Reservoir · Colorado · United States · BOR RISE
Fruitgrowers Reservoir
Fruitgrowers Reservoir and Dam
4.8% full
Capacity
5.6 hm³
Volume stored
0 hm³
Vs month average
192% of normal
Coordinates
38.827°N, 107.954°W
Last updated
2026-10-26
Current fill
4.8%vs 7 days ago
+2.1 ppgaining
vs 1 year ago
-0.6 ppyear-over-year
7-day trend
↑rising
Drought context
Storage vs October average
192%of normal
4.8% full on 2026-10-26, against an average of 2.5% for October across 6 years of readings (+2.3 points).
Drought Monitor at this site · 20 October 2026
D1moderate drought
The ground at Fruitgrowers Reservoir's coordinates falls inside the D1 area of the weekly U.S. Drought Monitor map. That describes local conditions — rainfall, soil moisture, streamflow — not the reservoir's storage. Colorado drought figures →
Data source: BOR RISE — US Bureau of Reclamation — 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: 2026-10-26.
Catchment Weather
Past 30 days + 14-day forecast · Open-Meteo
Satellite imagery: Esri, Maxar, Earthstar Geographics. Map: Esri, HERE, Garmin, © OpenStreetMap contributors. 38.827°N, 107.954°W · Open in Google Maps
About Fruitgrowers Reservoir
As of October 26, 2026, Fruitgrowers Reservoir is filled to 4.8% of its total capacity, holding 0.27 hm³ of water out of a maximum 5.6 hm³. At this level the reservoir is critically low.
Over the most recent week on record the fill level has risen by 2.1 percentage points, and it sits close to where it was a year earlier.
Across the readings we hold for Fruitgrowers Reservoir — 1819 data points between October 29, 2021 and October 26, 2026 — the level has ranged from a low of 0.0% (October 7, 2023) to a high of 80.7% (May 23, 2023). On average the reservoir is fullest around April and at its lowest around October.
It is operated by BOR primarily for multiple purposes. It is at 38.827°N, 107.954°W.
Key facts
- Current fill level
- 4.8% of total capacity
- Water stored
- 0.27 hm³
- Total capacity
- 5.6 hm³
- 7-day change
- ▲ 2.1 pp
- Year-on-year
- ▼ 0.6 pp
- Primary use
- Multipurpose
- Operator
- BOR
- Coordinates
- 38.827°N, 107.954°W
- Last updated
- October 26, 2026
Recent readings
| Date | Fill level | Volume (hm³) |
|---|---|---|
| 26 Oct 2026 | 4.8% | 0.27 |
| 25 Oct 2026 | 4.6% | 0.26 |
| 24 Oct 2026 | 4.6% | 0.26 |
| 23 Oct 2026 | 4.3% | 0.24 |
| 22 Oct 2026 | 3.6% | 0.2 |
| 21 Oct 2026 | 2.9% | 0.16 |
| 20 Oct 2026 | 2.7% | 0.15 |
| 19 Oct 2026 | 2.7% | 0.15 |
| 18 Oct 2026 | 2.7% | 0.15 |
| 17 Oct 2026 | 2.5% | 0.14 |
| 16 Oct 2026 | 2.5% | 0.14 |
| 15 Oct 2026 | 2.5% | 0.14 |