Lake County, OH Roof Snow Load - Case Study Area
Lake County, OH: no map figure, on purpose
Lake 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.
Lake County, FIPS 39085, is home to 232,360 people - one of 386 US counties ASCE 7 itself routes around a map figure for.
Lake County in numbers
- Population232,360
- Annual snowfall, NOAA normal89.9 in.
- FIPS39085
How much it actually snows in Lake County
Most winters bring Lake County roughly 89.9 in. of snow - NOAA's normal at DORSET, OH US, 28.1 mi off. That station is far enough away (28.1 mi) that local snowfall - especially at a different elevation or near a lake - can run noticeably higher or lower than this figure. (fresh vs. packed vs. ice explains why.)
Read this before you rely on it
Lake 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 Lake County's county-wide figure. See the methodology guide.