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Mahoning Creek Lake

19.3% full

Capacity

46.63 hm³

Volume stored

9 hm³

Vs month average

76% of normal

Coordinates

40.922°N, 79.278°W

Last updated

2026-10-28

Current fill

19.3%
Critical

vs 7 days ago

-2.7 pp

losing

vs 1 year ago

N/A

7-day trend

↓

falling

Drought context

Storage vs October average

76%of normal

19.3% full on 2026-10-28, against an average of 25.4% for October across 2 years of readings (-6.1 points).

Drought Monitor at this site · 20 October 2026

Nonenot in a drought category

Mahoning Creek Lake'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. Pennsylvania drought figures →

Data source: USACE CWMS — US Army Corps of Engineers — daily reservoir storage volume. Design capacity is unavailable for this site, so fill % is estimated against the 5-year maximum storage and may overstate fullness. 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. 40.922°N, 79.278°W · Open in Google Maps

About Mahoning Creek Lake

As of October 28, 2026, Mahoning Creek Lake is filled to 19.3% of its total capacity, holding 8.99 hm³ of water out of a maximum 46.63 hm³. At this level the reservoir is critically low.

Over the most recent week on record the fill level has fallen by 2.7 percentage points.

Across the readings we hold for Mahoning Creek Lake — 329 data points between October 29, 2021 and October 28, 2026 — the level has ranged from a low of 12.3% (January 22, 2022) to a high of 100.0% (May 9, 2022). On average the reservoir is fullest around May and at its lowest around November.

It is operated by USACE primarily for multiple purposes. It is at 40.922°N, 79.278°W.

Key facts

Current fill level
19.3% of total capacity
Water stored
8.99 hm³
Total capacity
46.63 hm³
7-day change
▼ 2.7 pp
Primary use
Multipurpose
Operator
USACE
Coordinates
40.922°N, 79.278°W
Last updated
October 28, 2026

Recent readings

DateFill levelVolume (hm³)
28 Oct 202619.3%8.99
27 Oct 202619.4%9.04
26 Oct 202619.6%9.13
25 Oct 202619.7%9.18
24 Oct 202619.7%9.18
23 Oct 202620.3%9.45
22 Oct 202621.2%9.9
21 Oct 202622.0%10.26
20 Oct 202623.8%11.09
19 Oct 202626.3%12.27
18 Oct 202628.2%13.13
17 Oct 202629.0%13.51

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