May 5, 2012

SHASTA LAKE Shasta Lake holds a maximum of

4,552,000 acre-feet of water. The last time the reservoir was full was in the spring of 2012.

SHASTA LAKE

May 2, 2013

Signs of severe drought in California began to appear in 2013—Shasta Lake peaked at only 3,887,430 acre-feet on April 18.

SHASTA LAKE

March 12, 2014

And was over 1 million acre-feet lower the following spring—with a maximum storage of 2,409,395 acre-feet on April 28, 2014.

November 17 & 25, 2014

SHASTA LAKE Lake levels continued to decline

throughout the summer, bottoming out in November at 1,046,027 acre-feet—less than one quarter full.

May 6, 2015

SHASTA LAKE Despite a dry winter, Shasta Lake

rebounded somewhat in the spring of 2015, and hit 2,721,996 acre-feet on April 15, 2016.

March 3, 2016

SHASTA LAKE El Niño rain and snow brought

relief in 2016—the reservoir was almost full at 4,234,824 acre-feet on May 1.