How High Is the Little River?

The live river height at the Moscow gauge, against the floods of 2023 and 2024.

About these tools

The Little River runs past Stowe village and through Moscow — the stretch that went over its banks in July 2023, December 2023, and again in July 2024. This reads the live gauge at Moscow so you can see how high the river is right now.

Little River at Moscow

0.9 ft

This is the river’s height at the gauge right now. Reading from August 23 at 9:45 PM.

The National Weather Service publishes no flood-stage thresholds for this gauge, so there’s no official “flooding / not flooding” line to compare against. What this tool can show is the current height, how it’s trending, and the highest levels on record — so you can see where today sits against the floods this river has had before. It is not a flood warning.

0.9 ft

Current stage

height of the river at the gauge

Steady

Trend (past day)

latest reading vs. about a day earlier

2.5 ft

7-day high

highest stage in the past week

0.027 kcfs

Flow

thousands of cubic feet per second

Highest levels on record

Stage	When
14 ft	November 1, 2019
14 ft	July 10, 2024
11 ft	December 18, 2023
10 ft	June 23, 2024
9.9 ft	July 10, 2023

Worth knowing

Three floods in eighteen months

July 2023, December 2023, and July 2024 all put the Little River over its banks around Moscow and the village — flooding low-lying roads and the rec path, and upending the lives of people who work in Stowe but live down-valley. The list of highest levels above shows how high each of those reached.

Who to contact

Vermont Emergency Management (VT-Alert) · More information

In a flooding emergency, call 911. Sign up for VT-Alert to get official warnings, and watch the Town of Stowe for road closures. This tool shows the river's height, not an evacuation order.

Reading from August 23 at 10:57 PM. Data: NOAA National Water Prediction Service (NWPS) (water.noaa.gov, public domain). Official gauge page: water.noaa.gov.