Reservoir · Ohio · United States · USACE CWMS
Lake Milton
82.6% full
Capacity
26.64 hm³
Volume stored
22 hm³
Vs month average
86% of normal
Coordinates
41.127°N, 80.978°W
Last updated
2026-10-28
Current fill
82.6%vs 7 days ago
-10.9 pplosing
vs 1 year ago
N/A7-day trend
↓falling
Drought context
Storage vs October average
86%of normal
82.6% full on 2026-10-28, against an average of 95.5% for October across 2 years of readings (-12.9 points).
Drought Monitor at this site · 20 October 2026
Nonenot in a drought category
Lake Milton'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. Ohio 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: 2026-10-28.
Catchment Weather
Past 30 days + 14-day forecast · Open-Meteo
Satellite imagery: Esri, Maxar, Earthstar Geographics. Map: Esri, HERE, Garmin, © OpenStreetMap contributors. 41.127°N, 80.978°W · Open in Google Maps
About Lake Milton
As of October 28, 2026, Lake Milton is filled to 82.6% of its total capacity, holding 22.01 hm³ of water out of a maximum 26.64 hm³. At this level the reservoir is high.
Over the most recent week on record the fill level has fallen by 10.9 percentage points.
Across the readings we hold for Lake Milton — 319 data points between October 29, 2021 and October 28, 2026 — the level has ranged from a low of 40.4% (March 6, 2022) to a high of 103.6% (July 5, 2026). On average the reservoir is fullest around June and at its lowest around December.
It is operated by USACE primarily for multiple purposes. It is at 41.127°N, 80.978°W.
Key facts
- Current fill level
- 82.6% of total capacity
- Water stored
- 22.01 hm³
- Total capacity
- 26.64 hm³
- 7-day change
- ▼ 10.9 pp
- Primary use
- Multipurpose
- Operator
- USACE
- Coordinates
- 41.127°N, 80.978°W
- Last updated
- October 28, 2026
Recent readings
| Date | Fill level | Volume (hm³) |
|---|---|---|
| 28 Oct 2026 | 82.6% | 22.01 |
| 27 Oct 2026 | 83.6% | 22.26 |
| 26 Oct 2026 | 85.4% | 22.75 |
| 25 Oct 2026 | 87.2% | 23.23 |
| 24 Oct 2026 | 89.1% | 23.73 |
| 23 Oct 2026 | 91.0% | 24.23 |
| 22 Oct 2026 | 92.4% | 24.61 |
| 21 Oct 2026 | 93.5% | 24.9 |
| 20 Oct 2026 | 94.6% | 25.2 |
| 19 Oct 2026 | 95.9% | 25.54 |
| 18 Oct 2026 | 97.2% | 25.89 |
| 17 Oct 2026 | 98.5% | 26.25 |