Do you need a snowblower in Bluffton, IN?
Your answer for Bluffton
Cordless single-stage
Plenty falls in Bluffton, about 3.0 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.
What a Bluffton winter brings
- Snow a year
- 23 in
- Storms of 5 in or more
- 1.4 a winter
- Storms of 10 in or more
- almost never
- Days with snow on the ground
- 35
Light, below most snowy cities. A typical snowy US city gets about 1.7 times as much. It tends to stay, so each storm lands on the last one.
On a two car driveway that is about 3.0 tons of snow to move in a season, and a 10 inch storm weighs 2,600 pounds.
When the snow comes in Bluffton
- Nov1.1
- Dec4.1
- Jan7.6
- Feb6.5
- Mar3.6
- Apr0.4
Snow worth clearing runs from November to March, heaviest in January. Start and service a machine in October.
Towns near Bluffton
Bluffton is number 48 of 88 Indiana towns here for snowfall; Michigan City gets the most at 65 inches.
| Town | Miles | Snow | Two car, paved |
|---|---|---|---|
| Decatur, IN | 14 | 28 in | Cordless single-stage |
| Huntington, IN | 20 | 26 in | Cordless single-stage |
| New Haven, IN | 24 | 34 in | Cordless single-stage |
| Fort Wayne, IN | 24 | 34 in | Cordless single-stage |
| Marion, IN | 29 | 25 in | Cordless single-stage |
| Van Wert, OH | 32 | 17 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 Bluffton 6N, 5.0 miles from Bluffton. 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.