High Hazard Dams
Loss of human life is likely if the dam fails.
| Dam Name | Hazard | Height | Built | Type | State |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Yellowsmoke Park Dam Crawford | High Hazard | 59 ft | 1980 | Earth | Iowa |
| Yellowstone Lafayette | High Hazard | 32 ft | 1953 | Gravity | Wisconsin |
| Yellowtail Big Horn | High Hazard | 491 ft | 1966 | Concrete | Montana |
| Yellow Water Dike Petroleum | High Hazard | 11 ft | 1938 | Rockfill | Montana |
| Yellow Water Main Dam Petroleum | High Hazard | 37 ft | 1938 | Rockfill | Montana |
| Yellowwood Lake Dam Brown | High Hazard | 41 ft | 1939 | Earth | Indiana |
| Yelm Canal Dike Thurston | High Hazard | 35 ft | 1930 | Earth | Washington |
| Yesterday South Lake Dam Tate | High Hazard | 24 ft | — | Earth | Mississippi |
| Yett Creek Park Dam Travis | High Hazard | 16 ft | 1996 | Earth | Texas |
| Ymca Camp Mcalister Dam Orange | High Hazard | 26 ft | 1955 | Earth | New York |
| Yonah Oconee | High Hazard | 90 ft | 1925 | Gravity | Georgia |
| Yorba Orange | High Hazard | 45 ft | 1907 | Earth | California |
| York Creek WS SCS Site 10 Dam Guadalupe | High Hazard | 40 ft | 1963 | Earth | Texas |
| York Creek WS SCS Site 12 Dam Guadalupe | High Hazard | 46 ft | 1963 | Earth | Texas |
| York Creek WS SCS Site 13 Dam Guadalupe | High Hazard | 34 ft | 1964 | Earth | Texas |
| York Creek WS SCS Site 14 Dam Guadalupe | High Hazard | 25 ft | 1963 | Earth | Texas |
| York Creek WS SCS Site 1 Dam Comal | High Hazard | 81 ft | 1967 | Earth | Texas |
| York Creek WS SCS Site 2 Dam Comal | High Hazard | 48 ft | 1963 | Earth | Texas |
| York Creek WS SCS Site 3 Dam Comal | High Hazard | 31 ft | 1967 | Earth | Texas |
| York Creek WS SCS Site 4 Dam Guadalupe | High Hazard | 38 ft | 1965 | Earth | Texas |
| York Creek WS SCS Site 5 Dam Hays | High Hazard | 41 ft | 1963 | Earth | Texas |
| York Creek WS SCS Site 7 Dam Guadalupe | High Hazard | 38 ft | 1962 | Earth | Texas |
| York Creek WS SCS Site 8 Dam Guadalupe | High Hazard | 31 ft | 1963 | Earth | Texas |
| Yorker Mill Pond Washington | High Hazard | 12 ft | 1855 | Rockfill | Rhode Island |
| York Indian Rock Dam York | High Hazard | 83 ft | 1942 | Rockfill | Pennsylvania |
| York Lake Dam Polk | High Hazard | 27 ft | — | Earth | Georgia |
| Youghiogheny Dam Fayette | High Hazard | — | 1944 | Earth | Pennsylvania |
| Young Dam Cole | High Hazard | 64 ft | — | Earth | Missouri |
| Young Kim Lake Dam Pickens | High Hazard | 29 ft | 1973 | Earth | Georgia |
| Young Lake Dam Rockingham | High Hazard | — | 1965 | Earth | North Carolina |
| Young Lake Dam Fannin | High Hazard | 37 ft | 1971 | Earth | Georgia |
| Young Lake Dam Monroe | High Hazard | 19 ft | 1996 | Earth | Indiana |
| Young Lake Dam #2 Forsyth | High Hazard | — | — | Earth | North Carolina |
| Younglife Waste A (Lower) Wasco | High Hazard | 41 ft | 1986 | Earth | Oregon |
| Younglife Waste B (Middle) Wasco | High Hazard | 15 ft | — | Earth | Oregon |
| Younglife Waste C (Upper) Wasco | High Hazard | 15 ft | — | Earth | Oregon |
| Young Mill Tailings Jefferson | High Hazard | — | 1998 | Earth | Tennessee |
| Youngs Creek #1 & 2 Delta | High Hazard | 46 ft | 1952 | Earth | Colorado |
| Young's Lake Cumberland | High Hazard | 26 ft | 1993 | Earth | North Carolina |
| Youngs Lake New Inlet Dam King | High Hazard | — | 1926 | Earth | Washington |
| Youngs Lake Outlet Dam King | High Hazard | — | 1921 | Earth | Washington |
| Youngs Pond Dam Warren | High Hazard | 18 ft | 1972 | Earth | New Jersey |
| Youngstown Upground Reservoir Mahoning | High Hazard | 29 ft | 1929 | Concrete | Ohio |
| Youth Camp Lake Dam Bartholomew | High Hazard | 36 ft | 1945 | Earth | Indiana |
| Yowell Lake Dam Mercer | High Hazard | 23 ft | 1990 | Earth | Missouri |
| Yseleta Lake Dam Nacogdoches | High Hazard | 24 ft | 1912 | Earth | Texas |
| Y T Ranch Mesa | High Hazard | 33 ft | 1911 | Earth | Colorado |
| Yucaipa No. 1 San Bernardino | High Hazard | 42 ft | 1978 | Earth | California |
| Yucaipa No. 2 San Bernardino | High Hazard | 49 ft | 1978 | Earth | California |
| Zachariah Lake Dam Lee | High Hazard | 40 ft | 1950 | Earth | Kentucky |