Blacktail Creek at Butte
Highest listed crest 5.28 ftFlood stage 4.3 ft8 crests since 1994
The Blacktail Creek at Butte crested above flood stage 5 times among the 8 crests the National Weather Service lists from 1994 to 2017. The highest, 5.28 ft on February 19, 1995, was minor flooding, 0.98 feet above flood stage.
The gauge
- Highest listed crest
- 5.28 ft
- February 19, 1995; 303 cubic feet per second
- Flood stage
- 4.3 ft
- No major stage set
- Crests at major
- 0
- 5 above flood stage
- Most recent flood crest
- June 9, 2011
- 4.30 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 | 4.0 | 2 | Jul 30, 1998 |
| Flood stage (minor) | 4.3 | 5 | Jun 9, 2011 |
Every listed crest
8 crests from 1994 to 2017. Filled: at or above flood stage. Hover a crest for its date and stage.
Crests at or above flood stage, by decade
- 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 | Feb 19, 1995 | 5.28 | +0.98 | Minor |
| 2 | Jul 6, 1994 | 4.64 | +0.34 | Minor |
| 3 | Mar 13, 2003 | 4.54 | +0.24 | Minor |
| 4 | Feb 8, 1996 | 4.31 | +0.01 | Minor |
| 5 | Jun 9, 2011 | 4.30 | 0.00 | Minor |
| 6 | Mar 20, 1997 | 4.20 | −0.10 | Action |
| 7 | Jul 30, 1998 | 4.16 | −0.14 | Action |
| 8 | Jun 12, 2017 | 3.16 | −1.14 | Below flood stage |
Silver Bow County: every hazard · River floods across the country · Montana
NOAA National Water Prediction Service, gauge BKTM8, 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.