Titus County, TX Roof Snow Load - 5 psf
Titus County, TX roof snow load, translated
A typical heated home in Titus County is designed to carry 5 pounds per square foot of snow on its roof, per ASCE 7-22. Flat and low-pitch roofs in Titus County are actually governed by ASCE 7's §7.3.4 minimum of 5 psf, not the 3.5 psf the ground-load formula alone would produce.
On a roof that means 11 in. of fresh snow, 4 in. once it packs down, or 1 in. of solid ice - three very different piles for the same load. A modest addition to standard roof loading. Ordinary residential construction handles this without extra bracing.
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Titus County in numbers
- Design roof snow load5 psf
- Ground snow load, ASCE 7 map5 psf
- National rank#2,232 of 2,758
- Texas rank#107 of 254
- Population31,547
- Annual snowfall, NOAA normal0.6 in.
- FIPS48449
Where Titus County ranks
#107 of 254 Texas counties by design load, top 81% of 2,758 nationally - that's Titus County's spot. 5.4 psf is Texas's typical county figure - Titus County comes in 0.4 psf under it.
FIPS 48449, population 31,547, centered near 33.2146°N 94.9668°W. ASCE 7's underlying ground snow load here is 5 psf before the code's exposure and importance factors bring it to the 5 psf design figure above.
Titus County: average annual snowfall
Titus County sees about 0.6 in. of snow most winters, per the HAGANSPORT, TX US station's 1991-2020 NOAA normal. See the density guide.
Read this before you use Titus 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.