Flaming Gorge Water Level
On the Green River, the largest Upper Basin reservoir after Lake Powell. Extra releases from Flaming Gorge have been used to prop up Lake Powell since 2021.
USBR daily reading for Oct 23, 2026
- PERCENT FULL
- 64.4%
- 7-DAY CHANGE
- −0.5 pts
- ELEVATION
- 6,005.3 ft
- water surface, above sea level
- ACRE-FEET
- 2.44M
- of 3.79M capacity
- GALLONS
- 794.87B
- of 1234.62B
Water balance, 7 days to Oct 23, 2026
- Inflow
- 12,968 af
- Reclamation's measured inflow
- Release
- 30,039 af
- Water passed downstream through the dam
- Change in storage
- −17,574 af
- From the daily storage readings; the difference from inflow minus release is evaporation, diversions and rounding
Trend
- 7 days
- −0.5 pts
- vs. the reading a week earlier
- 1 year
- −14.7 pts
- vs. end of Sep 2025 (79.1%)
- 10-year low
- 64.4%
- today; lowest month-end was 64.9% (Feb 2023)
- 10-year high
- 93.7%
- end of Jun 2018
Yearly figures and the high/low compare end-of-month storage from Reclamation's monthly series with the latest daily reading. This site does not project future levels; for official 24-month projections see Reclamation's 24-Month Study. How each figure is derived is explained in the FAQ.
10-Year Historical Trend
End-of-month storage as a percent of capacity. Source: U.S. Bureau of Reclamation. Dashed lines are this site's warning (50%) and critical (30%) marks.
About Flaming Gorge
Flaming Gorge is on the Green River in WY/UT. Reclamation's capacity figure for it is 3,788,900 acre-feet (total capacity), about 1234.62B gallons.
On the Green River, the largest Upper Basin reservoir after Lake Powell. Extra releases from Flaming Gorge have been used to prop up Lake Powell since 2021.
As of Oct 23, 2026, the reservoir held 2,439,377 acre-feet, 64.4% of capacity, down 0.5 pts from the reading seven days earlier, with the water surface at 6,005.3 feet above sea level. Storage figures are U.S. Bureau of Reclamation daily readings; recent values are provisional and may be revised.
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