Is the Buffalo Bills field heated?

The Buffalo Bills are used to seeing a ton of snow on the field during the winters, but fans are wondering if the Bills field at Highmark Stadium is heated.

Few things get NFL fans hyped like a snowy game and the Buffalo Bills are more than capable of delivering that when we get late into the season, into winter, and especially in the playoffs. And such was the case against the Cincinnati Bengals in the 2023 Divisional Round matchup.

Then we saw it primed to happen again with the Bills hosting the Pittsburgh Steelers during Super Wild Card Weekend of the 2024 playoffs and with snow in the forecast for Buffalo and Highmark Stadium coming off of the lake.

With the snow on the ground covering much of the field, there were some spots on the yard-lines and sidelines where there wasn’t any powder covering things. And that got fans wondering about how they were doing this.

More specifically, the question was if the Bills field is heated or not.

Is the Buffalo Bills field heated?

The quick answer to that is no. Buffalo’s Highmark Stadium does not have a heating system beneath their turf. They go out and brave the true elements in the outdoors whenever they play in this type of game.

What’s interesting is that we often hear about the Frozen Tundra for Green Bay and Lambeau Field, but that stadium and field have a heating system installed beneath the field. That means that Buffalo has earned that title more so given that the Bills field is not heated.

Regardless, it makes for some great scenes in Buffalo whenever the snow is falling. It’s really just 22 guys battling it out in whatever the weather has to offer. Football doesn’t get much purer than that.

Which NFL stadiums have heated fields?

Though there may be some heating systems that we are unaware of, there are five teams that are known to have heated fields in the NFL. And really, the quintet makes a lot of sense when you consider the weather that is seen in these areas of the United States in the winter.

• Acrisure Stadiums, Pittsburgh, PA (Steelers)
• Arrowhead Stadium, Kansas City, MO (Chiefs)
• Lambeau Field, Green Bay, WI (Packers)
• Lincoln Financial Field, Philadelphia, PA (Eagles)
• Empower Field at Mile High, Denver, CO (Broncos)

Lambeau Field, home of the Green Bay Packers, is considered one of the innovators in this space as the Packers were able to install a heating system beneath the field. That has paid dividends in Green Bay.