Reservoir · North Dakota · United States · USACE CWMS
Lake Darling Dam
97.1% full
Capacity
134.32 hm³
Volume stored
130 hm³
Vs month average
102% of normal
Coordinates
48.458°N, 101.584°W
Last updated
2026-10-13
Current fill
97.1%vs 7 days ago
-0.2%losing
vs 1 year ago
+2.9%year-over-year
7-day trend
→stable
Drought context
Storage vs October average
102%of normal
97.1% full on 2026-10-13, against an average of 95.0% for October across 5 years of readings (+2.1 points).
Drought Monitor at this site · 6 October 2026
Nonenot in a drought category
Lake Darling Dam'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. North Dakota 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: 2026-10-13.
Catchment Weather
Past 30 days + 14-day forecast · Open-Meteo
Satellite imagery: Esri, Maxar, Earthstar Geographics. Map: Esri, HERE, Garmin, © OpenStreetMap contributors. 48.458, -101.584 · Open in Google Maps
About Lake Darling Dam
As of October 13, 2026, Lake Darling Dam is filled to 97.1% of its total capacity, holding roughly 130 hm³ of water out of a maximum 134 hm³. At this level the reservoir is high.
Over the most recent week on record the fill level has held broadly steady (-0.2 pts), and it is 2.9 points above its level on the same date a year earlier.
Across the readings we hold for Lake Darling Dam — 1358 data points between August 1, 2022 and October 13, 2026 — the level has ranged from a low of 2.8% (January 20, 2025) to a high of 105.0% (February 18, 2024). On average the reservoir is fullest around July and at its lowest around January.
It is operated by USACE primarily for multiple purposes. It lies within the North Dakota basin at 48.458°N, 101.584°W.
Key facts
- Current fill level
- 97.1%
- Water stored
- 130 hm³
- Total capacity
- 134 hm³
- 7-day change
- ▼ 0.2 pts
- Year-on-year
- ▲ 2.9 pts
- Primary use
- Multipurpose
- River basin
- North Dakota
- Operator
- USACE
- Coordinates
- 48.458°N, 101.584°W
- Last updated
- October 13, 2026
Recent readings
| Date | Fill level | Volume (hm³) |
|---|---|---|
| 13 Oct 2026 | 97.1% | 130 |
| 12 Oct 2026 | 97.5% | 131 |
| 11 Oct 2026 | 97.0% | 130 |
| 10 Oct 2026 | 97.8% | 131 |
| 9 Oct 2026 | 95.6% | 128 |
| 8 Oct 2026 | 96.1% | 129 |
| 7 Oct 2026 | 97.6% | 131 |
| 6 Oct 2026 | 97.3% | 131 |
| 5 Oct 2026 | 95.5% | 128 |
| 4 Oct 2026 | 96.9% | 130 |
| 3 Oct 2026 | 99.2% | 133 |
| 2 Oct 2026 | 95.2% | 128 |