About 40 square miles on Lake Oroville’s west shore was under evacuation order for the Thompson Fire. Related Articles. Map: Butler Fire evacuation zone expanded ...

At its peak, shortly after the fire started on Tuesday, July 2, the order covered almost 50 square miles from the lake’s western shore into Oroville and north to Oregon City.

Storage at Lake Oroville has risen more than 240 feet and gained more than 2.5 million acre-feet of water since Dec. 1, according to the DWR. MORE: Snowpack in the West is melting rapidly.

Lake Oroville is currently at around 878 feet. Full capacity is at 900 feet. The DWR expects it to be full this spring. "I feel like a little kid on Christmas," said Carol Robinson who lives in ...

Lake Oroville, the state’s most beleaguered and second-largest reservoir, is at 100% of its total capacity — a huge boost after the climate change-fueled megadrought sucked away nearly all of ...

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 ...