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Kirkwood Mountain Resort

5 / 100 Powder Score

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Kirkwood Mountain Resort is a ski area in United States. The terrain spans roughly 2527–2527 m above sea level. The mapped ski area covers about 5.8 km². Within 3.4 km of the centre, the map shows 62 marked runs and 13 lifts, totalling about 43 km of piste. Over the last three winters the ERA5 reanalysis gives it 484 cm of snowfall a season, 80th (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. The nearest city of any size is Reno, about 98 km away. 16 other ski areas lie within 120 km. Snow figures and the Powder Score are recalculated every day.

Snow 24h

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Snow 48h

0cm

Next 24h

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Next 72h

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Temperature

8.1℃

Max wind

34.3km/h

Elevation (est.)

2527–2527m

Area

5.8km²

Elevation range is estimated by sampling points across the ski area.

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.

Score breakdown

Fresh (48h) 0/40

Forecast (24h) 0/25

Snow quality 0/20

Wind 3/10

Base 2/5

Powder Score v1.0.0

7-day outlook

Date	Temp	Wind
☁️ 26 Sept	5.5 / 14.6	39.2
☁️ 27 Sept	2.8 / 11.5	34.3
☁️ 28 Sept	2.1 / 13.6	17.1
☁️ 29 Sept	2.3 / 20.1	12.8
☀️ 30 Sept	6.5 / 23.3	15.3
🌤️ 1 Oct	7.5 / 20.7	18.6
☁️ 2 Oct	7.6 / 20.4	14.1

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

Run length

37km

Lifts

Vertical

505m

Top 2,886 m · base 2,382 m

Run map

EasyIntermediateAdvanced Lift

North is up. Runs are coloured by difficulty; black lines are lifts.

The shape of the mountain

Longest run on the map1.6 km

Steepest pitch35°measured over at least 30 m

Average gradient of the runs14°

Which way the slopes face

North 48%

East 47%

South 1%

West 3%

95% 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

Easy 6

Intermediate 16

Advanced 28

Lift types

Chairlift10
Magic carpet2
T-bar1

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.

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

484 cm

per season

Range over three winters

198 cm

387–585 cm. The best winter was 1.5x the worst.

World rank

of 3,112 worldwide

Rank in country

of 541 in United States

Elevation rank

Highest to lowest, of 541 in United States. The centre point sits at 2,527 m, 1,993 m above 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 area	Distance	Seasonal snowfall	World rank
Sierra-at-Tahoe Ski Resort	13 km	465 cm	103
Bear Valley	21 km	509 cm	69
Bear Valley Adventure Company	25 km	509 cm	69
Heavenly Mountain Resort	32 km	268 cm	628
Homewood Snowcat Adventures	45 km	477 cm	84

When it falls, and how winters differ

Month by month

Month by month, the most snow falls in January. March brings 93% of January’s snowfall. That is a gentler fall than the median for ski areas in the United States (85%). In amount, March brings 137 cm, more than the median of 30 cm.

144cm

Dec

148cm

Jan

137cm

Feb

137cm

Mar

Average snowfall by month, last 12 winters