.0 ft1 crests since 2024
The Rainbow River above Dunnellon (in NAVD88) crested above flood stage 1 time among the 1 crests the National Weather Service lists from 2024 to 2024. The highest, 30.43 ft on November 1, 2024, was minor flooding, 0.43 feet above flood stage. 1 other gauge on the Rainbow River crested above flood stage within a week of it, 1 at its own highest listed crest.
The gauge
- Highest listed crest
- 30.43 ft
- November 1, 2024; 703 cubic feet per second
- Flood stage
- 30.0 ft
- Major flooding from 32.0 ft
- Crests at major
- 0
- 1 above flood stage
- Most recent flood crest
- November 1, 2024
- 30.43 ft, minor flooding
Flood stages
The thresholds the National Weather Service uses for this gauge today, and how many listed crests reached each.
| Action stage | 29.0 | 0 | — |
| Flood stage (minor) | 30.0 | 1 | Nov 1, 2024 |
| Moderate flood stage | 31.0 | 0 | — |
| Major flood stage | 32.0 | 0 | — |
Every listed crest
1 crests from 2024 to 2024. 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.
Highest crests
| 1 | Nov 1, 2024 | 30.43 | +0.43 | Minor |
The worst floods along the Rainbow River
For this gauge's highest crests, the other gauges on the Rainbow River that crested above flood stage within a week.
November 1, 2024: 30.43 ft here, minor flooding
- Dunnellon (in NAVD88)FL · Nov 2, 2024 · 29.57 ft · Minor · its highest
Gauges on the Rainbow River
In USGS station-number order, which runs downstream within a river basin.
| Dunnellon (in NAVD88) this gauge | FL | 30.43 ft, Nov 1, 2024 | 0 |
| Dunnellon (in NAVD88) | FL | 29.57 ft, Nov 2, 2024 | 0 |
Other gauges in Marion County
| Eureka | 25.49 ft, Sep 13, 2017 | 9 |
| Moss Bluff Dam | 46.85 ft, Oct 10, 2024 | 1 |
| Conner | 40.07 ft, Sep 11, 2017 | 2 |
| Ocala | 41.31 ft, Sep 11, 2017 | 3 |
| Orange Springs | 29.32 ft, Oct 20, 1941 | 5 |
| Dunnellon (in NAVD88) | 29.57 ft, Nov 2, 2024 | 0 |
| US 41 Dunnellon (in NAVD88) | 32.20 ft, Apr 1, 1960 | 3 |
Marion County: every hazard · River floods across the country · Florida
NOAA National Water Prediction Service, gauge RABF1, 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.