High Hazard Dams

Loss of human life is likely if the dam fails.

Dam Name Hazard Height Built Type State
Abeniki Lake Dam Coos High Hazard 40 ft 1900 Earth New Hampshire
Aberdeen Lake Dam Grays Harbor High Hazard 1928 Earth Washington
Aberdeen Town Lake Dam Moore High Hazard 1945 Earth North Carolina
Abert Water Plant - Sludge Lagoon Dam Bedford High Hazard 55 ft Earth Virginia
Abiaca Watershed Structure Y-34-03 Dam Carroll High Hazard 33 ft 1965 Earth Mississippi
Abiaca Watershed Structure Y-34-04 Dam Carroll High Hazard 41 ft 1968 Earth Mississippi
Abiaca Watershed Structure Y-34-05 Dam Carroll High Hazard 40 ft 1965 Earth Mississippi
Abiaca Watershed Structure Y-34-06 Dam Carroll High Hazard 41 ft 1967 Earth Mississippi
Abiaca Watershed Structure Y-34-07 Dam Carroll High Hazard 39 ft 1966 Earth Mississippi
Abiaca Watershed Structure Y-34-10 Dam Carroll High Hazard 41 ft 1967 Earth Mississippi
Abiaca Watershed Structure Y-34-25 Dam Carroll High Hazard 30 ft 1971 Earth Mississippi
Abiquiu Dam Rio Arriba High Hazard 340 ft 1963 Earth New Mexico
Abner Fork Dam Harlan High Hazard 700 ft Earth Kentucky
Abotlapoota Creek WS Str Y-34-11 Dam Carroll High Hazard 44 ft 1965 Earth Mississippi
Abotlapoota Watershed Structure Y-34-13 Dam Carroll High Hazard 26 ft 1965 Earth Mississippi
Absher Lake Dam White High Hazard 15 ft 1968 Earth Illinois
Acacia Woods Lake Dam Rankin High Hazard 35 ft 2001 Earth Mississippi
Acadia Power Partners Holding Pond Acadia High Hazard 20 ft 2004 Earth Louisiana
Ackley Lake Dam Judith Basin High Hazard 55 ft 1938 Earth Montana
Acme (Pa-657) Westmoreland High Hazard 33 ft 1975 Earth Pennsylvania
Acme Pond Dam Windham High Hazard 16 ft 1846 Earth Connecticut
Acomita Cibola High Hazard 1938 Earth New Mexico
Acorn Dickson High Hazard 1939 Earth Tennessee
Acorn Ridge Ramsey High Hazard 37 ft 2012 North Dakota
Acre Pond Susquehanna High Hazard 12 ft 1825 Earth Pennsylvania
Acton Lake Dam Butler High Hazard 62 ft 1956 Earth Ohio
Acuff & Ayers Lake Dam Bollinger High Hazard 30 ft 1968 Earth Missouri
Ada Dam Mercer High Hazard 62 ft 1924 Earth West Virginia
Adams Davis High Hazard 1915 Earth Utah
Adams Dairy Parkway Dam Jackson High Hazard 48 ft 1992 Earth Missouri
Adams Fork Slurry Dam Leslie High Hazard 480 ft Earth Kentucky
Adams Lake Blount High Hazard 1970 Earth Alabama
Adams Lake Dam Guilford High Hazard 1955 Earth North Carolina
Adams Lake Dam Adams High Hazard 35 ft 1947 Earth Ohio
Adams Millpond Dam Kershaw High Hazard 13 ft 1890 South Carolina
Adams Park Dam Douglas High Hazard 13 ft 2016 Earth Nebraska
Adams Pond Dam York High Hazard 26 ft 1946 South Carolina
Adamsville Hydroelectric Dam Cass High Hazard 11 ft 1865 Earth Michigan
Adder Reservoir Middlesex High Hazard 28 ft 1934 Earth Connecticut
Addicks Dam Harris High Hazard 49 ft 1948 Gravity Texas
Addison Mill Pond Dam Lenawee High Hazard 25 ft 1837 Earth Michigan
Adds Lake Dam Hunt High Hazard 15 ft 2018 Texas
Adelaide Big Horn High Hazard 74 ft 1990 Earth Wyoming
Adjuntas Dam Adjuntas High Hazard 80 ft 1950 Gravity Puerto Rico
Adkison Lake Dam Platte High Hazard 20 ft 1954 Earth Missouri
Adobe Maricopa High Hazard 65 ft 1982 Earth Arizona
Adobe Creek Bent High Hazard 32 ft 1904 Earth Colorado
Adobe Creek Lake High Hazard 36 ft 1962 Earth California
Adobe Wash Regulating Reservoir Emery High Hazard 2012 Earth Utah
Adrian Resevoir Dam Bates High Hazard 27 ft 1963 Other Missouri