Do you need a snowblower in Aurora, CO?
Your answer for Aurora
Gas single-stage
Aurora gets enough snow that shovelling it all is a real job, about 6.4 tons a winter on this driveway, but storms over 8 inches are uncommon.
Before you buy, check the intake height against the deepest storm above, and plan to clear before the city plow leaves its ridge of heavy slush at the end of the drive.
A normal Aurora winter
- Snow a year
- 49 in
- Storms of 5 in or more
- 1.7 a winter
- Storms of 10 in or more
- about once every 5 winters
- Days with snow on the ground
- 43
Heavy, more than most snowy cities. That is about 1.4 times what a typical snowy US city gets. It tends to stay, so each storm lands on the last one.
On a two car driveway that is about 6.4 tons of snow to move in a season, and a 10 inch storm weighs 2,600 pounds.
When the snow comes in Aurora
- Sep0.8
- Oct3.9
- Nov7.3
- Dec6.6
- Jan6.4
- Feb7.6
- Mar8.8
- Apr6.2
- May1.4
Snow worth clearing runs from October to May, heaviest in March. Start and service a machine in September.
Towns near Aurora
Aurora is number 24 of 53 Colorado towns here for snowfall; Steamboat Springs gets the most at 185 inches.
| Town | Miles | Snow | Two car, paved |
|---|---|---|---|
| Denver, CO | 9 | 49 in | Gas single-stage |
| Centennial, CO | 11 | 64 in | Two-stage snowblower |
| Greenwood Village, CO | 12 | 64 in | Two-stage snowblower |
| Commerce City, CO | 13 | 35 in | Cordless single-stage |
| Parker, CO | 14 | 64 in | Two-stage snowblower |
| Lone Tree, CO | 15 | 64 in | Two-stage snowblower |
Where these numbers come from
Read next: Snowblowers on a gravel driveway and Single-stage or two-stage.
NOAA 1991 to 2020 climate normals from Denver-Stapleton, 8.7 miles from Aurora. A normal winter, not this winter's forecast. Snow is weighed at 6.24 pounds a cubic foot, fresh and fairly dry; wet spring snow can weigh three times that.