#1L'Anse Township
Baraga County · 3,634 people63 days a year with an inch or more·Herman station, 8 km
L'Anse Township, #1 on this list · Photo: Royalbroil · CC BY-SA 3.0Michigan rankings · Climate
Snowiest towns in Michigan
L'Anse Township gets the most snow of Michigan’s 693 towns of 2,500+ with a snow record: about 208 inches in a normal winter at its NOAA station. Adrian gets the least, about 26 inches; 270 of the 693 average 60 inches or more.
NOAA U.S. Climate Normals, 1991–2020, at each town’s nearest station with a snow record (named in each row). A described list: no letters. How grades work
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#T2Forsyth Township
Marquette County · 6,291 people49 days a year with an inch or more·Marquette station, 34 km
#T2Ishpeming
Marquette County · 6,205 people49 days a year with an inch or more·Marquette station, 12 km
All 693 towns
Snow in a normal winter, most first. Towns that share a station share its figure and rank (T = tied; 671 towns here share a station).
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A station’s normal can differ from the town’s own when the station sits higher or lower; each town’s Climate page names its station and checks it.
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Questions people ask
Which Michigan town gets the most snow?
L'Anse Township (Baraga County), about 208 inches in a normal winter at the Herman station.
What part of Michigan gets the least amount of snow?
Among towns of 2,500+, the least snow falls in Adrian (Lenawee County, about 26 in), Adrian Township (Lenawee County, about 26 in), Blissfield (Lenawee County, about 26 in), on NOAA’s 1991–2020 normals at each town’s station. See the towns with the least snow.
Why isn’t my town on this list?
The list covers towns of 2,500+ residents (701 in Michigan) whose nearest station has a snow normal of an inch or more; 8 have no station with a snow record. Smaller towns show their snow on their own Climate page.
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