United States

Devil's Head Ski Area

Off season

No snow yet. Snow depth and the seven-day outlook appear once snow is on the ground or forecast.

Typical snowfall
70cm

A weather-model figure, worked out the same way for every ski area, and lower than what actually falls. Use it to compare ski areas, not against the resort’s own totals. How we measure →

Elevation
283–434 m
Across
1.9 km

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.

Devil's Head Ski Area, in United States, runs from 283 m at the base to 434 m at the top. Its mapped area is about 1.9 km across, with 23 marked runs and 8 lifts (about 10 km of piste in all).

Over the last twelve winters the ERA5 weather model gives it 70 cm of snowfall a season, 2,666th (tied) of 3,069 worldwide and 465th in the United States. It swings a lot from year to year: the biggest winter, 2022/23 (113 cm), brought more than twice as much as the leanest, 2017/18 (45 cm). January is usually the snowiest month, with about 20 cm.

How much snow it gets

Modelled from weather data the same way at all 3,069 ski areas we cover. These are not the resort’s own published figures.

Seasonal snowfall
70cm
per season
Worst of 12 winters
45cm
The middle winter of the 12: 68 cm. The best: 113 cm.
World rank
2666
of 3,069 worldwide
Rank in country
465
of 534 in United States
Elevation rank
354
Highest to lowest, of 534 in United States. The centre point sits at 371 m, 157 m below the national median.

Compared with what is nearby

Within 50 km in a straight line. Ski areas in the same weather-model cell (about 30 km across) get the same figure.

Ski areaDistanceSeasonal snowfallWorld rank
Cascade Mountain13.0 km68 cm2677
Christmas Mountain28.0 km68 cm2677
Blackhawk Ski Club38.0 km68 cm2677
Tyrol Basin Ski And Snowboard Area44.0 km68 cm2677

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
23
Run length
10km
Lifts
8
Vertical
151m
Top 434 m · base 283 m

Run map

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

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Slope shape, difficulty and lift types

The shape of the mountain

Longest run on the map0.9 km
Steepest pitch21°measured over at least 30 m
Average gradient of the runs7.4°

Which way the slopes face

North 1%
East 10%
South 83%
West 6%

Only 11% of the vertical on the runs descends to the north or east. The most common direction is south (83%).

By difficulty

Easy 10 · 3.8 km
Intermediate 3 · 2 km
Advanced 10 · 4.5 km

Lift types

  • Chairlift6
  • Magic carpet2

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.

When it falls, and how winters differ

Month by month

The most snow falls in January. March brings 75% of January’s snowfall. That is a steeper fall than the median for ski areas in the United States (85%): the snow here is concentrated early in the season. In amount, March brings 15 cm, less than the median of 30 cm.

18cm
Dec
20cm
Jan
17cm
Feb
15cm
Mar
Average snowfall by month, last 12 winters

Winter by winter

Across the 12 winters measured, the average is 70 cm, and 7 of them fell short of it. The leanest was 2017/18 with 45 cm; the biggest was 2022/23 with 113 cm (2.5 times as much). For 33% of the 534 ski areas in the United States the leanest winter was 2015/16; here it was a different one.

46
78
73
45
100
76
69
66
113
65
50
54
14/1515/1616/1717/1818/1919/2020/2121/2222/2323/2424/2525/26

Snowfall each winter (December–March total). The dashed line is the average; the numbers mark the leanest and the biggest winter.

Map

The weather map, and where it sits among nearby ski areas.

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