Reservoir · California · United States · CDEC
LAKE ALMANOR
76.9% full
Capacity
1,406.17 hm³
Volume stored
1082 hm³
Vs month average
106% of normal
Coordinates
40.218°N, 121.173°W
Last updated
2026-11-01
Current fill
76.9%vs 7 days ago
-1.2 pplosing
vs 1 year ago
+0.9 ppyear-over-year
7-day trend
↓falling
Drought context
Storage vs November average
106%of normal
76.9% full on 2026-11-01, against an average of 72.6% for November across 6 years of readings (+4.3 points).
Drought Monitor at this site · 27 October 2026
D0abnormally dry
The ground at LAKE ALMANOR's coordinates falls inside the D0 area of the weekly U.S. Drought Monitor map. That describes local conditions — rainfall, soil moisture, streamflow — not the reservoir's storage. California drought figures →
Data source: CDEC — California Dept of Water Resources — 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: 2026-11-01.
Catchment Weather
Past 30 days + 14-day forecast · Open-Meteo
Satellite imagery: Esri, Maxar, Earthstar Geographics. Map: Esri, HERE, Garmin, © OpenStreetMap contributors. 40.218°N, 121.173°W · Open in Google Maps
About LAKE ALMANOR
As of November 1, 2026, LAKE ALMANOR is filled to 76.9% of its total capacity, holding 1,082 hm³ of water out of a maximum 1,406 hm³. At this level the reservoir is within its normal operating range.
Over the most recent week on record the fill level has fallen by 1.2 percentage points, and it sits close to where it was a year earlier.
Across the readings we hold for LAKE ALMANOR — 1823 data points between November 3, 2021 and November 1, 2026 — the level has ranged from a low of 60.5% (October 13, 2022) to a high of 98.6% (May 26, 2024). On average the reservoir is fullest around June and at its lowest around November.
It is operated by CDEC primarily for multiple purposes. It is at 40.218°N, 121.173°W.
Key facts
- Current fill level
- 76.9% of total capacity
- Water stored
- 1,082 hm³
- Total capacity
- 1,406 hm³
- 7-day change
- ▼ 1.2 pp
- Year-on-year
- ▲ 0.9 pp
- Primary use
- Multipurpose
- Operator
- CDEC
- Coordinates
- 40.218°N, 121.173°W
- Last updated
- November 1, 2026
Recent readings
| Date | Fill level | Volume (hm³) |
|---|---|---|
| 1 Nov 2026 | 76.9% | 1,082 |
| 31 Oct 2026 | 77.0% | 1,083 |
| 30 Oct 2026 | 77.2% | 1,085 |
| 29 Oct 2026 | 77.4% | 1,088 |
| 28 Oct 2026 | 77.6% | 1,092 |
| 27 Oct 2026 | 77.8% | 1,094 |
| 26 Oct 2026 | 78.0% | 1,097 |
| 25 Oct 2026 | 78.1% | 1,098 |
| 24 Oct 2026 | 78.0% | 1,097 |
| 23 Oct 2026 | 78.0% | 1,097 |
| 22 Oct 2026 | 77.9% | 1,096 |
| 21 Oct 2026 | 77.9% | 1,095 |