Lake Okeechobee water level

What this level means

The Army Corps of Engineers Jacksonville District publishes a daily average stage for Lake Okeechobee together with total inflows and outflows. There is no percent-full figure because the lake is operated against a seasonal regulation schedule, not against a fixed conservation pool. The most useful comparison is the long-term average for the same calendar day, which the Corps reports alongside the current stage.

How this reading is taken

U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Jacksonville District 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 Lake Okeechobee 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.