This study aims to investigate the characteristics of the disaster by heavy snowfall in South Korea based on the disaster yearbooks published from 1979 to 2014. We analyses the spatial distributions and temporal changes of disaster caused by heavy snowfall as well as the damage related to the snow depth. According to the change in the property loss by heavy snowfall and the snow depth, there was no major damage by heavy snowfall in 1980~1999 when the new snowfall tended to decrease by -1.4 cm/year. However, the fluctuation in the sum of new snowfall in the 2000s was also the most unstable, resulting in heavy damage by heavy snowfall. The sensitivity on the snow depth is different depending on the geographical regions, but the property loss by heavy snowfall increases as the sum of new snowfall and the maximum snow depth increase.