Wolf Creek near Narrows, 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 03175500 sits on Wolf Creek and reads everything draining 223 square miles of the Middle New basin. Its datum sits 1,586 feet above sea level NAVD88. Daily flow has been on record here since 1908, 95 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 New River at Glen Lyn, VA at 3,770 square miles, so what passes this gauge is about 6% of the water measured there. It then enters Bluestone Lake near Hinton, WV, below which releases set the flow.

Normal flows here

Wolf Creek runs a median of 145 cfs at this gauge across 95 years of record. March is the fullest month at a median 443 cfs, and September the leanest at 49 cfs. The highest daily mean on record is 11,700 cfs in 2010, and the lowest is 10 cfs in 1999.

Medians from the USGS daily-statistics record, 1908 to 2026. A month at 100% is running at its own long-term median.

Flood stages and record crests

Wolf Creek reaches flood stage at this gauge at 10 feet. NWS starts watching it at 9 feet. The highest crest on record is 13.9 feet, in November 2003.

Flood categories and crest history from the NOAA National Water Prediction Service, gauge WOLV2. Stages are gage height, not depth. Not for navigation.