Gooding County, ID Roof Snow Load - Case Study Area
Gooding County, ID: no map figure, on purpose
Gooding County sits in the mountain-west terrain where ASCE 7-22 §7.2 itself declines to give a contour figure - elevation changes too fast over short distances there for one number per county to mean anything. The code requires a site-specific study for a building here, not a look-up.
Gooding County, FIPS 16047, is home to 16,189 people - one of 386 US counties ASCE 7 itself routes around a map figure for.
Gooding County, ID: quick facts
- Population16,189
- Annual snowfall, NOAA normal28.6 in.
- FIPS16047
How much it actually snows in Gooding County
Most winters bring Gooding County roughly 28.6 in. of snow - NOAA's normal at RICHFIELD, ID US, 34.1 mi off. Worth noting: the nearest station reporting snowfall normals sits 34.1 mi from Gooding County's center, so treat this as a regional figure rather than an exact one. (fresh vs. packed vs. ice explains why.)
Read this before you rely on it
Gooding County's number above is ASCE 7-22's default case, not a custom calculation: ordinary residential occupancy, heated, sited on ground that's neither fully sheltered nor fully exposed. Any one of those changing - pitch, exposure, heating, occupancy - moves the real figure.
Nothing here substitutes for an address-level number. Get one free, in about a minute, from the ASCE 7 Hazard Tool using your own coordinates rather than Gooding County's county-wide figure. (How this figure is calculated.)