Juab County, UT Roof Snow Load - 10 psf
Juab County, UT roof snow load, translated
A typical heated home in Juab County is designed to carry 10 pounds per square foot of snow on its roof, per ASCE 7-22. 7 psf is what the ground-load formula alone gives; Juab County's 10 psf low-slope minimum (§7.3.4) beats it, so that figure is the one that governs on flat and low-pitch roofs.
On a roof that means 22 in. of fresh snow, 8 in. once it packs down, or 2 in. of solid ice - three very different piles for the same load. Standard residential construction handles a load this size without extra bracing; it is a modest addition on top of ordinary roof loading.
Juab County in numbers
- Design roof snow load10 psf
- Ground snow load, ASCE 7 map10 psf
- National rank#1,967 of 2,758
- Utah rank#10 of 10
- Population13,297
- Annual snowfall, NOAA normal25.3 in.
- FIPS49023
Where Juab County ranks
#10 of 10 Utah counties by design load, top 71% of 2,758 nationally - that's Juab County's spot. That's 6.6 psf below Utah's own county-average design load of 16.6 psf.
FIPS 49023, population 13,297, centered near 39.7141°N 112.7905°W. ASCE 7's underlying ground snow load here is 10 psf before the code's exposure and importance factors bring it to the 10 psf design figure above.
Juab County: average annual snowfall
Juab County sees about 25.3 in. of snow most winters, per the DELTA, UT US station's 1991-2020 NOAA normal. Worth noting: the nearest station reporting snowfall normals sits 28.2 mi from Juab County's center, so treat this as a regional figure rather than an exact one. See the density guide.
Read this before you use Juab 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. Details: the calculation guide.