Lake Lanier Deaths Total 2024 Deaths Total. Unfortunately, this is not the highest number of deaths that lake lanier has seen in a single year. The georgia department of natural resources law enforcement division's data shows that 216 people have died at lake lanier between 1994 and 2022.
In 1999 alone, 11 people died in lake lanier, while 2011 and 2014 saw 10. From 2013 to 2018 at lake allatoona, a reservoir in northwest georgia, 20 people drowned.