Virginia snow day predictor
Off season - the 10 towns ranked by how much snow they get · Blacksburg averages 25 in a year, Chesapeake 6 in
Virginia towns, ranked
- Blacksburgaverages 25 inches a year · moderate snow
- Leesburgaverages 21 inches a year · moderate snow
- Manassasaverages 21 inches a year · moderate snow
- Harrisonburgaverages 19 inches a year · moderate snow
- Charlottesvilleaverages 17 inches a year · occasional snow
- Roanokeaverages 15 inches a year · occasional snow
- Alexandriaaverages 14 inches a year · occasional snow
- Lynchburgaverages 12 inches a year · occasional snow
- Richmondaverages 9 inches a year · occasional snow
- Chesapeakeaverages 6 inches a year · occasional snow
How snow days work in Virginia
There is no single Virginia snow day threshold, which is why this page scores each town separately. Blacksburg averages 25 inches of snow a year against Chesapeake’s 6, and a district that plans for the first amount does not close for weather that would shut the second one down.
Each score compares what the National Weather Service is forecasting against that town’s own NOAA 1991-2020 snowfall normal, then adds weight for ice, wind and dangerous cold. Every number on this page links through to the full factor breakdown, because the reasoning is the part worth checking.
Sources: National Weather Service forecasts, one per town. Snowfall normals from NOAA’s 1991-2020 US Climate Normals. County lines from the US Census Bureau.