Average Annual Snowfall in Oregon

The tables below give yearly averages for snowfall at cities and other locations in Oregon. The numbers are for the total amount of snow and for how many days it snows at least 0.1 inches (0.25 centimetres).

The snowfall totals are annual averages based on weather data collected from 1991 to 2020 for the US National Centers for Environmental Information.

You can jump to a separate table for each region of the state: Oregon Coast, Willamette Valley, Cascade Mountains, Central Oregon and Eastern Oregon.

Oregon Coast

Average annual snowfall
Days Place Inches Centi­metres
0.0 Gold Beach 0.0 0.0
0.2 Newport 0.1 0.3
0.6 North Bend 0.2 0.5
0.0 Port Orford 0.0 0.0
0.0 Seaside 0.0 0.0
0.2 Tillamook 0.2 0.5

Willamette Valley

Yearly snow averages
Days Place Inches Centi­metres
1.8 Corvallis 2.9 7.4
2.6 Portland 3.4 8.6

Cascade Mountains

Average total snowfall for a year
Days Place Inches Centi­metres
100.7 Crater Lake Park 463.1 1176.3
4.5 Detroit Lake Dam 10.2 25.9
58.3 Government Camp 232.5 590.6
1.3 Grants Pass 0.9 2.3
44.7 Howard Prairie Lake Dam 117.6 298.7
26.3 Lakeview 55.3 140.5
3.7 Medford 3.4 8.6
0.0 Roseburg 0.0 0.0
2.4 Three Lynx 5.0 12.7
8.8 Toketee Falls 20.8 52.8
37.5 Wickiup Reservoir Dam 73.9 187.7

Central Oregon

Average annual snowfall
Days Place Inches Centi­metres
13.9 Bend 21.6 54.9
9.6 Hood River 17.2 43.7
8.3 Madras 14.1 35.8
4.4 The Dalles 5.5 14.0

Eastern Oregon

Snowfall averages for a year
Days Place Inches Centi­metres
8.4 Heppner 12.8 32.5
11.1 La Grande 9.4 23.9
3.6 Lake Owyhee Dam 6.0 15.2
12.1 Pendleton 18.0 45.7
4.2 Summer Lake 7.4 18.8
Reference

NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information (NCEI). Climate Normals.

Oregon Snowfall
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