Peters Creek at Strauss Park
Highest listed crest 7.47 ftFlood stage 5.0 ft1 crests since 2025
The Peters Creek at Strauss Park crested above flood stage 1 time among the 1 crests the National Weather Service lists from 2025 to 2025. The highest, 7.47 ft on August 22, 2025, was moderate flooding, 2.47 feet above flood stage.
The gauge
- Highest listed crest
- 7.47 ft
- August 22, 2025
- Flood stage
- 5.0 ft
- Major flooding from 8.7 ft
- Crests at major
- 0
- 1 above flood stage
- Most recent flood crest
- August 22, 2025
- 7.47 ft, moderate flooding
Flood stages
The thresholds the National Weather Service uses for this gauge today, and how many listed crests reached each.
| Flood stage (minor) | 5.0 | 0 | — |
| Moderate flood stage | 7.0 | 1 | Aug 22, 2025 |
| Major flood stage | 8.7 | 0 | — |
Every listed crest
1 crests from 2025 to 2025. Filled: at or above flood stage. Hover a crest for its date and stage.
- 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 | Aug 22, 2025 | 7.47 | +2.47 | Moderate |
Other gauges in Roanoke city
| Forest Park Elementary in Roanoke | 3.24 ft, Aug 21, 2025 | 0 |
| Mudlick Creek in Roanoke | 4.30 ft, Aug 22, 2025 | 0 |
| Fishburn Park in Roanoke | 2.98 ft, Feb 15, 2025 | 0 |
| Roanoke | 23.35 ft, Nov 4, 1985 | 7 |
Roanoke city: every hazard · River floods across the country · Virginia
NOAA National Water Prediction Service, gauge RPCV2, 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.