River levels in Minnesota.
111 reporting USGS gauges in Minnesota, each compared against its own record for this calendar day rather than against a fixed threshold — which is what makes "low" mean low for that river. Right now, 55 running below normal.
Gauges across Minnesota.
One dot per reporting gauge, coloured by how today’s flow ranks against that gauge’s own record for this date.
- Much below normal21
- Below normal34
- Normal45
- Above normal6
- No baseline5
Furthest from normal in Minnesota.
Recorded September 4, 2026. Each gauge is ranked against its own history for this calendar day, so "below normal" means low for that river — not low compared to some other river.
| Gauge | Flow | Median | Condition |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mississippi River Below L&D 2 At Hastings, Mn | 4,250 ft³/s | 9,900 ft³/s | Much below normal |
| Rainy River At Manitou Rapids, Mn | 4,190 ft³/s | 8,935 ft³/s | Much below normal |
| St. Croix River At Stillwater, Mn | 1,790 ft³/s | 3,940 ft³/s | Much below normal |
| Mississippi River At St. Cloud, Mn | 1,350 ft³/s | 3,620 ft³/s | Much below normal |
| Mississippi River Near Royalton, Mn | 935 ft³/s | 3,155 ft³/s | Much below normal |
| Mississippi River At Brainerd, Mn | 482 ft³/s | 1,970 ft³/s | Much below normal |
| Mississippi River At Aitkin, Mn | 397 ft³/s | 1,680 ft³/s | Much below normal |
| Basswood River Near Winton, Mn | 255 ft³/s | 611 ft³/s | Much below normal |
| Mississippi River At Grand Rapids, Mn | 243 ft³/s | 1,220 ft³/s | Much below normal |
| St. Louis River At Scanlon, Mn | 242 ft³/s | 1,065 ft³/s | Much below normal |
| Red River Of The North At Enloe, ND | 174 ft³/s | 752 ft³/s | Much below normal |
| Crow Wing River At Nimrod, Mn | 129 ft³/s | 346 ft³/s | Much below normal |
Showing 12 of 111 gauges in Minnesota. The national map is searchable by river and gauge name.
What "below normal" actually means.
The one thing worth understanding before drawing a conclusion from this map.
Every gauge is ranked against its own record for this calendar day. A river that normally runs 40 cubic feet per second in August is "much below normal" at 12; one that normally runs 40,000 is not. That is why a single national colour scale works at all — the comparison is always local, and always seasonal. Gauges with fewer than ten years of record for the date are shown unclassified rather than assumed normal.
This is a daily mean read against a daily percentile, refreshed twice a day. It cannot represent a fast-rising river. For flood forecasts and warnings in Minnesota, use NOAA's National Water Prediction Service and your local National Weather Service office; for life-safety information, follow your local emergency management agency.
See Minnesota on the live map.
This page is a still frame. The national map is interactive — pan, zoom, filter, and read every record behind what you see here.
Every reporting USGS stream gauge in the country, coloured by how today’s flow ranks against that gauge’s own record for this calendar day.
More on Minnesota.
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Watershed Explorer
Click any point in the country and read what six federal datasets say about it — flow, drought, fire, flood forecast, satellite cyanobacteria screening and Clean Water Act impairment — each one labelled with what it is actually a fact about.
Wildfire & Smoke Map — Minnesota
Official NIFC fire perimeters and incident points under NOAA’s HRRR-Smoke near-surface forecast, filterable by size, state, and containment.
U.S. Drought Map — Minnesota
The U.S. Drought Monitor — the country’s official weekly drought assessment — drawn across five severity categories from D0 to D4.
Flood Outlook Map — Minnesota
NOAA’s river forecast centres call the next few days at every forecast gauge in the country, on the National Weather Service’s own flood categories — action, minor, moderate and major.
Impaired Waters Map — Minnesota
Every subwatershed in the country against the states’ own Clean Water Act assessments — what is impaired, what is still on the 303(d) list, what is causing it, and how much of the country nobody has assessed at all.
Cyanobacteria Bloom Map — Minnesota
NASA and EPA’s satellites read a pigment index over roughly 2,300 U.S. lakes large enough to resolve at 300 m. A pre-screening indicator, not a health assessment, and never a substitute for your state’s advisory.
Critical Habitat & Protected Waters Map — Minnesota
Every river and stream the federal government has designated as ESA critical habitat, the listed species each unit is designated for, and who manages the protected land around it.
River levels by state.
Every state, with the number of USGS gauges reporting there. The national map covers all of them at once.
- Alabama141 gauges
- Alaska90 gauges
- Arizona186 gauges
- Arkansas113 gauges
- California433 gauges
- Colorado324 gauges
- Connecticut69 gauges
- Delaware17 gauges
- District of Columbia3 gauges
- Florida376 gauges
- Georgia284 gauges
- Hawaii79 gauges
- Idaho198 gauges
- Illinois186 gauges
- Indiana185 gauges
- Iowa135 gauges
- Kansas178 gauges
- Kentucky149 gauges
- Louisiana55 gauges
- Maine64 gauges
- Maryland128 gauges
- Massachusetts108 gauges
- Michigan201 gauges
- Minnesota111 gauges
- Mississippi72 gauges
- Missouri229 gauges
- Montana224 gauges
- Nebraska114 gauges
- Nevada145 gauges
- New Hampshire53 gauges
- New Jersey117 gauges
- New Mexico153 gauges
- New York299 gauges
- North Carolina233 gauges
- North Dakota103 gauges
- Ohio215 gauges
- Oklahoma136 gauges
- Oregon240 gauges
- Pennsylvania296 gauges
- Puerto Rico99 gauges
- Rhode Island34 gauges
- South Carolina123 gauges
- South Dakota106 gauges
- Tennessee110 gauges
- Texas518 gauges
- Utah173 gauges
- Vermont51 gauges
- Virginia198 gauges
- Washington236 gauges
- West Virginia102 gauges
- Wisconsin182 gauges
- Wyoming105 gauges
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