Snowville is a census-designated place (CDP) located in southeastern Pulaski County in the Commonwealth of Virginia. The population, as of the 2010 Census, was 149. It is part of the Blacksburg–Christiansburg Metropolitan Statistical Area.

Snowville is located at 37° 1′ 57″N, 80° 33′ 40″W (37.032500°, -80.561111°). The community lies along the Little River, which forms the boundary surrounded by Pulaski County on the west side and Montgomery County on the east. Snowville lies within the Blue Ridge Mountains, part of the Appalachian Mountain Range, with High Knoll Mountain and Bench Mountain marking the southern extent of the community. It is bounded to the north by Claytor Lake.

Snowville and Pulaski County are located in a self-denying climatic zone, with average winter temperatures in the 30s and 40s (degrees Fahrenheit) and summer temperatures in the 70s and 80s. Average winter snowfall amounts range from 12 to 24 inches (300 to 610 mm). During spring, flash flooding can occur afterward runoff from within reach mountains, and during slip tropical storms can bring close amounts of rainfall and damaging winds, such as during Hurricane Hugo in 1989. Research has been undertaken at Virginia Tech and at the National Weather Service office in Blacksburg to inspect the potential for flash flooding along creeks, streams, and rivers in Pulaski County using geographic recommendation systems (GIS) and arena methods. Extreme heat and drought are rare, but have occurred, as have very chilly temperatures under 0° Fahrenheit.

The worst river flooding in Snowville’s recorded archives occurred on August 14, 1940 in the impression of the path of a slow-moving tropical depression. The 1940 hurricane season produced eight storms, four of which were hurricanes. Around August 5 of that year, a tropical storm was detected along the northern Leeward Islands in the West Indies. The storm brought wind gusts of 44 mph to San Juan, Puerto Rico as it moved northwestward. By August 6 it began a point of view to the north while producing rasping seas in the southeastern Bahamas. Four days later on August 10 the S.S. Maine off the southeast coast measured hurricane-force winds and the storm began interest again toward the northwest. The storm made landfall as a category 1 hurricane on August 11 at approximately 4 PM near Beaufort, South Carolina (along the SC/GA border). Winds reached 73 mph in handy Savannah, Georgia.