Reservoir · Mississippi · United States · USACE CWMS
Okatibbee Lake
66.0% full
Capacity
57.4 hm³
Volume stored
38 hm³
Vs month average
93% of normal
Coordinates
32.475°N, 88.797°W
Last updated
2026-10-28
Current fill
66.0%vs 7 days ago
-1.4 pplosing
vs 1 year ago
N/A7-day trend
↓falling
Drought context
Storage vs October average
93%of normal
66.0% full on 2026-10-28, against an average of 70.8% for October across 2 years of readings (-4.8 points).
Drought Monitor at this site · 20 October 2026
D0abnormally dry
The ground at Okatibbee Lake'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. Mississippi 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. 32.475°N, 88.797°W · Open in Google Maps
About Okatibbee Lake
As of October 28, 2026, Okatibbee Lake is filled to 66.0% of its total capacity, holding 37.87 hm³ of water out of a maximum 57.4 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 1.4 percentage points.
Across the readings we hold for Okatibbee Lake — 321 data points between October 29, 2021 and October 28, 2026 — the level has ranged from a low of 50.5% (February 1, 2022) to a high of 103.4% (July 4, 2026). On average the reservoir is fullest around July and at its lowest around February.
It is operated by USACE primarily for multiple purposes. It is at 32.475°N, 88.797°W.
Key facts
- Current fill level
- 66.0% of total capacity
- Water stored
- 37.87 hm³
- Total capacity
- 57.4 hm³
- 7-day change
- ▼ 1.4 pp
- Primary use
- Multipurpose
- Operator
- USACE
- Coordinates
- 32.475°N, 88.797°W
- Last updated
- October 28, 2026
Recent readings
| Date | Fill level | Volume (hm³) |
|---|---|---|
| 28 Oct 2026 | 66.0% | 37.87 |
| 27 Oct 2026 | 66.0% | 37.91 |
| 26 Oct 2026 | 66.2% | 38.01 |
| 25 Oct 2026 | 66.4% | 38.14 |
| 24 Oct 2026 | 66.7% | 38.28 |
| 23 Oct 2026 | 66.9% | 38.42 |
| 22 Oct 2026 | 67.2% | 38.56 |
| 21 Oct 2026 | 67.4% | 38.7 |
| 20 Oct 2026 | 67.7% | 38.84 |
| 19 Oct 2026 | 67.9% | 38.97 |
| 18 Oct 2026 | 68.2% | 39.16 |
| 17 Oct 2026 | 68.6% | 39.39 |