Do you need a snowblower in Bella Vista, AR?
Your answer for Bella Vista
A shovel is enough
A normal winter drops about 1.2 tons of snow on this driveway in Bella Vista, spread over a few light falls. That is shovel work.
Get a wide plastic shovel with a bent handle before the first fall, and if you have a bad back, consider a cordless single-stage instead: the snow in Bella Vista is light enough for one.
A normal Bella Vista winter
- Snow a year
- 10 in
- Storms of 5 in or more
- 0.6 a winter
- Storms of 10 in or more
- about once every 5 winters
- Days with snow on the ground
- 6
Light, below most snowy cities. A typical snowy US city gets about 3.3 times as much. Most of it melts within a few days, so in Bella Vista waiting a day is often a real option.
On a two car driveway that is about 1.2 tons of snow to move in a season, and a 10 inch storm weighs 2,600 pounds.
When the snow comes in Bella Vista
- Nov0.2
- Dec1.2
- Jan3.2
- Feb2.3
- Mar2.6
Snow worth clearing runs from December to March, heaviest in January. Buy the shovel before the first fall, when stores still have them.
Bella Vista and its neighbours
Bella Vista is number 5 of 39 Arkansas towns here for snowfall; Siloam Springs gets the most at 13 inches.
| Town | Miles | Snow | Two car, paved |
|---|---|---|---|
| Centerton, AR | 8 | 10 in | A shovel is enough |
| Bentonville, AR | 8 | 10 in | A shovel is enough |
| Pea Ridge, AR | 8 | 10 in | A shovel is enough |
| Rogers, AR | 12 | 10 in | A shovel is enough |
| Lowell, AR | 16 | 10 in | A shovel is enough |
| Springdale, AR | 20 | 10 in | A shovel is enough |
Where these numbers come from
Read next: What a winter of snow weighs and Why storm depth matters more than snowfall.
NOAA 1991 to 2020 climate normals from Bentonville 4 S, 10.4 miles from Bella Vista. 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.