West Okoboji Lake lake and shoreline

West Okoboji Lake Water Level

Iowa

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West Okoboji Lake

Current level

No public live gage

USGS, the Corps, and other public feeds do not publish a pool elevation for this lake. Conservation-pool and datum values from the catalog may still appear below.

Since last reading

No prior reading

Change appears once we have two daily level summaries on file.

Prior reading unavailable

7-day change

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Insufficient history for 7-day trend

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30-day change

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30-day change is shown once 30 days of daily history are available.

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Water Level History

No live elevation history

This lake has no public live pool gage, so Lake Insights cannot plot a water-level history. Published conservation or full-pool elevation may still appear in the panels below.

Reference line is designed full pool.

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West Okoboji Lake Level Details

Reference elevations, recent daily readings, data sources, and answers to common questions.

Conditions & Reference

Level status

Summary updating

This comparison needs the current level and full pool. We use the live feed when present, otherwise the latest daily summary when it includes a pool comparison.

DatumElevation referenced to National Geodetic Vertical Datum of 1929.
NGVD29
Elevation reference
MSL
Source
Not available

Reference levels

  • Full pool1,398 ft

Surrounding county drought

No Drought

Dominant category Abnormally Dry (D0); not counted as official drought.

Severity

NoneExtreme
Trend
Improving

Surrounding county drought

Dickinson County, IA

No Drought

No Drought. No USDM drought categories are reported for Dickinson County, IA. These figures describe the surrounding county from the lake location, not the lake itself.. Trend: Improving compared with last week. Official drought (D1–D4) no

Severity

NoneExtreme

Weekly trend

Improving

Compared with last week

Official drought (D1–D4)

No

Abnormally Dry (D0) is present in the surrounding county, but D0 is not counted as official drought (D1–D4).

U.S. Drought Monitor · map date Oct 6, 2026. Updated weekly. Official drought means U.S. Drought Monitor categories D1–D4 (Moderate through Exceptional). Abnormally Dry (D0) is not counted as official drought. droughtmonitor.unl.eduView drought map for Dickinson County, IA

Daily level summary

Daily history updating

Daily rows will appear here as level summaries are recorded for this lake.

Common questions about West Okoboji Lake’s water level

  • Lake Insights does not currently have a live gauge elevation for West Okoboji Lake. No public USGS or U.S. Army Corps of Engineers pool gage is published for this lake, so a current West Okoboji Lake lake level is not shown.

  • West Okoboji Lake does not have a public live pool-elevation feed. Lake Insights only plots a current elevation when an official agency gage (USGS, Corps, NOAA, or a verified operator feed) is available.

  • Full pool for West Okoboji Lake is 1,398 ft — the normal conservation target elevation when the reservoir is at its designed summer or operating pool.

Lake level glossary

Definitions for pool targets, datums, and how elevation readings are labeled.

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