How Snow Accumulation Affects Your Building’s Structure Over Time?

suburban house stands covered in snow with icicles hanging from the roof, while the sunlight casts shadows on the white winter landscape

Even light, fluffy flakes turn into tonnes of pressure once they pile up. Snow load is the downward force exerted on a structure by accumulated snow and ice. In Canada, codes set minimum design loads, but storms often push those limits. Granular snow at -5 °C can weigh ≈ 160 kg/m²; wet spring snow can…

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