High Hazard Dams
Loss of human life is likely if the dam fails.
| Dam Name | Hazard | Height | Built | Type | State |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bistone Dam Limestone | High Hazard | 50 ft | 1961 | Earth | Texas |
| Bitter Lake Reservoir King | High Hazard | — | 1958 | Earth | Washington |
| Bittersweet Lake Dam Brown | High Hazard | 33 ft | 1964 | Earth | Indiana |
| Bittle Lake Dam Miller | High Hazard | 28 ft | 1973 | Earth | Missouri |
| Bittner Lake Dam Vanderburgh | High Hazard | 24 ft | 1956 | Earth | Indiana |
| Bivins Lake Dam Randall | High Hazard | 47 ft | 1926 | Earth | Texas |
| B. J. Robinson Napa | High Hazard | 46 ft | 1957 | Earth | California |
| B&K Lake #1 Dam Warren | High Hazard | 26 ft | 1977 | Earth | Missouri |
| B & K Lake No. 2 Dam Warren | High Hazard | 32 ft | 1963 | Earth | Missouri |
| Black Arroyo Detention Dam Bernalillo | High Hazard | 26 ft | 1992 | Earth | New Mexico |
| Black Beauty Mineral | High Hazard | 52 ft | 1952 | Earth | Nevada |
| Blackberry Hay Farm Dam Jasper | High Hazard | 20 ft | 1965 | Earth | Missouri |
| Black Brook Pl-566 Flood Control Dam Hampden | High Hazard | 60 ft | 1971 | Earth | Massachusetts |
| Blackburn Kern | High Hazard | 48 ft | 1991 | Earth | California |
| Blackburn Crossing Dam | High Hazard | 75 ft | 1962 | Earth | Texas |
| Blackburn Lake Dam Orange | High Hazard | — | 1952 | Earth | North Carolina |
| Blackburn Pond (Mononame 209) Saline | High Hazard | 28 ft | 1966 | Earth | Missouri |
| Black Butte Dam Tehama | High Hazard | 140 ft | 1963 | Earth | California |
| Black Canyon Navajo | High Hazard | 60 ft | 1964 | Earth | Arizona |
| Black Canyon Diversion Gem | High Hazard | 183 ft | 1923 | Concrete | Idaho |
| Black Creek Cooling Water Dam Jackson | High Hazard | 20 ft | — | Earth | Mississippi |
| Black Creek Watershed Number 100 Dam Holmes | High Hazard | 39 ft | 1996 | Earth | Mississippi |
| Black Eagle Cascade | High Hazard | 35 ft | 1891 | Gravity | Montana |
| Blackfoot Caribou | High Hazard | 35 ft | 1911 | Earth | Idaho |
| Black Fox Hills Dam Nelson | High Hazard | 48 ft | — | Earth | Virginia |
| Blackhawk Dam Wake | High Hazard | — | — | Earth | North Carolina |
| Black Hollow Weld | High Hazard | 40 ft | 1918 | Earth | Colorado |
| Black Lake Missoula | High Hazard | — | 1967 | Earth | Montana |
| Black Lake #1 Eagle | High Hazard | 31 ft | 1939 | Earth | Colorado |
| Black Lake Bayou Reservoir Natchitoches | High Hazard | 37 ft | 1990 | Earth | Louisiana |
| Blackmon Lake Dam Muscogee | High Hazard | 30 ft | 1955 | Earth | Georgia |
| Blackmore Lake Dam Audrain | High Hazard | 32 ft | 1962 | Earth | Missouri |
| Black Mountain Detention Basin Dam Clark | High Hazard | 40 ft | 2000 | Earth | Nevada |
| Black Mountain Reservoir Dam Buncombe | High Hazard | — | — | Earth | North Carolina |
| Black Mountain Water Tank San Diego | High Hazard | 55 ft | 2002 | Other | California |
| Black Pond Dam Putnam | High Hazard | — | — | Earth | West Virginia |
| Black Pond Dam New Haven | High Hazard | 26 ft | 1880 | Earth | Connecticut |
| Black River Pond Dam Rensselaer | High Hazard | 42 ft | 1935 | Earth | New York |
| Black Rock McKinley | High Hazard | — | 1908 | Earth | New Mexico |
| Black Rock Dam Litchfield | High Hazard | 130 ft | 1971 | Rockfill | Connecticut |
| Black Rock Mountain State Park Lake Dam Rabun | High Hazard | 72 ft | 1974 | Earth | Georgia |
| Black Rock Orchards Dam Yakima | High Hazard | — | 1985 | Earth | Washington |
| Black Rock Pond Dam Litchfield | High Hazard | 16 ft | 1945 | Earth | Connecticut |
| Black Rock Reservoir Kent | High Hazard | 11 ft | 1885 | Masonry | Rhode Island |
| Black Run Creek Dam Cabarrus | High Hazard | — | 1988 | Earth | North Carolina |
| Blacks Creek Ada | High Hazard | 52 ft | 1915 | — | Idaho |
| Blacksville #1 Slurry Impoundment Dam | High Hazard | — | — | — | West Virginia |
| Blacksville #2 Cr Dam | High Hazard | — | — | — | West Virginia |
| Black Swan Lake Dam Johnson | High Hazard | 62 ft | 1982 | Earth | Kansas |
| Black Tailings Dam Washington | High Hazard | 70 ft | 1943 | Earth | Missouri |