Menifee County, KY Roof Snow Load - 15 psf
Menifee County, KY roof snow load, translated
A typical heated home in Menifee County is designed to carry 15 pounds per square foot of snow on its roof, per ASCE 7-22. Flat and low-pitch roofs in Menifee County are actually governed by ASCE 7's §7.3.4 minimum of 15 psf, not the 10.5 psf the ground-load formula alone would produce.
On a roof that means 33 in. of fresh snow, 12 in. once it packs down, or 3 in. of solid ice - three very different piles for the same load. This is a meaningful design load - most modern-code homes handle it fine, though an addition, a carport or a flat-roofed section can be a weak spot.
Menifee County in numbers
- Design roof snow load15 psf
- Ground snow load, ASCE 7 map15 psf
- National rank#1,593 of 2,758
- Kentucky rank#114 of 120
- Population6,341
- Annual snowfall, NOAA normal12.3 in.
- FIPS21165
Where Menifee County ranks
#114 of 120 Kentucky counties by design load, top 58% of 2,758 nationally - that's Menifee County's spot. Kentucky counties average 15.7 psf; Menifee County runs 0.7 psf lower than that.
FIPS 21165, population 6,341, centered near 37.9355°N 83.5894°W. ASCE 7's underlying ground snow load here is 15 psf before the code's exposure and importance factors bring it to the 15 psf design figure above.
Menifee County: average annual snowfall
Menifee County sees about 12.3 in. of snow most winters, per the CAVE RUN LAKE, KY US station's 1991-2020 NOAA normal. See the density guide.
Read this before you use Menifee 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.