Groups and things that have been named after the avalanche include:

• Avalanche (album), the first solo album by Canadian musician, Matthew Good.
• Avalanche (comics), a Marvel Comics supervillain with geokinetic powers whose real name is Dominic Petros.
• Avalanche (P2P), a proposed peer-to-peer network developed by Microsoft.
• Avalanche breakdown, an electrical process.
• Avalanche Corporate Technology, a corporate shared source intellectual property cooperative.
• Avalanche diode, a silicon diode that is designed to break down and conduct at a specified reverse bias voltage.
• Avalanche effect, a desirable property of cryptographic algorithms.
• Avalanche Inc., the record label of ex-Godflesh member Justin Broadrick.
• Avalanche joseki, a joseki (corner opening) in the game of go.
• AVALANCHE, an ecoterrorist group in the Square Enix video game Final Fantasy VII series.
• Chevrolet Avalanche, a four-door, six-seat Chevrolet pickup truck.
• Colorado Avalanche, a National Hockey League team based in Denver, Colorado.
• Electron avalanche, an electrical phenomenon.
• Snowball effect, which is sometimes called the avalanche effect.
• Outtakes and Extras from the Illinois Album, a 2006 album by musician Sufjan Stevens.
• The Avalanches, an electronic music collective from Melbourne, Australia.