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90-95: Percentage of freshly fallen snow that is air

15: Width in inches of the record-holding snowflake, which fell on Fort Keogh, Mont., in 1887

270: Approximate number of people killed in U.S. avalanches in the past decade

20: Percentage who were killed in Colorado

326: Average annual snowfall, in inches, in Valdez, Alaska

Source: Discover Magazine

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