Deepest lakes & reservoirs in South Florida by maximum depth (ft)
The estimated greatest depth of the water in a lake can be measured at the lake’s normal elevation. If the water volume and surface area of a lake are known, an estimate of the lake’s average depth can be calculated:Water volume ÷ Surface Area = Average Depth
Example: 1,000,000 acre-feet ÷ 20,000 acres = 50 feet average depth.
You can find many of the the world’s deepest lakes on LakeLubbers. If you sort the list, you will find the (maximum depth of) the shallowest lakes in our database. Note: For some lakes, lake depth data is unknown, so this table may display fewer lakes than the total 9 articles we have published for South Florida lakes.
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Below are lakes within USA > US South Region > Florida > South Florida > Compared by maximum depth in feet. This list does not represent all lakes in South Florida, only the 9 South Florida lake articles we have published on the LakeLubbers website.
Lake name  |
Max depth in feet |
Lake description |
|---|---|---|
| Deep Lake, FL (Florida, South Florida, US South Region, USA) |
98 ft | Fish and other water-loving animals glide just beneath the surface of water that plunges 98 feet deep. Florida royal palms and patches of cypress tree… |
| Lake Placid, FL (Florida, South Florida, US South Region, USA) |
57 ft | Lake Placid is a large sandy-bottom, freshwater lake located in south central Florida. The lake is ideally located between the Gulf and Atlantic Coast… |
| Lake Wales Ridge and Crooked Lake (East Central Florida, Florida, South Florida, US South Region, USA, West Central Florida) |
45 ft | Also known as Lake Caloosa Remnants of desert sea islands 2.3 million years old host the hundreds of lakes along Florida’s Lake Wales Ridge. This large area encompasses a broad… |
| Lake June in Winter, FL (Florida, South Florida, US South Region, USA) |
40 ft | Also known as Lake June, Lake Stearns Lake June in Winter, often referred to simply as Lake June, is a 3,504 acre freshwater lake in the Lake Placid area of south-central Florida. Formerly… |
| Lake Sebring, FL (Florida, South Florida, US South Region, USA) |
17 ft | Also known as Sebring Lake Lake Sebring in Highlands County has been a Florida tourism destination since 1912. Wealthy businessman George Sebring came here from Ohio on a fishin… |
| Lake Huntley, FL (Florida, South Florida, US South Region, USA) |
17 ft | They are sipping tea, watching the sun set across beautiful Lake Huntley and counting their emerging lucky stars. They were looking for a place to sta… |
| Lake Okeechobee, FL (Florida, South Florida, US South Region, USA) |
12 ft | With over 451,000 blue, watery acres, Lake Okeechobee is a lake with many titles. It is, by surface acreage, the largest lake in Florida. It also hold… |
| Lake Istokpoga, FL (Florida, South Florida, US South Region, USA) |
10 ft | Lake Istokpoga, located in Highlands County, is Florida’s fifth largest lake and stretches out over 27,692 Florida acres. With a maximum length of 10… |