Lake Fork Reservoir: 90.5% full as of 2026-05-18

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 2026-05-18 90.5 400.77 579,828 548,385 606,088 24,863
Yesterday 2026-05-17 90.5 400.78 580,076 548,633 606,088 24,872
2 days ago 2026-05-16 90.6 400.81 580,822 549,379 606,088 24,899
1 week ago 2026-05-11 90.1 400.67 577,346 545,903 606,088 24,772
1 month ago 2026-04-18 88.2 400.21 566,046 534,603 606,088 24,354
3 months ago 2026-02-18 88.0 400.17 565,073 533,630 606,088 24,318
6 months ago 2025-11-18 89.3 400.47 572,410 540,967 606,088 24,591
1 year ago 2025-05-18 100.0 403.35 647,296 606,088 606,088 27,183
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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 2026-05-18 22:30 400.75 403.00 -2.25
1 hour prior 2026-05-18 21:30 400.76 403.00 -2.24
2 hours prior 2026-05-18 20:30 400.77 403.00 -2.23
6 hours prior 2026-05-18 16:30 400.76 403.00 -2.24
12 hours prior 2026-05-18 10:30 400.75 403.00 -2.25
24 hours prior 2026-05-17 22:30 400.73 403.00 -2.27
48 hours prior 2026-05-16 22:30 400.80 403.00 -2.20
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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

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