Virginia Snow Totals

How much snow fell in Virginia: the latest storm's totals by city and from NWS spotters, and the snowiest Virginia cities so far this winter, updated every morning.

Virginia's latest storm came last season, March 17–18, 2026, and brought an estimated 5.2 inches at Richlands, the most of any Virginia city in NOAA's snowfall analysis; spotters measured up to 7.3 inches at 1 W Clintwood, VA. No Virginia city has had measurable snow so far this winter (since October 1, 2026, through November 7, 2026). Last season (2025–26), Bluefield led with an estimated 33.2 inches.

Latest storm: March 17–18, 2026

Snow totals for the latest storm in Virginia, the 24-hour periods ending the morning of March 17–18, 2026. NOAA estimates are the value at each city's center; spotter reports are what observers measured at one spot, often a storm total.

Day pages: Mar 17, 2026 Mar 18, 2026

Most snow last season in Virginia (2025–26)

No Virginia city has had measurable snow yet this season. Last season's totals, NOAA estimates at each city's center:

Snow days in Virginia since October 2025

Days when NOAA's analysis put an inch or more in at least one Virginia county.

All Virginia cities with snow since October 2025

Abingdon Alexandria Altavista Ashland Bedford Berryville Big Stone Gap Blacksburg Blackstone Bluefield Bridgewater Bristol Broadway Buena Vista Charlottesville Chesapeake Chincoteague Christiansburg Clifton Forge Colonial Beach Colonial Heights Covington Culpeper Danville Dublin Dumfries Elkton Emporia Fairfax Falls Church Farmville Franklin Fredericksburg Front Royal Galax Grottoes Hampton Harrisonburg Herndon Hillsville Hopewell Lebanon Leesburg Lexington Lovettsville Luray Lynchburg Manassas Manassas Park Marion Martinsville Newport News Norfolk Norton Orange Pearisburg Petersburg Poquoson Portsmouth Pulaski Purcellville Radford Richlands Richmond Roanoke Rocky Mount Salem Smithfield South Boston South Hill Staunton Strasburg Suffolk Tazewell Timberville Vienna Vinton Virginia Beach Warrenton Waynesboro West Point Williamsburg Winchester Windsor Wise Woodstock Wytheville

National standings: snowiest US cities this winter.

Sources

Weather stations: NOAA NCEI Global Historical Climatology Network – Daily (GHCN-Daily), daily snowfall (element SNOW) from NCEI's data service. Recent days are preliminary; values NCEI's checks flag are left out. Normals are each station's average snowfall per calendar date over its normals period (1991–2020 for most stations). Estimates: NOAA National Operational Hydrologic Remote Sensing Center (NOHRSC), National Snowfall Analysis, 24-hour totals on a 4-km grid, at the city's Census center point. These are estimated, not measured.

Spotter reports: National Weather Service Local Storm Reports (LSRs): measurements sent to NWS offices by trained storm spotters, CoCoRaHS and co-op observers, NWS staff, the public and others, archived by the Iowa Environmental Mesonet (Iowa State University). Reports are what each observer measured at one spot, often a storm total so far, and the NWS doesn't quality-check every one. Exact repeats count once.

These are our own summaries of public NOAA data; NOAA has not reviewed them. Source: National Storms (nationalstorms.com), CC BY 4.0, data from NOAA NCEI GHCN-Daily, NOAA NOHRSC and NWS Local Storm Reports via the Iowa Environmental Mesonet.