Reservoir · Oklahoma · United States · USGS NWIS
Grand Lake o' the Cherokees
80.4% full
Capacity
2,010.58 hm³
Volume stored
1616 hm³
Vs month average
100% of normal
Coordinates
36.469°N, 95.041°W
Last updated
2026-10-14
Current fill
80.4%vs 7 days ago
+0.1%gaining
vs 1 year ago
-0.2%year-over-year
7-day trend
→stable
Drought context
Storage vs October average
100%of normal
80.4% full on 2026-10-14, against an average of 80.6% for October across 5 years of readings (-0.2 points).
Drought Monitor at this site · 13 October 2026
D3extreme drought
The ground at Grand Lake o' the Cherokees's coordinates falls inside the D3 area of the weekly U.S. Drought Monitor map. That describes local conditions — rainfall, soil moisture, streamflow — not the reservoir's storage. Oklahoma drought figures →
Data source: USGS National Water Information System (NWIS) — 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: 2026-10-14.
Catchment Weather
Past 30 days + 14-day forecast · Open-Meteo
Satellite imagery: Esri, Maxar, Earthstar Geographics. Map: Esri, HERE, Garmin, © OpenStreetMap contributors. 36.469, -95.041 · Open in Google Maps
About Grand Lake o' the Cherokees
As of October 14, 2026, Grand Lake o' the Cherokees is filled to 80.4% of its total capacity, holding roughly 1,616 hm³ of water out of a maximum 2,011 hm³. At this level the reservoir is high.
Over the most recent week on record the fill level has held broadly steady (+0.1 pts), and it sits close to where it was a year earlier.
Across the readings we hold for Grand Lake o' the Cherokees — 1461 data points between October 15, 2022 and October 14, 2026 — the level has ranged from a low of 79.1% (February 21, 2025) to a high of 105.0% (June 8, 2025). On average the reservoir is fullest around June and at its lowest around October.
It is operated by USGS primarily for multiple purposes. It lies within the Oklahoma basin at 36.469°N, 95.041°W.
Key facts
- Current fill level
- 80.4%
- Water stored
- 1,616 hm³
- Total capacity
- 2,011 hm³
- 7-day change
- ▲ 0.1 pts
- Year-on-year
- ▼ 0.2 pts
- Primary use
- Multipurpose
- River basin
- Oklahoma
- Operator
- USGS
- Coordinates
- 36.469°N, 95.041°W
- Last updated
- October 14, 2026
Recent readings
| Date | Fill level | Volume (hm³) |
|---|---|---|
| 14 Oct 2026 | 80.4% | 1,616 |
| 13 Oct 2026 | 80.1% | 1,610 |
| 12 Oct 2026 | 80.1% | 1,610 |
| 11 Oct 2026 | 80.2% | 1,612 |
| 10 Oct 2026 | 80.3% | 1,615 |
| 9 Oct 2026 | 80.6% | 1,620 |
| 8 Oct 2026 | 80.4% | 1,617 |
| 7 Oct 2026 | 80.3% | 1,615 |
| 6 Oct 2026 | 80.3% | 1,615 |
| 5 Oct 2026 | 80.2% | 1,612 |
| 4 Oct 2026 | 80.2% | 1,613 |
| 3 Oct 2026 | 80.5% | 1,618 |