Shasta Lake

This Overview shows Shasta Lake in Northern California in late May 2021. Surface elevation of the reservoir — formed by the impounding of the Sacramento River — was at 959 feet (292.3 m) in this image, down from 1,016 feet (309.6 m) in the previous June. This difference of 57 feet (17.4 m) equates to a volume loss of more than 1.1 million acre feet, or 359 billion gallons — enough water to fill an Olympic swimming pool 550,000 times. Currently, about 95% of California is experiencing a severe drought as rising temperatures dwindle snowpack and reservoirs across the state see record-low inflows. Follow us on Instagram @dailyoverview to see a Timelapse of the reservoir's water levels.

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