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Virginia
70% average fill
Measured
5
Volume stored
1,596 hm³
Measured capacity
2,280 hm³
Below month average
4 of 5
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Drought Monitor · 20 October 2026
Weekly map · area in each categoryDrought status
24.5%
of the area in drought (D1 or worse)
Worst category: D3 extreme drought
up 1.3 points on the week
Severe or worse (D2+)
13.6%
Extreme or worse (D3+)
2.3%
DSCI
920–500
People in drought
1.9 million
Reservoirs (reservoirs.earth)
70.0% full5 tracked
Reservoirs on drought ground
1 of 51 in D2 or worse
As of the 20 October 2026 U.S. Drought Monitor map, 24.5% of Virginia was in drought (D1 or worse), with 2.3% in extreme or exceptional drought (D3–D4). The 5 reservoirs we track in Virginia were 70.0% full on their latest readings. 1 of 5 tracked reservoir sites sit inside the drought area, 1 of them in severe drought (D2) or worse.
The Drought Monitor maps where conditions are dry this week — rainfall, soil moisture, streamflow — not how much water is stored. Reservoir storage lags it by months, so a region can be in drought with full reservoirs, or out of drought with empty ones. Source: droughtmonitor.unl.edu. The U.S. Drought Monitor is jointly produced by the National Drought Mitigation Center at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, the United States Department of Agriculture, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. Map courtesy of NDMC.
Reservoirs
Sorted by capacityJohn H. Kerr Dam
Updated 2026-10-22· 95% of month avg· D2
Philpott Dam
Updated 2026-10-22· 103% of month avg· D0
Lake Moomaw
Updated 2026-10-28· 98% of month avg
J.W. Flannagan Reservoir
Updated 2026-10-28· 97% of month avg
North Fork of Pound Lake
Updated 2026-10-28· 94% of month avg
Storage from official US gauges (USGS, USACE, Bureau of Reclamation, CDEC) and, in Texas, the Texas Water Development Board. Fill % uses design capacity from the National Inventory of Dams where available; Water Data for Texas lakes use that board's conservation capacity; a few sites without a match fall back to the 5-year maximum. "% of month avg" compares the current fill with the reservoir’s own average for this calendar month over its readings on record. D0–D4 is the U.S. Drought Monitor category of the ground at the reservoir’s coordinates on the latest weekly map — local conditions, not storage.
About reservoirs in Virginia
As of October 28, 2026, the reservoirs we track across Virginia that report live levels hold roughly 1,596 hm³ of water — about 70.0% of their combined capacity. Taken together, Virginia's reservoirs are within their normal operating range.
None of the tracked reservoirs are currently at critically low levels. Philpott Dam is the fullest at 94.3%, while John H. Kerr Dam is the lowest at 66.3%.
Over the most recent week on record, 3 reservoirs fell across Virginia.
Storage figures for Virginia come from USGS · USACE · BOR · CDEC; the most recent reading is from October 28, 2026. Each reservoir below links to its own page with full history and seasonal context.
Virginia at a glance
- Reservoirs tracked
- 5
- Average fill
- 70.0%
- Water stored
- 1,596 hm³
- Combined capacity
- 2,280 hm³
- Fullest
- Philpott Dam (94.3%)
- Lowest
- John H. Kerr Dam (66.3%)
- Last updated
- October 28, 2026