This is the heart-stopping moment a toddler dodged an avalanche of snow falling from a roof as his grandfather yelled at him to move away.

The scene was captured on surveillance cameras outside a home in Henan, in central China, on Tuesday afternoon, February 6.

In the video, the little child was seen walking across the yard towards his grandfather when suddenly the melting snow began falling from the nearby roof.

The old man called out to the child telling him to back away, but the toddler stopped and curiously observed the fallen snow instead.

Just seconds later, a massive amount of snow collapsed to the ground, causing the grandfather to shout in fear at the toddler to run away.

The child simply took a few steps back, incredibly managing to avoid the snow by just a few inches.

The grandfather then hurriedly came to check the child's condition. Thankfully, he was unharmed.