Big Hill Nordic
Big Hill Nordic is a ski area in United States, at about 2,236 m. Its mapped area is about 0.9 km across.
Over the last twelve winters the ERA5 weather model gives it 107 cm of snowfall a season, 2,287th (tied) of 3,069 worldwide and 349th in the United States. Its winters are fairly steady; even the leanest, 2014/15 (78 cm), reached 73% of the average. December brings as much snow as January here (33 and 21 cm on average).
Elevation of the ski area’s centre point, taken from a digital elevation model. It is not the base-to-summit range.
We do not show a snow depth here. The weather model we use reports snow lying on the ground — it knows nothing about grooming or snowmaking, and it is not the base depth a ski area publishes. In Japan we can check our figures against 234 weather stations. Outside Japan there is nothing to check them against, so we do not print a number we have not verified.
Score breakdown
Powder Score v1.0.0
7-day outlook
| Date | Snow | Temp | Wind |
|---|---|---|---|
| ☀️ 7 Oct | 0 | 7.4 / 21.1 | 14 |
| ☁️ 8 Oct | 0 | 9.5 / 20.6 | 20.7 |
| ☁️ 9 Oct | 0 | 9 / 20 | 36.4 |
| ☁️ 10 Oct | 0 | 5.2 / 14.3 | 34.3 |
| 🌨️ 11 Oct | 0.2 | 1.7 / 8.2 | 11.3 |
| 🌨️ 12 Oct | 1.1 | -0.5 / 8.8 | 10 |
| 🌤️ 13 Oct | 0 | 0 / 11.8 | 18.7 |
How much snow it gets
Measured by us across 3,069 ski areas by one identical method. These are not the resort’s own published figures.
Compared with what is nearby
Within 50 km straight line. Measured the same way, so the ranks compare directly. Ski areas a few kilometres apart share a weather grid cell and can return the same figure.
| Ski area | Distance | Seasonal snowfall | World rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Chipmunk Ski Hill | 4.4 km | 100 cm | 2370 |
When it falls, and how winters differ
Month by month
Month by month, the most snow falls in December. March brings as much as January, or more. In amount, March brings 24 cm, less than the median of 30 cm.
Winter by winter
Across the 12 winters measured, the average is 107 cm, and 6 of them fell short of it. The leanest was 2014/15 with 78 cm; the biggest was 2016/17 with 148 cm (1.9 times as much). For 33% of the 534 ski areas in the United States, the leanest winter was the same 2014/15: bad winters tend to hit a whole region at once.
Snowfall each winter (December–March total). The dashed line is the average; the numbers mark the leanest and the biggest winter.
Map
Where it sits relative to nearby resorts. For a piste map, see the official site.
More places to look
Guides covering United States
- Which Famous Ski Resorts Actually Get the Most Snow? 24 Names, Measured Niseko is 526th in the world for snowfall. Zermatt is 554th, Jackson Hole 924th, Aspen 1,201st. Measured identically across 3,069 ski areas, the names everyone books and the places it actually snows turn out to be two different lists.
- A Black Run in Colorado and a Black Run in Austria Are Not the Same Thing. The Maps Prove It. Across 2,888 ski areas: 39% of American runs are graded advanced or harder, and 9% of Austrian ones. Nobody thinks Austria is four times gentler. The grades are measuring different things.
- Niseko vs Whistler: Whistler Is the Outlier, Vail Is the Rule Whistler is the world's 29th snowiest ski area. Vail is 1,335th — and 288 Japanese ski areas get more snow than the resort that defines American skiing.
Updated: 8 Oct 2026, 00:52