Do you need a snowblower in Beckley, WV?
Your answer for Beckley
Cordless single-stage
Plenty falls in Beckley, about 5.0 tons a winter on this driveway, but it comes in shallow storms a small cordless machine can take in.
Before you buy, check the battery is rated to clear the whole driveway in one charge in the cold, or get a second battery. Batteries lose range below freezing.
A normal Beckley winter
- Snow a year
- 38 in
- Storms of 5 in or more
- 0.9 a winter
- Storms of 10 in or more
- about once every 10 winters
- Days with snow on the ground
- 30
Moderate, a typical snowy-city winter. About 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 5.0 tons of snow to move in a season, and a 10 inch storm weighs 2,600 pounds.
When the snow comes in Beckley
- Oct0.5
- Nov1.2
- Dec7.9
- Jan12.8
- Feb10.0
- Mar5.2
- Apr0.8
Snow worth clearing runs from November to March, heaviest in January. Start and service a machine in October.
Towns near Beckley
Beckley is number 2 of 13 West Virginia towns here for snowfall; Weirton gets the most at 44 inches.
| Town | Miles | Snow | Two car, paved |
|---|---|---|---|
| Charleston, WV | 47 | 32 in | Cordless single-stage |
| South Charleston, WV | 49 | 32 in | Cordless single-stage |
| Blacksburg, VA | 55 | 25 in | Gas single-stage |
| St. Albans, WV | 55 | 11 in | A shovel is enough |
| Radford, VA | 56 | 22 in | A shovel is enough |
| Christiansburg, VA | 60 | 22 in | A shovel is enough |
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 Beckley Va Hospital, 1.9 miles from Beckley. 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.