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Buck Hill

10 / 100 Powder Score
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Buck Hill is a ski area in United States. It sits at about 328 m above sea level. The mapped ski area covers about 0.8 km². Within 2.5 km of the centre, the map shows 17 marked runs and 12 lifts, totalling about 3.3 km of piste. Over the last three winters the ERA5 reanalysis gives it 51 cm of snowfall a season, 2797th (tied) of the 3,112 ski areas we measure worldwide. The model runs well below what resorts report, so the ranking is the meaningful part rather than the centimetre figure. 1 official live camera is linked below. 9 other ski areas lie within 120 km. Snow figures and the Powder Score are recalculated every day.

Snow 24h
0cm
Snow 48h
0cm
Next 24h
0cm
Next 72h
0cm
Temperature
15.9℃
Max wind
17.2km/h
Elevation
328m
Area
0.8km²

Elevation of the ski area’s centre point, taken from a digital elevation model. It is not the base-to-summit range.

We do not show a snow depth here. The weather model we use reports snow lying on the ground — it knows nothing about grooming or snowmaking, and it is not the base depth a ski area publishes. In Japan we can check our figures against 234 weather stations. Outside Japan there is nothing to check them against, so we do not print a number we have not verified. Snow report on the official site ↗

Score breakdown

Fresh (48h) 0/40
Forecast (24h) 0/25
Snow quality 0/20
Wind 8/10
Base 2/5

Powder Score v1.0.0

7-day outlook

Date Snow Temp Wind
🌧️ 26 Sept 0 14 / 15.8 19.3
☁️ 27 Sept 0 14.3 / 20 14.6
☁️ 28 Sept 0 15.3 / 23 19.8
🌦️ 29 Sept 0 14.1 / 17.5 17.3
☁️ 30 Sept 0 12.9 / 23.6 11.5
☁️ 1 Oct 0 12.9 / 20.6 16.3
🌦️ 2 Oct 0 9.6 / 17.5 20.8

Runs and lifts

Counted from the runs and lifts drawn on OpenStreetMap, within the boundary of the ski area. These are not the resort’s own published figures.

Marked runs
14
Run length
2.9km
Lifts
12
Vertical
77m
Top 368 m · base 291 m

Run map

NoviceEasyIntermediateAdvancedOther Lift
North is up. Runs are coloured by difficulty; black lines are lifts.
Run map

Drag to move around, and use + and − to zoom. On a phone, swipe to move and pinch to zoom in further.

The shape of the mountain

Longest run on the map0.4 km
Steepest pitch15°measured over at least 30 m
Average gradient of the runs10°

Which way the slopes face

North 12%
East 87%
South 2%
West 0%

99% of the vertical on the runs descends to the north or east. Those slopes get the least sun, so the snow lasts longer.

By difficulty

Novice 1
Easy 4
Intermediate 5
Advanced 2
Other 2

Lift types

  • Magic carpet5
  • Rope tow4
  • Chairlift3

See past trail maps on Skimap.org ↗

Source: OpenSkiMap (© OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL 1.0). How finely ski areas are drawn varies by region, so treat the counts as indicative. Vertical is the difference between the highest and lowest points of the mapped runs and lifts.

Live Cameras

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How much snow it gets

Measured by us across 3,112 ski areas by one identical method. These are not the resort’s own published figures.

Seasonal snowfall
51 cm
per season
Range over three winters
38 cm
38–76 cm. The best winter was 2.0x the worst.
World rank
2797
of 3,112 worldwide
Rank in country
501
of 541 in United States
Elevation rank
397
Highest to lowest, of 541 in United States. The centre point sits at 328 m, 206 m below the national median.

Compared with what is nearby

Within 50 km straight line. Measured the same way, so the ranks compare directly. Ski areas a few kilometres apart share a weather grid cell and can return the same figure.

Ski areaDistanceSeasonal snowfallWorld rank
Hyland Hills Ski Area15 km51 cm2797
Afton Alps42 km57 cm2735
Welch Village48 km58 cm2727

When it falls, and how winters differ

Month by month

Month by month, the most snow falls in December. March brings as much as January, or more. In amount, March brings 17 cm, less than the median of 30 cm.

18cm
Dec
16cm
Jan
16cm
Feb
17cm
Mar
Average snowfall by month, last 12 winters

Map

Where it sits relative to nearby resorts. For a piste map, see the official site.

Official piste map ↗

More places to look

Updated: 26 Sept 2026, 23:28

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