Reservoir · Nevada · United States · BOR RISE
Lake Mead
Lake Mead Hoover Dam and Powerplant
24.3% full
Capacity
34,852.03 hm³
Volume stored
8453 hm³
Vs month average
85% of normal
Coordinates
36.016°N, 114.737°W
Last updated
2026-10-26
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Current fill
24.3%vs 7 days ago
+0.3 ppgaining
vs 1 year ago
-4.9 ppyear-over-year
7-day trend
→stable
Drought context
Storage vs October average
85%of normal
24.3% full on 2026-10-26, against an average of 28.5% for October across 6 years of readings (-4.2 points).
Drought Monitor at this site · 20 October 2026
D1moderate drought
The ground at Lake Mead'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. Nevada 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. 36.016°N, 114.737°W · Open in Google Maps
About Lake Mead
As of October 26, 2026, Lake Mead is filled to 24.3% of its total capacity, holding 8,453 hm³ of water out of a maximum 34,852 hm³. At this level the reservoir is low.
Over the most recent week on record the fill level has held broadly steady (+0.3 pp), and it is 4.9 points below its level on the same date a year earlier.
Across the readings we hold for Lake Mead — 1824 data points between October 29, 2021 and October 26, 2026 — the level has ranged from a low of 24.0% (October 17, 2026) to a high of 34.4% (February 24, 2024). On average the reservoir is fullest around February and at its lowest around July.
It is operated by BOR primarily for multiple purposes. It is at 36.016°N, 114.737°W.
Key facts
- Current fill level
- 24.3% of total capacity
- Water stored
- 8,453 hm³
- Total capacity
- 34,852 hm³
- 7-day change
- ▲ 0.3 pp
- Year-on-year
- ▼ 4.9 pp
- Primary use
- Multipurpose
- Operator
- BOR
- Coordinates
- 36.016°N, 114.737°W
- Last updated
- October 26, 2026
Recent readings
| Date | Fill level | Volume (hm³) |
|---|---|---|
| 26 Oct 2026 | 24.3% | 8,453 |
| 25 Oct 2026 | 24.2% | 8,440 |
| 24 Oct 2026 | 24.1% | 8,413 |
| 23 Oct 2026 | 24.0% | 8,372 |
| 22 Oct 2026 | 24.0% | 8,367 |
| 21 Oct 2026 | 24.0% | 8,370 |
| 20 Oct 2026 | 24.0% | 8,369 |
| 19 Oct 2026 | 24.0% | 8,369 |
| 18 Oct 2026 | 24.0% | 8,374 |
| 17 Oct 2026 | 24.0% | 8,380 |
| 16 Oct 2026 | 24.1% | 8,390 |
| 15 Oct 2026 | 24.1% | 8,398 |