White Christmas
Will Fort Yates, ND have a white Christmas?
Fort Yates, North Dakota had snow on the ground on Christmas morning in 16 of the last 30 Christmases (1996 to 2025). The last white Christmas there was in 2025. A coin flip.
Measured at Pollock, 21 miles southeast of Fort Yates. 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 Fort Yates starts on this page on December 18.