Lake Mead storage

Name: Lake Mead storage
Creator: The Watershed
Keywords: Lake Mead, reservoir storage, Colorado (Lower), Nevada / Arizona, acre-feet

Reservoir storage in Colorado (Lower) basin, Nevada / Arizona

Last updated Jun 18, 2026

Now 7.45M af, 8% below the 5-yr median.

The numbers
Period	Current	Prior	Change
Week over week	7.45M af	7.54M af	-1.2%
Month over month	7.45M af	7.86M af	-5.2%
Year over year	7.45M af	8.11M af	-8.1%
vs 5-yr median	7.45M af	8.11M af	-8.1%

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