Canada

Fort Nelson Demonstration Forest Recreation Site

41 / 100 Powder Score
Fair Weather Clear
Official site
Snow 48h
5cm
Next 72h
0cm

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 →

Snow 24h
0 cm
Next 24h
0 cm
Temperature
−4°C
Max wind
7 km/h
Elevation
434 m
Across
3.7 km

Updated: 10 Nov 2026, 12:15

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 ↗

7-day outlook

Date Weather Snow (cm) Low / high (°C) Wind (km/h)
Mon 9 Nov Cloudy 0 −7 to 0 9
Tue 10 Nov Drizzle 0 −7 to −1 6
Wed 11 Nov Fog 0 −7 to 5 17
Thu 12 Nov Cloudy 0 −5 to 3 10
Fri 13 Nov Fog 0 −7 to 0 5
Sat 14 Nov Fog 0 −2 to 0 5
Sun 15 Nov Cloudy 0 −2 to 1 6

Score breakdown

Fresh (48h) 13/40
Forecast (24h) 0/25
Snow quality 16/20
Wind 10/10
Base 2/5

The five add up to the 100-point Powder Score: more fresh snow, more on the way and colder air all push it up. How we measure

Fort Nelson Demonstration Forest Recreation Site is a ski area in Canada, at about 434 m. Its mapped area is about 3.7 km across.

Over the last twelve winters the ERA5 weather model gives it 61 cm of snowfall a season, 2,738th (tied) of 3,069 worldwide and 163rd in Canada. It swings a lot from year to year: the biggest winter, 2025/26 (107 cm), brought more than 3 times as much as the leanest, 2023/24 (28 cm). March still brings 16 cm on average, close to January, its snowiest month.

Live cameras

This ski area does not put a camera on its own slopes. What follows are nearby cameras, not the pistes themselves.

Footage remains the copyright of each operator. JAPANSNOWLINE neither stores nor redistributes it.

Some cameras here are provided by Windy.com. Footage plays in Windy’s own player; we do not store it. Windy.com

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
61cm
per season
Worst of 12 winters
28cm
The middle winter of the 12: 59 cm. The best: 107 cm.
World rank
2738
of 3,069 worldwide
Rank in country
163
of 171 in Canada
Elevation rank
100
Highest to lowest, of 171 in Canada. The centre point sits at 434 m, 103 m below the national median.

When it falls, and how winters differ

Month by month

The most snow falls in January. March brings as much as January, or more. In amount, March brings 16 cm, less than the median of 32 cm.

14cm
Dec
16cm
Jan
15cm
Feb
16cm
Mar
Average snowfall by month, last 12 winters

Winter by winter

Across the 12 winters measured, the average is 61 cm, and 6 of them fell short of it. The leanest was 2023/24 with 28 cm; the biggest was 2025/26 with 107 cm (3.8 times as much). For 28% of the 171 ski areas in Canada the leanest winter was 2014/15; here it was a different one.

62
56
51
67
45
61
64
81
56
28
56
107
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.

Official piste map ↗

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