Yellow River near Snellville
Highest listed crest 23.75 ftFlood stage 23.0 ft8 crests since 1956
The Yellow River near Snellville crested above flood stage 1 time among the 8 crests the National Weather Service lists from 1956 to 2024. The highest, 23.75 ft on September 27, 2024, was minor flooding, 0.75 feet above flood stage. 4 other gauges on the Yellow River crested above flood stage within a week of it.
The gauge
- Highest listed crest
- 23.75 ft
- September 27, 2024; 9,166 cubic feet per second
- Flood stage
- 23.0 ft
- Major flooding from 33.0 ft
- Crests at major
- 0
- 1 above flood stage
- Most recent flood crest
- September 27, 2024
- 23.75 ft, minor flooding
Flood stages
The thresholds the National Weather Service uses for this gauge today, and how many listed crests reached each.
| Action stage | 17.0 | 3 | Apr 20, 2019 |
| Flood stage (minor) | 23.0 | 1 | Sep 27, 2024 |
| Moderate flood stage | 30.0 | 0 | — |
| Major flood stage | 33.0 | 0 | — |
Every listed crest
8 crests from 1956 to 2024. Filled: at or above flood stage. Hover a crest for its date and stage.
Crests at or above flood stage, by decade
- These are the crests the local National Weather Service office lists for the gauge: the highest on record and recent crests. Lesser floods between them may be missing, so counts by decade are a floor.
- Categories use today's flood stages. Levees, dams and channel changes since a crest can make old and new stages not directly comparable.
Highest crests
| 1 | Sep 27, 2024 | 23.75 | +0.75 | Minor |
| 2 | Dec 29, 2018 | 20.67 | −2.33 | Action |
| 3 | Mar 17, 1990 | 19.67 | −3.33 | Action |
| 4 | Apr 20, 2019 | 18.84 | −4.16 | Action |
| 5 | May 7, 1956 | 16.77 | −6.23 | Below flood stage |
| 6 | Dec 9, 2018 | 15.49 | −7.51 | Below flood stage |
| 7 | Nov 13, 2018 | 15.09 | −7.91 | Below flood stage |
| 8 | Feb 20, 2019 | 13.31 | −9.69 | Below flood stage |
The worst floods along the Yellow River
For this gauge's highest crests, the other gauges on the Yellow River that crested above flood stage within a week.
September 27, 2024: 23.75 ft here, minor flooding
- Pleasant Hill Road near LithoniaGA · Sep 27, 2024 · 18.05 ft · Moderate
- Gees Mill Road near MilsteadGA · Sep 28, 2024 · 16.34 ft · Moderate
- Rocky Plains Road near Rocky PlainsGA · Sep 29, 2024 · 20.92 ft · Minor
- GA 124 near LithoniaGA · Sep 28, 2024 · 17.83 ft · Minor
Gauges on the Yellow River
In USGS station-number order, which runs downstream within a river basin.
| Snellville this gauge | GA | 23.75 ft, Sep 27, 2024 | 0 |
| GA 124 near Lithonia | GA | 27.47 ft, Sep 21, 2009 | 1 |
| Pleasant Hill Road near Lithonia | GA | 25.54 ft, Sep 22, 2009 | 1 |
| Gees Mill Road near Milstead | GA | 22.54 ft, Sep 22, 2009 | 1 |
| Rocky Plains Road near Rocky Plains | GA | 22.09 ft, Dec 26, 2015 | 0 |
Other gauges in Gwinnett County
| New Hope Road near Grayson | 14.93 ft, Jun 17, 2003 | 0 |
| Fence Road near Dacula | 8.56 ft, Sep 21, 2009 | 0 |
| Lenora Road near Snellville | 12.74 ft, Apr 19, 2019 | 0 |
| Beaver Road near Loganville | 9.69 ft, Dec 24, 2015 | 0 |
| Norcross | 14.59 ft, Sep 21, 2009 | 0 |
| Suwanee Dam Road near Suwanee | 13.04 ft, May 19, 2013 | 0 |
| Lee Road near Snellville | 10.91 ft, Jul 7, 2005 | 0 |
| Graves Road near Norcross | 12.93 ft, Sep 21, 2009 | 0 |
| Patterson Road near Lawrenceville | 16.69 ft, Sep 21, 2009 | 0 |
| Suwanee Dam Road near Buford | 10.45 ft, May 19, 2013 | 0 |
| Paper Mill Rd near Lawrenceville | 13.12 ft, Sep 21, 2009 | 0 |
| Suwanee | 14.30 ft, Sep 21, 2009 | 1 |
| Club Drive near Lilburn | 15.90 ft, Sep 21, 2009 | 0 |
| Bill Cheek Road near Auburn | 7.18 ft, Sep 21, 2002 | 0 |
Gwinnett County: every hazard · River floods across the country · Georgia
NOAA National Water Prediction Service, gauge YESG1, retrieved October 30, 2026. Stages in feet on the gauge's own datum, not elevation. Crests are as the National Weather Service lists them; preliminary values may be revised.