2026 Forest River Viking262DBS

The Viking 262DBS has 1,632 lbs of cargo capacity between 6,093 lbs dry and its 7,725 lbs GVWR, 21% of that rating; filling its 40-gallon fresh tank at 8.3 lb a gallon uses 332 lbs of it (how to read trailer weights).

Tongue weight is 725 lbs, 12% of the dry weight as published; it rises as the trailer is loaded and counts against the tow vehicle’s tongue-weight and payload limits (tongue weight by size).

Off hookups: 96 gallons of grey and black capacity against 40 gallons of fresh water, so fresh water runs out first (tank sizes by length).

Against the rest of the Viking roster this is the 13th of 16 floorplans by dry weight, in a line that runs from 2,499 lbs to 8,052 lbs. It sits in the heavier third of the line.

Plan the tow on loaded weight, not the 6,093 lbs dry figure: half the published cargo capacity brings this plan to about 6,909 lbs, and the published GVWR of 7,725 lbs is the limit (how to read trailer weights).

Forest River’s line listing and this floorplan’s own factory page agree on all 4 shared figures. Dry weight plus cargo capacity equals the published GVWR exactly. A missing row means Forest River does not publish that figure (how figures are verified).

Forest River publishes no floorplan description for this plan in the channel this page is built from - only the numeric specification block. Rather than describe a layout from the floorplan code, which would be a guess dressed as a fact, this page carries what the factory publishes and says where it stops. 262DBS is a Viking designation and this site does not decode it into a layout claim.

How the 262DBS differs from the other fifteen Viking floorplans. Most distinctive first. Sibling pages may cover other model years than this one (2026). How these ranks are worked out.

• Dry weight, 6,093 lb: fourth-heaviest of sixteen, between the 25TH (5,550 lb) and the 292TB (6,903 lb).
• Length, 31 ft 11 in: fourth-longest of sixteen, between the 25QBH (30 ft 5 in) and the 30RKDS (36 ft 5 in).
• GVWR, 7,725 lb: fifth-highest of sixteen, between the 242MK (7,700 lb) and the 25TH (7,900 lb).
• Cargo capacity as a share of GVWR, 21.1%: fifth-smallest of sixteen, between the 17FQ (19.9%) and the 17BH (21.4%).
• Tongue weight, 725 lb: fifth-heaviest of sixteen, between the 242MK (700 lb) and the 292TB (845 lb).
• Tongue weight as a share of dry weight, 11.9%: fifth-smallest of sixteen, between the 17BH (11.2%) and the 292TB (12.2%).
• Grey tank, 64 gal: shared with the 25QBH; of sixteen, twelve smaller and two larger, nearest the 25TH (44 gal) and the 30RKDS (74 gal).
• Cargo capacity, 1,632 lb: eighth-smallest of sixteen, between the 12BH (1,469 lb) and the 30RKDS (1,948 lb).
• Exterior height, 11 ft: shared with the 22BHSR, 242MK and four others; of sixteen, eight lower and one taller, nearest the 25TH (10 ft 7 in) and the 30RKDS (11 ft 3 in).
• Fresh tank, 40 gal: largest of sixteen, level with the 18BH, 22BHSR and five others; next is the 18DBS (39 gal).

Next to the 25TH (2027 page), the nearest lighter floorplan by dry weight, the 262DBS is 543 lb heavier by dry weight, has a GVWR 175 lb lower, has 718 lb less cargo capacity, has a tongue weight 207 lb lighter, is 1 ft 11 in longer, stands 5 in taller, has a fresh tank 2 gal larger, has a grey tank 20 gal larger and has a black tank 4 gal larger.

Next to the 292TB, the nearest heavier floorplan by dry weight, the 262DBS is 810 lb lighter by dry weight, has a GVWR 1,920 lb lower, has 1,110 lb less cargo capacity, has a tongue weight 120 lb lighter, is 4 ft 9 in shorter and has a grey tank 37 gal smaller; the two publish the same exterior height, fresh tank and black tank.

Viking is organised by weight rather than by layout, and the factory names the groupings accordingly: 3K, 4K, 5K and 6K Series. That makes it the most readable roster in this group for anyone shopping to a tow limit, because the series name is the weight class. Eighteen floorplans run 2,499 to 7,208 lb dry on lengths of 16 feet to 36 feet 8 inches, with tongue weights of 325 to 930 lb.

A full 40-gallon fresh tank is about 332 lb of water (water counts as cargo: 49 CFR 571.110 S9.3.2), 20% of the 262DBS’s 1,632 lb cargo capacity, leaving 1,300 lb. Across 16 Viking floorplans the water share runs 11% to 55%, and 7 give up more than this one. Nearest on that share: Viking 30RKDS at 16% and Viking 12BH at 21%. Your own unit’s figure is on the label inside its entry door (49 CFR 571.110 S9.3.3).