Klamath County, OR Roof Snow Load - Case Study Area
Why doesn't Klamath County have a snow load number?
ASCE 7's own snow load map has no single figure for Klamath 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 41035, population 70,438. 386 US counties get this same case-study treatment; Klamath County is one of them.
Klamath County at a glance
- Population70,438
- Annual snowfall, NOAA normal61 in.
- FIPS41035
Klamath County: average annual snowfall
Klamath County sees about 61 in. of snow most winters, per the CHILOQUIN 12 NW (FORT KLAMATH), OR US station's 1991-2020 NOAA normal. See the density guide.
Read this before you use Klamath 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.