MPR’s Dan Kraker reports on record water levels on Rainy Lake, where homes are flooding, docks are under 5 to 6 feet of water, and roads and campsites are closed along the Canadian border as residents continue to battle rising floodwaters.

Fueled by a heavy winter snowpack, a late ice-out, and drenching spring rains, water levels soared in the Rainy River basin in 2022. The basin flows northwest from the Boundary Waters Canoe Area, to Lake Vermilion near Ely and Tower, to the huge border lakes surrounding Voyageurs National Park and beyond. Rainy Lake crested at 1,113.2 feet above sea level, 2.5 inches above the past record set in 1950.