Saylorville Lake Reservoir water level today
Reservoir in Polk, Iowa · Des Moines River
837.04ft
255.13 m · NGVD29
Measured · provisional
Normal for the dateSteady
What this means
Saylorville Lake Reservoir is 1.04 ft above its full pool of 836.00 ft.
It is lower than on Oct 21 in 6 of the last 10 years.
The lake has fallen 0.13 ft in 30 days.
Since 2011, the lowest daily level was 792.82 ft (Feb 2012) and the highest 886.17 ft (Jul 2018).
Saylorville Lake Reservoir level chart
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Measured
Normal range for the date (middle 50% of past years)
Full pool
Same date in past years
| Date | Level | vs today |
|---|---|---|
| Oct 21, 2025 | 838.55 ft | ▲ 1.51 ft |
| Oct 21, 2024 | 836.68 ft | ▼ 0.36 ft |
| Oct 21, 2023 | 835.73 ft | ▼ 1.31 ft |
| Oct 21, 2022 | 834.54 ft | ▼ 2.50 ft |
| Oct 21, 2021 | 838.11 ft | ▲ 1.07 ft |
| Oct 21, 2020 | 836.72 ft | ▼ 0.32 ft |
| Oct 21, 2019 | 838.08 ft | ▲ 1.04 ft |
| Oct 21, 2018 | 874.29 ft | ▲ 37.25 ft |
| Oct 21, 2017 | 837.57 ft | ▲ 0.53 ft |
| Oct 21, 2016 | 839.54 ft | ▲ 2.50 ft |
Records & details
- Highest
- 886.17 ft on Jul 9, 2018
- Lowest
- 792.82 ft on Feb 14, 2012
- Records from
- 2011 (16 years of daily data)
- Full pool
- 836.00 ft (top of conservation pool, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers)
- Storage
- 69,929 acre-ft
- Inflow
- 4,338 cfs (122.8 m³/s)
- Outflow
- 4,012 cfs (113.6 m³/s)
- Water temperature
- Not measured here
Weather & wind
This Afternoon75°F · Sunny
Wind SSW 5 mph
Wind SSW 5 mph
Tonight52°F · Partly Cloudy
Wind S 1 to 5 mph
Wind S 1 to 5 mph
Thursday77°F · Patchy Fog then Sunny
Wind SSE 0 to 6 mph
Wind SSE 0 to 6 mph
Thursday Night53°F · Mostly Clear
Wind SSE 5 mph
Wind SSE 5 mph
Friday77°F · Mostly Sunny
Wind SSE 5 to 14 mph
Wind SSE 5 to 14 mph
Friday Night58°F · Mostly Cloudy
Wind SSE 12 mph
Wind SSE 12 mph
NOAA National Weather Service forecast for this lake's location, updated 1 h ago.