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The snowiest ZIP codes in Ohio

1,229 of 1,233 Ohio ZIP codes have a figure; the median one has 24 inches a year.

Open this topic on the map Climate by ZIP code

Ohio's snow does not fall evenly. The counties closest to Lake Erie's eastern shore sit in the snowbelt, where cold air crossing the open lake picks up moisture and drops it as lake-effect snow the moment it reaches land, sometimes feet of it in one band while a town twenty miles inland stays dry. Move away from the lake and south toward the Ohio River, and average snowfall drops off sharply.

This ranks the 25 snowiest Ohio ZIP codes by average annual snowfall at the nearest weather station to each one's population center, using NOAA's thirty-year climate normals. A single winter can run well above or below that normal in either direction; this is what a typical year looks like, not a forecast.

Across the state

One dot per ZIP code, colored the way the map colors this topic; larger dots are more populous ZIP codes.

Under 20 inches of snow a year (426) 20 to 30 inches (467) 30 to 45 inches (141) 45 to 70 inches (156) 70 inches or more (39) No data (4)

The 25 snowiest ZIP codes

Highest first; every ZIP code links to its own page.

  1. 44022 · Chagrin FallsCuyahoga County114 inches a year
  2. 44024 · Munson Township and ChardonGeauga County114 inches a year
  3. 44026 · Chester Township and ChesterlandGeauga County114 inches a year
  4. 44040 · Gates MillsCuyahoga County114 inches a year
  5. 44045 · Grand RiverLake County114 inches a year
  6. 44046 · Huntsburg Township and HuntsburgGeauga County114 inches a year
  7. 44057 · Madison Township and MadisonLake County114 inches a year
  8. 44060 · MentorLake County114 inches a year
  9. 44064 · Montville Township and MontvilleGeauga County114 inches a year
  10. 44065 · Newbury Township and NewburyGeauga County114 inches a year
  11. 44072 · Russell Township and NoveltyGeauga County114 inches a year
  12. 44077 · PainesvilleLake County114 inches a year
  13. 44081 · Perry Township and PerryLake County114 inches a year
  14. 44086 · Thompson Township and ThompsonGeauga County114 inches a year
  15. 44092 · WickliffeLake County114 inches a year
  16. 44094 · WilloughbyLake County114 inches a year
  17. 44095 · EastlakeLake County114 inches a year
  18. 44099 · Windsor Township and WindsorAshtabula County114 inches a year
  19. 44117 · EuclidCuyahoga County114 inches a year
  20. 44119 · ClevelandCuyahoga County114 inches a year
  21. 44121 · South Euclid and ClevelandCuyahoga County114 inches a year
  22. 44123 · EuclidCuyahoga County114 inches a year
  23. 44124 · Mayfield Heights and ClevelandCuyahoga County114 inches a year
  24. 44132 · EuclidCuyahoga County114 inches a year
  25. 44143 · Richmond Heights and ClevelandCuyahoga County114 inches a year

How this was measured

NOAA's 1991-2020 climate normals, the thirty-year averages weather forecasters mean by "normal": annual snowfall on the map, with mean temperature, January lows and July highs, days at 90°F or above and below freezing, rainfall, and heating and cooling degree days on the card. Ohio has 130 stations with temperature normals, 252 with precipitation and only 93 with snowfall, so each ZIP borrows from the nearest station reporting each element and names it. The Lake Erie snowbelt east of Cleveland gets four to five times the snow of the Ohio River counties. The card also carries the county's drought history from the U.S. Drought Monitor: weeks in drought since 2020, the worst spell since 2000 and the current status. NOAA's county series since 1895 gives the long-run warming and the change in yearly rainfall.

1,229 of 1,233 ZIP codes have a figure; ZIP codes without one are left off the list, not counted as zero. Ties are broken by ZIP code.

Every ZIP code's own page carries the full detail behind its figure, and the Climate topic page ranks the whole state.

Sources

NOAA NCEI 1991-2020 U.S. Climate Normals, annual and monthly, 261 Ohio stations; each ZIP takes the nearest station reporting each element from its population-weighted center; U.S. Drought Monitor weekly county statistics 2000 to 2026 (usdmdataservices.unl.edu); NOAA nClimDiv county monthly temperature and precipitation 1895 to 2026 (climdiv-tmpccy and climdiv-pcpncy, September 2026 release).

NOAA climate normals · NOAA climate at a glance · U.S. Drought Monitor

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Ohio Hometown Atlas (Open Shower Co), "The snowiest ZIP codes in Ohio", https://hometownatlas.openshowerco.com/stories/snowiest-zip-codes/, built 2026-09-15, accessed [date].

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Ohio Hometown Atlas (Open Shower Co), "The snowiest ZIP codes in Ohio", https://hometownatlas.openshowerco.com/stories/snowiest-zip-codes/, built 2026-09-15, accessed [date]; Climate from NOAA climate normals.

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