Greene County, AL Roof Snow Load - 5 psf
Greene County, AL roof snow load, translated
A typical heated home in Greene County is designed to carry 5 pounds per square foot of snow on its roof, per ASCE 7-22. ASCE 7's low-slope-roof minimum (§7.3.4) raises the governing figure to 5 psf - higher than the 3.5 psf the ground-load formula alone would give, and the code says use the larger one.
On a roof that means 11 in. of fresh snow, 4 in. once it packs down, or 1 in. of solid ice - three very different piles for the same load. A modest addition to standard roof loading. Ordinary residential construction handles this without extra bracing.
Greene County at a glance
- Design roof snow load5 psf
- Ground snow load, ASCE 7 map5 psf
- National rank#2,417 of 2,758
- Alabama rank#58 of 67
- Population7,127
- Annual snowfall, NOAA normal0 in.
- FIPS01063
Where Greene County ranks
#58 of 67 Alabama counties by design load, top 88% of 2,758 nationally - that's Greene County's spot. Alabama counties average 5.6 psf; Greene County runs 0.6 psf lower than that.
FIPS 01063, population 7,127, centered near 32.8445°N 87.9642°W. ASCE 7's underlying ground snow load here is 5 psf before the code's exposure and importance factors bring it to the 5 psf design figure above.
Greene County: average annual snowfall
Greene County sees about 0 in. of snow most winters, per the WARRIOR L&D, AL US station's 1991-2020 NOAA normal. See the density guide.
Read this before you use Greene 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. See the methodology guide.