Description
This data release provides the data and code necessary to create a database of 10,625 site-specific Reliability-Targeted Snow Loads (RTSLs) for locations in the Conterminous United States and Alaska. RTSLs are the design snow load requirements necessary to achieve the reliability targets set forth in Chapter 1 of the ASCE 7 Standard, which is the national standard that largely governs hazards-based design in the United States. The data and methods used in this data release are based upon the methods described in Bean et al. (2021), with updated data and refined methodology as applicable.
Author ORCID Identifier
Nicholas Brimhall https://orcid.org/0009-0008-7410-0166
Cameron Swapp https://orcid.org/0009-0004-9019-1097
Brennan Bean https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2853-0455
Document Type
Dataset
DCMI Type
Dataset
File Format
.csv, .R
Publication Date
9-10-2026
Publisher
Utah State University
Language
eng
Code Lists
see README
Disciplines
Statistics and Probability
License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
Identifier
https://doi.org/10.26078/tgt5-f866
Recommended Citation
Brimhall, Nicholas; Swapp, Cameron; and Bean, Brennan, "A Database of Reliability-Targeted Snow Loads for the United States" (2026). Browse all Datasets. Paper 269.
https://digitalcommons.usu.edu/all_datasets/269
Checksum
227513dc32bfe6b719a8cb40185f7998
Additional Files
README.txt (12 kB)Checksum: 403bcfd5a5e00fe7b422d6653d631716
rt_snow_scripts.zip (68519 kB)
Checksum: d944c46abe50c752a5afec3c04d91471
final_table_trial.csv (4480 kB)
Checksum: f765c9154029e02027aab0de5b486dec