All evacuation orders for the Thompson Fire, near Lake Oroville, were downgraded to warnings ... of Forestry and Fire Protection. The map above shows the approximate fire perimeter as a black ...

(Jake Hutchison/Enterprise-Record) A muddy shoreline touches Lake Oroville near the Lime Saddle Campground on Monday, July 15, 2024 in Paradise, California. (Jake Hutchison/Enterprise-Record ...

A record wet season has led to California's second-largest reservoir filling up. California's Lake Oroville, one of the many important reservoirs in the West that reached critically low levels ...

OROVILLE — The marinas are full and Lake Oroville is on its way there as well. Lake Oroville was measured at 888.79 feet in elevation at 2 p.m. Monday, meaning it’s about 11 feet from capacity.

Following that, in 2022, a boat sent sonar pulses into Lake Oroville to map the underwater terrain. Engineers calculated that the reservoir had 3% less capacity — over 100,000 acre-feet — than ...