Yampa River at Steamboat Springs flow today
Streamflow at USGS station 09239500, in the Yampa-White-Green basin (Division 6).
About this gauge
Yampa River at Steamboat Springs is one of the 30 stream gauges BasinMind reads for the Yampa-White-Green basin, Division 6 of Colorado's seven water divisions. It is USGS station 09239500 (40.4830, -106.8324), and the official record is on that station's page.
At Oct 4, 2026, 12:15 p.m. MT it read 57 cfs, about 113 acre-feet a day. The median flow for this date over the gauge's record is 101 cfs, so today's flow is 56% of it: below median.
On the Yampa River, the nearest gauges BasinMind reads are Yampa River below Stagecoach Reservoir upstream and Yampa River below Soda Creek at Steamboat Springs downstream.
Across Division 6, DWR lists 8 active calls; the most senior is Prestopitz Ditch Alt PT1 on Talamantes Creek, priority Apr 1, 1882 (the full list). A call governs the stretch of river it is placed on, so look for this river in the list.
One cfs is a cubic foot of water passing each second, about 448.8 gallons per minute; percent of median compares today's flow with the median for this date (cfs and acre-feet). How calls work: What is a water call?.
Main-stem gauges in the Yampa-White-Green basin
- White River below Boise Creek near Rangely · 244 cfs
- Yellow Creek near White River · 0.4 cfs
- Yampa River near Maybell · 102 cfs
- White River above Coal Creek near Meeker · 201 cfs
- North Fork White River at Buford
- South Fork White River near Budges Resort
- Yampa River above Stagecoach Reservoir · 35 cfs
More gauges on the Yampa River
- Yampa River below Stagecoach Reservoir
- Yampa River below Soda Creek at Steamboat Springs
- Yampa River above Elkhead Creek near Hayden
- Yampa River below Craig
- Yampa River at Deerlodge Park