Reservoir · North Dakota · United States · USACE CWMS
Pipestem Dam & Reservoir
28.0% full
Capacity
43.83 hm³
Volume stored
12 hm³
Vs month average
128% of normal
Coordinates
46.963°N, 98.752°W
Last updated
2026-10-02
Current fill
28.0%vs 7 days ago
Stale7-day trend
StaleDrought context
Storage vs October average
128%of normal
28.0% full on 2026-10-02, against an average of 21.8% for October across 2 years of readings (+6.2 points).
Drought Monitor at this site · 20 October 2026
D1moderate drought
The ground at Pipestem Dam & Reservoir'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. 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: 2026-10-02.
Catchment Weather
Past 30 days + 14-day forecast · Open-Meteo
Satellite imagery: Esri, Maxar, Earthstar Geographics. Map: Esri, HERE, Garmin, © OpenStreetMap contributors. 46.963°N, 98.752°W · Open in Google Maps
About Pipestem Dam & Reservoir
As of October 2, 2026, Pipestem Dam & Reservoir is filled to 28.0% of its total capacity, holding 12.26 hm³ of water out of a maximum 43.83 hm³. The reading is past the freshness window, so it is shown as stale.
The 7-day change is not shown, because the latest reading is past the freshness window.
Across the readings we hold for Pipestem Dam & Reservoir — 328 data points between October 3, 2021 and October 2, 2026 — the level has ranged from a low of 20.7% (October 5, 2021) to a high of 98.7% (April 29, 2022). On average the reservoir is fullest around April and at its lowest around January.
It is operated by USACE primarily for multiple purposes. It is at 46.963°N, 98.752°W.
Key facts
- Current fill level
- 28.0% of total capacity
- Water stored
- 12.26 hm³
- Total capacity
- 43.83 hm³
- 7-day change
- Stale
- Primary use
- Multipurpose
- Operator
- USACE
- Coordinates
- 46.963°N, 98.752°W
- Last updated
- October 2, 2026
Recent readings
| Date | Fill level | Volume (hm³) |
|---|---|---|
| 2 Oct 2026 | 28.0% | 12.26 |
| 1 Oct 2026 | 27.8% | 12.19 |
| 30 Sep 2026 | 27.3% | 11.95 |
| 29 Sep 2026 | 26.6% | 11.68 |
| 28 Sep 2026 | 25.9% | 11.35 |
| 27 Sep 2026 | 25.9% | 11.35 |
| 26 Sep 2026 | 25.9% | 11.34 |
| 25 Sep 2026 | 25.8% | 11.3 |
| 24 Sep 2026 | 25.8% | 11.31 |
| 23 Sep 2026 | 25.6% | 11.24 |
| 22 Sep 2026 | 25.6% | 11.22 |
| 21 Sep 2026 | 25.7% | 11.25 |