#1Boone
Watauga County · 19,929 people10 days a year with an inch or more·Boone 1 SE station, 2 km
Boone, #1 on this list · Photo: Jeremy Mikkola from Boone, NC · CC BY 2.0North Carolina rankings · Climate
Snowiest towns in North Carolina
Boone gets the most snow of North Carolina’s 215 towns of 2,500+ with a snow record: about 26 inches in a normal winter at its NOAA station. Anderson Creek gets the least, about 1 inches; 0 of the 215 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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#T2Asheville
Buncombe County · 93,523 people3 days a year with an inch or more·Asheville station, 3 km
Emma
unincorporated, Buncombe County · 2,657 people3 days a year with an inch or more·Asheville station, 4 km
All 215 towns
Snow in a normal winter, most first. Towns that share a station share its figure and rank (T = tied; 184 towns here share a station).
215 towns ranked. Not here? See why a town may be missing.
#TownSnow a yearDays with 1″+NOAA station
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.
Quick answers
Questions people ask
Which North Carolina town gets the most snow?
Boone (Watauga County), about 26 inches in a normal winter at the Boone 1 SE station.
What part of North Carolina gets the least amount of snow?
Among towns of 2,500+, the least snow falls in Anderson Creek (Harnett County, about 1 in), Barbecue (, about 1 in), Fairfield Harbour (Craven County, about 1 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 (290 in North Carolina) whose nearest station has a snow normal of an inch or more; 75 have no station with a snow record. Smaller towns show their snow on their own Climate page.
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