North Fork Rivanna River near Earlysville, VA Water Level Today

NWS river forecast

Forecast from the NOAA National Water Prediction Service. Issued a few times a day and only while a forecast is active. Not for navigation.

Last 30 days

About this gauge

USGS gauge 02032640 sits on the North Fork Rivanna River and reads everything draining 108 square miles of the Rivanna basin. Its datum sits 363 feet above sea level NAVD88. Daily flow has been on record here since 1994, 32 years of it.

Where this gauge sits in the drainage

No gauged site sits above this one on the mainstem, so this is the first published reading on the river. Downstream the next reading comes from Rivanna River at Palmyra, VA at 663 square miles, so what passes this gauge is about 16% of the water measured there.

Normal flows here

The North Fork Rivanna River runs a median of 69 cfs at this gauge across 32 years of record. March is the fullest month at a median 128 cfs, and September the leanest at 19 cfs. The highest daily mean on record is 11,500 cfs in 2018, and the lowest is 0.1 cfs in 2023.

Medians from the USGS daily-statistics record, 1994 to 2026. A month at 100% is running at its own long-term median.