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West Virginia
59.7% average fill
Measured
9
Volume stored
473 hm³
Measured capacity
792 hm³
Low level
1
Below month average
5 of 9
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Drought Monitor · 20 October 2026
Weekly map · area in each categoryDrought status
0.0%
of the area in drought (D1 or worse)
Worst category: D0 abnormally dry
unchanged on the week
Severe or worse (D2+)
0.0%
Extreme or worse (D3+)
0.0%
DSCI
20–500
People in drought
1,000
Reservoirs (reservoirs.earth)
59.7% full9 tracked
Reservoirs on drought ground
0 of 9
As of the 20 October 2026 U.S. Drought Monitor map, 0.0% of West Virginia was in drought (D1 or worse). The 9 reservoirs we track in West Virginia were 59.7% full on their latest readings. 0 of 9 tracked reservoir sites sit inside the drought area.
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 capacityTygart Lake
lowUpdated 2026-10-28· 75% of month avg
Summersville Lake
Updated 2026-10-28· 99% of month avg
Sutton Lake
Updated 2026-10-28· 95% of month avg
Stonewall Jackson Lake
Updated 2026-10-28· 92% of month avg
Bluestone Lake
Updated 2026-10-28· 97% of month avg
R.D. Bailey Lake
Updated 2026-10-28· 105% of month avg
Burnsville Lake
Updated 2026-10-28· 100% of month avg
East Lynn Lake
Updated 2026-10-28· 100% of month avg
Beech Fork Lake
Updated 2026-10-28· 104% 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 West Virginia
As of October 28, 2026, the reservoirs we track across West Virginia that report live levels hold roughly 473 hm³ of water — about 59.7% of their combined capacity. Taken together, West Virginia's reservoirs are within their normal operating range.
Across the region, 1 is low. East Lynn Lake is the fullest at 102.1%, while Tygart Lake is the lowest at 29.6%.
Over the most recent week on record, 4 reservoirs fell across West Virginia.
Storage figures for West 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.
West Virginia at a glance
- Reservoirs tracked
- 9
- Average fill
- 59.7%
- Water stored
- 473 hm³
- Combined capacity
- 792 hm³
- Fullest
- East Lynn Lake (102.1%)
- Lowest
- Tygart Lake (29.6%)
- Last updated
- October 28, 2026