Santa Fe County, NM Roof Snow Load - Case Study Area
What "Case Study" means for Santa Fe County
Santa Fe 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.
Santa Fe County, FIPS 35049, is home to 157,765 people - one of 386 US counties ASCE 7 itself routes around a map figure for.
Santa Fe County at a glance
- Population157,765
- Annual snowfall, NOAA normal26.3 in.
- FIPS35049
How much it actually snows in Santa Fe County
Most winters bring Santa Fe County roughly 26.3 in. of snow - NOAA's normal at PECOS NM, NM US, 15.7 mi off. (fresh vs. packed vs. ice explains why.)
Read this before you rely on it
Santa Fe 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 Santa Fe County's county-wide figure. (How this figure is calculated.)