Lake · Utah

Flaming Gorge Reservoir

1,839 m6,033 ft

Area: 162 km²

Flaming Gorge Reservoir is a lake at 1,839 m above sea level in Utah, United States, 162 km² in area and 66.1 km long.

All facts

Surface elevation: 1,839 m
Length: 66.1 km
Shoreline: 664.2 km

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Lake

Flaming Gorge Reservoir in numbers

Shoreline from OpenStreetMap.

Shoreline: 664.2 km

3D map

Flaming Gorge Reservoir 3D map

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Surface

Vertical scale

Topographic map

Flaming Gorge Reservoir terrain and contours

20 m contours from the USGS 3DEP 10 m terrain model. Click two points on the map to draw your own cross-section.Tap two points on the map to draw your own cross-section.

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Flaming Gorge Reservoir elevation profile

West → east through the centre

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Weather

Flaming Gorge Reservoir weather

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Forecast data: NOAA National Weather Service, public domain.

Slope

Share of the 20 × 20 km view by steepness, from the 10 m model.

Mostly gentle: 90% of the view is under 15°.

Gentle, 0–15°

90.3%

Moderate, 15–30°

8.9%

Steep, 30–45°

0.8%

Cliffs, 45° and over

0.0%

Steeper than 30°: 0.8% of the 400 km² view
Relief in view: 338 m low point 1,839 m

Land cover

ESA WorldCover 10 m classification of the same area.

Shrubland 40.2%Bare rock / sparse 30.7%Grassland 15.6%Water 13.0%

Snow & ice means glaciers and year-round snow (a yearly average), not today’s snow cover.

Wildlife

Wildlife seen nearby

Sightings of the most-seen species on iNaturalist (research grade) within 10 km; 93 species recorded in all.

Sightings per species 6

Pronghorn6
Scarlet Globemallow5
Greasewood4
Plateau Fence Lizard4
Gopher Snake3
Great mullein3

Where it sits

Where Flaming Gorge Reservoir sits

Nearby

Nearby places

More 1

Bear Lake1,806 m176 km WNW

Downloads

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Print & wall

JPGFlaming Gorge Reservoir satellite image (JPEG)Sentinel-2 true-colour image of the same area, taken 2026-08-06.

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GIS & GPS

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Sources

Data sources

Terrain: U.S. Geological Survey, 3D Elevation Program (public domain)
Imagery: Contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data 2026 (scene 2026-08-06)
Land cover: © ESA WorldCover project 2021 / Contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data (2021) processed by ESA WorldCover consortium
Facts: Wikidata (CC0)
Protected area: USGS Gap Analysis Project, PAD-US (public domain)
Wildlife: iNaturalist community observations, counts only
Forecast: Weather forecast from NOAA National Weather Service (public domain)
Sources: Wikidata · GeoNames · Wikipedia