Wolf River at Germantown, TN
River level and flood forecast · Shelby County
The river is 17.6 ft below flood stage (20.5 ft).
Forecast to hold near 2.9 ft through Sat, Oct 17, 7 AM.
Flow: 270 cubic feet per second (USGS).
The last 7 days and the forecast
NWS forecast issued Mon, Oct 12, 8:24 AM. Forecasts change as rain falls and as upstream water arrives.
Flood stages
| Major flood stage | 28 ft |
| Moderate flood stage | 25 ft |
| Flood stage | 20.5 ft |
| Action stage | 15 ft |
| Record crest (March 14, 1975) | 27.98 ft |
What floods at each level
From the National Weather Service, highest first.
- 28 ftNumerous homes are flooding and roads are impassable. Fletcher Creek is backing up causing flooding in Bartlett. Evacuations are necessary.
- 27 ftHighways 205, 196, and 194 are flooded and impassable. Several homes are flooded. Fletcher Creek is backing up. Evacuations are necessary near the Wolf River.
- 25 ftSeveral homes near the Wolf River in the vicinity of Collierville are threatened. A large area of the Agricenter International farmland is flooded and Farm Road is closed. Water is over part of Collierville-Arlington Road. W. C. Johnson and Cameron Brown Parks are flooding. School ball fields east of Houston Levee Road are underwater. Ball fields at Southwest Tennessee Community College are flooded. The southwest parking lot of Baptist East Hospital is flooding.
- 24.5 ftSports facilities on the west side of Southwest Tennessee Community College are flooded. Shelby Farms field southeast of the intersection of Walnut Grove Road and Farm Road is flooded near the hiking trail. The field north of Walnut Grove Road and west of Farm Road is flooded.
- 24 ftFields in Shelby Farms are flooded nearly to Farm Road.
- 23 ftGreenways along the Wolf River are flooded in many locations.
- 22 ftWidespread lowland flooding is occurring. Greenways along the Wolf River are flooded.
- 21 ftGreenway flooding along the Wolf River is extensive from Houston Levee Road to Interstate 40.
- 20 ftOverbank flooding has started. Greenways along the Wolf River are flooding along with the fields southof the Agricenter.
- 19 ftFields south of the Agricenter are starting to flood.
- 18 ftGreenway north of Wolf River Boulevard near Brown Park is flooded.
- 15 ftSome Greenways along the Wolf River are flooding.
Highest crests on record
- 27.98 ft — March 14, 1975
- 26.91 ft — April 29, 2011
- 25.52 ft — December 1, 2001
- 25.29 ft — April 6, 2025
- 25.12 ft — March 12, 2016
Recent crests: 25.29 ft (April 6, 2025) · 22.77 ft (February 25, 2019) · 19.46 ft (September 1, 2017) · 25.12 ft (March 12, 2016) · 15.77 ft (November 18, 2015)
Up and down the river, and nearby
Not an official source. River levels, forecasts, flood stages and impacts are from the National Weather Service (GERT1); flow from the U.S. Geological Survey. Readings are provisional. In a flood, follow your local officials and the NWS at weather.gov.