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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 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.
McCall Activity Barn is a ski area in United States, at about 1,517 m. Its mapped area is about 1.7 km across.
Over the last twelve winters the ERA5 weather model gives it 234 cm of snowfall a season, 832nd (tied) of 3,069 worldwide and 61st in the United States. Its winters are fairly steady; even the leanest, 2014/15 (178 cm), reached 76% of the average. December brings as much snow as January here (74 and 55 cm on average).
Modelled from weather data the same way at all 3,069 ski areas we cover. These are not the resort’s own published figures.
Within 50 km in a straight line. Ski areas in the same weather-model cell (about 30 km across) get the same figure.
| Ski area | Distance | Seasonal snowfall | World rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Little Ski Hill | 7.6 km | 232 cm | 853 |
| Jug Mountain Ranch Winter Trails | 8.5 km | 273 cm | 602 |
| Bear Basin Nordic Center | 9.0 km | 301 cm | 476 |
| Brundage Mountain | 15.0 km | 321 cm | 401 |
| Tamarack Resort | 21.0 km | 291 cm | 514 |
Counted from the marked runs and lifts on the map, within 2.5 km of the centre of the ski area. These are not the resort’s own published figures.
Source: OpenStreetMap (ODbL 1.0). How finely ski areas are drawn varies by region, so treat the counts as indicative. Difficulty uses the European grades, which do not map onto North American green / blue / black.
The most snow falls in December. March brings 78% of January’s snowfall. That is in line with the median for ski areas in the United States (85%). In amount, March brings 43 cm, more than the median of 30 cm.
Across the 12 winters measured, the average is 234 cm, and 6 of them fell short of it. The leanest was 2014/15 with 178 cm; the biggest was 2015/16 with 325 cm (1.8 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.
Snowfall each winter (December–March total). The dashed line is the average; the numbers mark the leanest and the biggest winter.
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The weather map, and where it sits among nearby ski areas.
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