Lake Fork Reservoir: 87.2% full as of 2026-03-31

The elevation-storage rating curve used to produce the storage hydrograph is made of two segments: (1) the segment up to the conservation pool top (below the red line) is based on measured data, and (2) the segment in the flood pool (above the red line) is an extrapolation from the first segment and shouldn't be relied upon for flood storage information.

Historical Data

Date Percent Full Mean Water Level
(ft)
Reservoir Storage
(acre-ft)
Conservation Storage
(acre-ft)
Conservation Capacity
(acre-ft)
Surface Area
(acres)
Today 2026-03-31 87.2 399.97 560,227 528,784 606,088 24,147
Yesterday 2026-03-30 87.3 399.98 560,469 529,026 606,088 24,153
2 days ago 2026-03-29 87.3 399.99 560,710 529,267 606,088 24,158
1 week ago 2026-03-24 87.6 400.07 562,646 531,203 606,088 24,227
1 month ago 2026-02-28 87.5 400.04 561,920 530,477 606,088 24,200
3 months ago 2025-12-31 87.8 400.11 563,615 532,172 606,088 24,264
6 months ago 2025-09-30 93.8 401.56 599,753 568,310 606,088 25,581
1 year ago 2025-03-31 99.4 402.87 634,044 602,601 606,088 26,771
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Percent Full is based on Conservation Storage and Conservation Capacity and doesn't account for storage in flood pool.

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   Values above, including today's are averaged conditions. For near real-time instantaneous water level, see table below or the interactive map viewer.

Most Recent Instantaneous Water Level

Date/time Water Level
(ft)
Conservation Pool Elevation
(ft)
Height Above Conservation Pool
(ft)
Most recent 2026-03-31 14:30 399.95 403.00 -3.05
1 hour prior 2026-03-31 13:30 399.97 403.00 -3.03
2 hours prior 2026-03-31 12:30 399.96 403.00 -3.04
6 hours prior 2026-03-31 08:30 399.97 403.00 -3.03
12 hours prior 2026-03-31 02:30 399.97 403.00 -3.03
24 hours prior 2026-03-30 14:30 399.97 403.00 -3.03
48 hours prior 2026-03-29 14:30 399.99 403.00 -3.01
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Data is provisional and subject to revision.

Additional Information

Impoundment date 1980-01-01
Vertical datum NGVD29
Dead pool elevation 360.00 ft above NGVD29
Top of gate elevation 405.00 ft above NGVD29
Emergency spillway crest elevation 385.00 ft above NGVD29
Maximum design elevation 407.90 ft above NGVD29
Top of dam elevation 419.50 ft above NGVD29
Conservation pool elevation 403.00 ft above NGVD29
Data download (CSV) period of record, last one year, last 30 days

Elevation-Area-Capacity Curves

1980-02-01 (source: USGS)
2001-03-01 (source: TWDB) : GIS Data
2009-10-01 (source: TWDB) : GIS Data
Data Source USGS:08018800

Lake Location