Largest lakes & reservoirs in South Florida by acres
There is no widely-accepted minimum surface area that defines a lake. What LakeLubbers describes as a lake, you might call a pond. Acreage of a lake (or sometimes square kilometers) is most often measured at the top surface area when the lake is at normal elevation. The surface area can be considerably smaller or larger when lake levels are lower or higher than normal. North America’s Lake Superior is the world’s largest freshwater lake by this measure.The other measure of a lake’s size is the lake’s water volume. By that measure, the world’s largest freshwater lake is Lake Baikal in Siberia.
You can find many of the world’s largest lakes (acres) on LakeLubbers in the comparison table below. Note: For some lakes, "Largest Lakes - Acres" data is unknown or does not apply, so you may see 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 surface area in acres. 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  |
Surface area in acres |
Lake description |
|---|---|---|
| Lake Okeechobee, FL (Florida, South Florida, US South Region, USA) |
451,000 ac | 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) |
27,692 ac | 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… |
| Lake June in Winter, FL (Florida, South Florida, US South Region, USA) |
3,700 ac | 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 Wales Ridge and Crooked Lake (East Central Florida, Florida, South Florida, US South Region, USA, West Central Florida) |
3,552 ac | 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 Placid, FL (Florida, South Florida, US South Region, USA) |
3,320 ac | 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 Trafford (Florida, South Florida, US South Region, USA, West Central Florida) |
1,515 ac | Lake Trafford, a 1500-acre lake in Florida’s southwest region, is an example of ecological revitalization; its demise was arrested and reversed in jus… |
| Lake Huntley, FL (Florida, South Florida, US South Region, USA) |
680 ac | 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 Sebring, FL (Florida, South Florida, US South Region, USA) |
494 ac | 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… |
| Deep Lake, FL (Florida, South Florida, US South Region, USA) |
2 ac | 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… |