Beaver Dam, Wisconsin, 3,061 students in 8 schools

Beaver Dam School District Snow Day Predictor

Q: How much snow does Beaver Dam get?

About 41.9 inches a winter at a NOAA weather station 2 miles away, averaged over 10 winters. Between December 1 and March 31 that brings 6 weekday mornings a year with 2 inches of new snow or more, and 1.7 with 4 inches or more.

Q: What was the biggest snow day near Beaver Dam?

10 inches on January 13, 2024, the largest single day at a NOAA weather station 2 miles away in 10 winters. The snowiest winter was 2022 to 2023, with 58 inches.

Q: How does the Beaver Dam snow day predictor work?

It reads the National Weather Service forecast for Beaver Dam through the night and the 5 to 8 am bus run, adds winter alerts and the Winter Storm Severity Index, and measures the snow against Beaver Dam’s own big snow morning: 4 inches, the top tenth of snowy weekday mornings at a NOAA weather station 2 miles away.

Q: Can Wisconsin schools hold a remote day instead?

If a district offers make-up instruction virtually on a weather closure, those hours can count; the rule sets no cap on such days.

The odds of a closing or a delay on the next three school mornings in Beaver Dam, measured against Beaver Dam's own big snow morning of 4 inches.

The next three school mornings

Will Beaver Dam close tomorrow?

Reading the National Weather Service forecast for the overnight and the bus hours in Beaver Dam.

Ten winters of school mornings

Beaver Dam’s snow record

41.9inches of snow a winter

6school mornings a winter with 2 in of new snow or more

1.7with 4 in or more

4 ina big snow morning in Beaver Dam: the top tenth of snowy school mornings

11.1school mornings a winter at 0 F or colder

3.3Nov

8.3Dec

11.5Jan

9Feb

6.6Mar

Average snowfall by month, inches

Biggest day 10 in on January 13, 2024
Snowiest winter 2022 to 2023, 58 in
6 in mornings 0.8 a winter
1 in mornings 9.8 a winter

Measured at a NOAA weather station 2 miles away. Mornings are the 7 am snow reading on a weekday from December 1 through March 31, over the ten winters from 2016 to 2017 through 2025 to 2026, from NOAA GHCN Daily.

The Wisconsin rule

How Wisconsin counts a lost day

Wisconsin requires hours, not days: 437 for kindergarten, 1,050 for grades 1 to 6 and 1,137 for grades 7 to 12.

The Wisconsin rules in the agency’s own words, and every Wisconsin district

Next door

Districts near Beaver Dam

District	Snow a winter	4 in mornings
Waupun School DistrictWaupun	63.1 in	2.3
Columbus School DistrictColumbus	39.1 in	1.4
Watertown School DistrictWatertown	36.7 in	1.3
Hartford Joint No. 1 School DistrictHartford	37.1 in	1.6
Hartford Union High School DistrictHartford	37.1 in	1.6
Ripon Area School DistrictRipon	44 in	2.1

The schools

8 schools

Every school in Beaver Dam follows the district’s call: one closing covers them all.

High

Beaver Dam High

Middle

Beaver Dam Middle

Elementary

Prairie View Elementary
Jefferson Elementary
Washington Elementary
Lincoln Elementary
Wilson Elementary

Other schools

BDUSD4Kids

Questions

Beaver Dam snow day questions

How much snow does Beaver Dam get?

What was the biggest snow day near Beaver Dam?

How does the Beaver Dam snow day predictor work?

How does Wisconsin handle snow days?

Can Wisconsin schools hold a remote day instead?

More winter

More for Wisconsin snow days

Snow day predictorClosing and delay odds for any ZIP, with the snowiest districts in the country.Snow depth mapHow much snow is on the ground right now, measured, across the country.First snow datesWhen the first measurable snow usually lands where you live.Frozen pipesThe nights cold enough to freeze a pipe, and what to do before one.Snow plow trackerWhere the plows are during a storm, city by city.Wisconsin winter forecastThe season ahead for Wisconsin: snowfall, cold and the first snow.

A residential street under deep snow on a bright blue morning, cars parked along the curb buried into smooth white mounds, one set of tire tracks down the middle — The morning after a big one: cars buried to the mirrors and one set of tracks down the middle. A street like this is a closing, no debate. Photo, Fairfax, Virginia, January 2016: Jarek Tuszyński, CC BY 4.0

The odds are a forecast read, and the superintendent makes the call: the district’s own announcement is the one to follow.