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Do you need a snowblower in Bergenfield, NJ?

The machine for a Bergenfield driveway

Gas single-stage

Bergenfield gets enough snow that shovelling it all is a real job, about 3.9 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 Bergenfield winter

Snow a year
30 in
Storms of 5 in or more
1.9 a winter
Storms of 10 in or more
about once every 3 winters
Days with snow on the ground
24

Moderate, a typical snowy-city winter. A typical snowy US city gets about 1.3 times as much. It tends to stay, so each storm lands on the last one.

On a two car driveway that is about 3.9 tons of snow to move in a season, and a 10 inch storm weighs 2,600 pounds.

When the snow comes in Bergenfield

  1. Oct0.1
  2. Nov0.5
  3. Dec4.9
  4. Jan8.8
  5. Feb10.1
  6. Mar5.0
  7. Apr0.4

Snow worth clearing runs from December to March, heaviest in February. Start and service a machine in November.

Bergenfield and its neighbours

Bergenfield is number 20 of 116 New Jersey towns here for snowfall; Phillipsburg gets the most at 41 inches.

TownMilesSnowTwo car, paved
New Milford, NJ133 inTwo-stage snowblower
Dumont, NJ233 inTwo-stage snowblower
River Edge, NJ230 inGas single-stage
Tenafly, NJ233 inTwo-stage snowblower
Englewood, NJ330 inGas single-stage
Hackensack, NJ330 inGas single-stage

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 NEW York Cntrl Pk Twr, 10.0 miles from Bergenfield. 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.