Bayou Texar is a saltwater beach in Escambia County, Florida. Across 1,358 bacteria samples collected between 2021 and 2025 at nearby monitoring stations, it earns a Beach Safety Grade of D — Poor.
About 21% of samples at Bayou Texar exceeded the EPA Beach Action Value of 104 CFU/100 mL for Enterococcus — the threshold at which water managers typically post a swimming advisory. In practice that means the safe-swimming limit was frequently crossed here over the monitored period. Bacteria samples frequently exceed the safe-swimming threshold; swimming advisories are common here.
In the most recent full reporting year, Bayou Texar was under a swimming advisory for about 11% of its monitored beach days — a useful gauge of how often problems recur here beyond any single sample.