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Alum Creek Lake

95.7% full

Capacity

100.78 hm³

Volume stored

96 hm³

Vs month average

96% of normal

Coordinates

40.186°N, 82.967°W

Last updated

2026-10-28

Current fill

95.7%
High

vs 7 days ago

-2.0 pp

losing

vs 1 year ago

N/A

7-day trend

↓

falling

Drought context

Storage vs October average

96%of normal

95.7% full on 2026-10-28, against an average of 99.2% for October across 2 years of readings (-3.5 points).

Drought Monitor at this site · 20 October 2026

Nonenot in a drought category

Alum Creek Lake's coordinates fall outside every category on the weekly U.S. Drought Monitor map. That describes local conditions — rainfall, soil moisture, streamflow — not the reservoir's storage. Ohio drought figures →

Data source: USACE CWMS — US Army Corps of Engineers — daily reservoir storage volume. Capacity is the design (normal full-pool) capacity from the US National Inventory of Dams (NID); fill % = current volume ÷ design capacity. Last reading: 2026-10-28.

Catchment Weather

Past 30 days + 14-day forecast · Open-Meteo

Satellite imagery: Esri, Maxar, Earthstar Geographics. Map: Esri, HERE, Garmin, © OpenStreetMap contributors. 40.186°N, 82.967°W · Open in Google Maps

About Alum Creek Lake

As of October 28, 2026, Alum Creek Lake is filled to 95.7% of its total capacity, holding 96.42 hm³ of water out of a maximum 100.78 hm³. At this level the reservoir is high.

Over the most recent week on record the fill level has fallen by 2.0 percentage points.

Across the readings we hold for Alum Creek Lake — 100 data points between October 29, 2021 and October 28, 2026 — the level has ranged from a low of 89.0% (November 27, 2021) to a high of 104.9% (September 21, 2026).

It is operated by USACE primarily for multiple purposes. It is at 40.186°N, 82.967°W.

Key facts

Current fill level
95.7% of total capacity
Water stored
96.42 hm³
Total capacity
100.78 hm³
7-day change
▼ 2.0 pp
Primary use
Multipurpose
Operator
USACE
Coordinates
40.186°N, 82.967°W
Last updated
October 28, 2026

Recent readings

DateFill levelVolume (hm³)
28 Oct 202695.7%96.42
27 Oct 202695.8%96.58
26 Oct 202696.1%96.86
25 Oct 202696.4%97.19
24 Oct 202696.8%97.56
23 Oct 202697.2%97.93
22 Oct 202697.5%98.26
21 Oct 202697.7%98.51
20 Oct 202698.2%98.96
19 Oct 202698.5%99.25
18 Oct 202698.8%99.58
17 Oct 202699.1%99.91

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