How High Is the Little River?
The live river height at the Moscow gauge, against the floods of 2023 and 2024.
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The live river height at the Moscow gauge, against the floods of 2023 and 2024.
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.
1.3 ft
This is the river’s height at the gauge right now. Reading from 14 June at 10:45.
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.
| Stage | When |
|---|---|
| 14 ft | 1 November 2019 |
| 14 ft | 10 July 2024 |
| 11 ft | 18 December 2023 |
| 10 ft | 23 June 2024 |
| 9.9 ft | 10 July 2023 |
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.
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Reading from 14 June at 12:20. Data: NOAA National Water Prediction Service (NWPS) (water.noaa.gov, public domain). Official gauge page: water.noaa.gov.