Unlikely to bury a person.
Small avalanches are relatively harmless unless they drag you into trees, rocks, or gullies. They are unlikely to bury a person on a planar slope. A typical D1 avalanche would fill an average apartment with less than a meter of debris (less than 10 tons of snow) and runs the length of one or several buses.
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These small loose avalanches are harmless unless they pushed you over cliffs. Credit: Crested Butte Avalanche Center