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Burnsville Lake water level today

Reservoir in Braxton, West Virginia · Little Kanawha River

789.39ft
240.61 m · NGVD29
Measured · provisional
Normal for the dateSteady
vs full pool ?
▲ 13.39 ft
24 hours
▲ 0.05 ft
7 days
▼ 0.06 ft
30 days
▼ 1.91 ft
Normal for Oct 21 ?
788.71 ft

What this means

Burnsville Lake is 13.39 ft above its full pool of 776.00 ft.

It is lower than on Oct 21 in 2 of the last 6 years.

The lake has fallen 0.06 ft in 7 days and fallen 1.91 ft in 30 days.

Since 2020, the lowest daily level was 773.01 ft (Mar 2023) and the highest 806.11 ft (May 2022).

Burnsville Lake level chart

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Measured Normal range for the date (middle 50% of past years) Full pool

Same date in past years

DateLevelvs today
Oct 21, 2025785.88 ft▼ 3.51 ft
Oct 21, 2024784.64 ft▼ 4.75 ft
Oct 21, 2023789.66 ft▲ 0.27 ft
Oct 21, 2022789.56 ft▲ 0.17 ft
Oct 21, 2021789.06 ft▼ 0.33 ft
Oct 21, 2020788.36 ft▼ 1.03 ft

Records & details

Highest
806.11 ft on May 8, 2022
Lowest
773.01 ft on Mar 11, 2023
Records from
2020 (6 years of daily data)
Full pool
776.00 ft (top of conservation pool, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers)
Storage
14,669 acre-ft
Inflow
170 cfs (4.81 m³/s)
Outflow
170 cfs (4.81 m³/s)
Water temperature
66 °F (18.9 °C)

What acre-feet and % full mean

Full history: yearly highs and lows, monthly averages →

Weather & wind

This Afternoon66°F · Sunny
Wind N 1 mph
Tonight31°F · Mostly Clear then Patchy Fog
Wind 0 mph
Thursday64°F · Areas Of Frost then Sunny
Wind N 2 mph
Thursday Night32°F · Partly Cloudy then Areas Of Fog
Wind N 1 mph
Friday66°F · Areas Of Fog then Sunny
Wind N 2 mph
Friday Night31°F · Mostly Clear
Wind NE 2 mph

NOAA National Weather Service forecast for this lake's location, updated 12 min ago.

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