Water level
Donner Lake water level
Donner Lake is at 5,933.44 ft as of Sep 9, 2026. Live readings, trend, history and what the level means for swimming and boat ramps.
Recent readings
Daily values from USGS gauge 10338400.
What this level means
Station 10338400, DONNER LK NR TRUCKEE CA, publishes the water surface elevation used here. The last value stored here, 5,933.44 ft, is from 2026-09-09. A low pool exposes stumps and mud in the shallow arms of the lake.
How this reading is taken
USGS gauge 10338400 measures the water surface and publishes the value continuously. This page stores the latest reading at build time and refreshes the record daily, so the figure above is a real measurement rather than a model or an estimate.
No operating agency publishes a full pool elevation for Donner Lake that we can cite, so this page shows the reading and its trend without a percentage.
Elevations are given in feet above the gauge datum used by the operating agency. Two lakes are only comparable with each other through how full they are, not through their raw elevation, because each dam sits at a different height.
Water level questions
What is the current water level at Donner Lake?
The latest reading is 5,933.44 ft, from USGS gauge 10338400.
Sources
Every figure on this page comes from one of these public sources.