El Dorado County, CA Roof Snow Load - Case Study Area
El Dorado County, CA: no map figure, on purpose
ASCE 7's own snow load map has no single figure for El Dorado County: the terrain is complex enough that the code (§7.2) requires an elevation-specific study rather than a county-wide value. That is the map being accurate, not a data gap.
FIPS 06017, population 192,823. 386 US counties get this same case-study treatment; El Dorado County is one of them.
El Dorado County, CA: quick facts
- Population192,823
- Annual snowfall, NOAA normal58.2 in.
- FIPS06017
El Dorado County: average annual snowfall
El Dorado County sees about 58.2 in. of snow most winters, per the PACIFIC HOUSE, CA US station's 1991-2020 NOAA normal. See the density guide.
Read this before you use El Dorado County's figure
The figure above assumes the case ASCE 7-22 treats as typical: a heated, ordinary-occupancy home on a partially exposed site. Change any of those - exposure, heating, roof pitch, occupancy category - and the real design number moves.
A building permit needs the number at your exact address, not the county average - the free ASCE 7 Hazard Tool returns that from your coordinates in about a minute and produces a PDF a plan reviewer will accept. (How this figure is calculated.)