High Hazard Dams

Loss of human life is likely if the dam fails.

Dam Name Hazard Height Built Type State
Bayou Loco Dam Nacogdoches High Hazard 71 ft 1977 Earth Texas
Bays Mountain Sullivan High Hazard 1915 Masonry Tennessee
Bayview Lake Jefferson High Hazard 1910 Gravity Alabama
B Bend Hollow Sullivan High Hazard 1977 Earth Tennessee
B & C Subdivision Dam Boone High Hazard 34 ft 1989 Earth Missouri
Beach City Dam Tuscarawas High Hazard 1936 Earth Ohio
Beach Dam Golden Valley High Hazard 17 ft 1932 Earth North Dakota
Beacon Hill Reservoir Grays Harbor High Hazard 1935 Rockfill Washington
Beaglin Park Dam (Beaglin Park Drive) Wicomico High Hazard 21 ft 1976 Earth Maryland
Beall Lake Dam Pulaski High Hazard 14 ft 1952 Earth Arkansas
Beam Road Dam Mecklenburg High Hazard Other North Carolina
Bean Hollow Slurry Impoundment (Plant 1 Crdf) Boone High Hazard 415 ft Earth West Virginia
Bear Branch Lake Dam Montgomery High Hazard 27 ft 1983 Earth Texas
Bear Branch Slurry Impoundment Lawrence High Hazard 258 ft Earth Kentucky
Bear Canyon Dam Grant High Hazard 79 ft 1937 Earth New Mexico
Bear Claw Love No. 1 Sheridan High Hazard 44 ft 1966 Earth Wyoming
Bear Creek Clatsop High Hazard 90 ft 1953 Gravity Oregon
Bear Creek Jackson High Hazard 215 ft 1954 Earth North Carolina
Bear Creek 3 Douglas High Hazard 55 ft 1973 Earth Oregon
Bear Creek Dam Franklin High Hazard 68 ft 1969 Earth Alabama
Bear Creek Dam Jefferson High Hazard 1979 Earth Colorado
Bear Creek Dam Ralls High Hazard 65 ft 1962 Earth Missouri
Bear Creek Dam Wise High Hazard 45 ft Earth Virginia
Bear Creek Lake Carbon High Hazard 35 ft 1964 Earth Pennsylvania
Bear Creek Lake Luzerne High Hazard 17 ft 1915 Roller-Compacted Concrete Pennsylvania
Bear Creek Lake Dam Brown High Hazard 31 ft 1939 Earth Indiana
Bear Creek Lake Dam Scioto High Hazard 26 ft 1935 Earth Ohio
Bear Creek Reservoir Jackson High Hazard 82 ft Earth Georgia
Bear Dam Mariposa High Hazard 85 ft 1954 Earth California
Beard Lake Dam Randolph High Hazard 1965 Earth North Carolina
Beardsley Tuolumne High Hazard 278 ft 1957 Earth California
Bear Gap No 2 Columbia High Hazard 83 ft 1923 Earth Pennsylvania
Bear Gap No 6 Columbia High Hazard 70 ft 1915 Earth Pennsylvania
Bear Gulch San Mateo High Hazard 61 ft 1896 Earth California
Bear Gulch Dam San Benito High Hazard 44 ft 1934 Gravity California
Bear Gulch Pond Dam Schoharie High Hazard 18 ft 1910 Earth New York
Bear Lake Leavenworth High Hazard 41 ft Earth Kansas
Bear Mountain Dam Chelan High Hazard 2003 Earth Washington
Bearpaw Lake Dam Hill High Hazard 64 ft 1958 Earth Montana
Bear Rocks Lake No.1 Ohio High Hazard 25 ft 1951 Earth West Virginia
Bear Rocks Lake No.2 Ohio High Hazard 35 ft 1948 Earth West Virginia
Bear Rocks Lake No.3 Ohio High Hazard 23 ft 1948 Earth West Virginia
Beartree Branch Slurry Impoundment Harlan High Hazard 345 ft Earth Kentucky
Bear Valley San Bernardino High Hazard 80 ft 1911 Multi-Arch California
Beaty Dam Mecklenburg High Hazard Earth North Carolina
Beauchamp Lake Dam Forsyth High Hazard Earth North Carolina
Beaulieu Tripp High Hazard 41 ft 1947 Earth South Dakota
Beautiful Run Dam #2a Madison High Hazard 39 ft Earth Virginia
Beaver Shelby High Hazard 1956 Earth Tennessee
Beaver Gunnison High Hazard 100 ft 1958 Earth Colorado