White Christmas
Will Challis, ID have a white Christmas?
Challis, Idaho had snow on the ground on Christmas morning in 23 of the 29 Christmases measured from 1996 to 2025. The last white Christmas there was in 2024.
Measured at Chilly Barton Flat, 41 miles southeast of Challis. That station is far enough from Challis, or high or low enough, that this is its own record rather than a call for the town. A white Christmas is an inch or more of snow on the ground at the Christmas morning reading, the line NOAA uses, counted from the station's own daily record.
The forecast for Christmas morning in Challis starts on this page on December 18.