Do you need a snowblower in Bolingbrook, IL?
Your answer for Bolingbrook
Cordless single-stage
Plenty falls in Bolingbrook, about 3.8 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.
How much snow Bolingbrook gets
- Snow a year
- 29 in
- Storms of 5 in or more
- 0.8 a winter
- Storms of 10 in or more
- almost never
- Days with snow on the ground
- 47
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 3.8 tons of snow to move in a season, and a 10 inch storm weighs 2,600 pounds.
When the snow comes in Bolingbrook
- Nov1.0
- Dec7.6
- Jan9.0
- Feb8.1
- Mar3.0
- Apr0.5
Snow worth clearing runs from November to March, heaviest in January. Start and service a machine in October.
Towns near Bolingbrook
Bolingbrook is number 128 of 225 Illinois towns here for snowfall; St. Charles gets the most at 46 inches.
| Town | Miles | Snow | Two car, paved |
|---|---|---|---|
| Romeoville, IL | 4 | 33 in | Cordless single-stage |
| Woodridge, IL | 5 | 24 in | Gas single-stage |
| Naperville, IL | 5 | 24 in | Gas single-stage |
| Lemont, IL | 6 | 33 in | Cordless single-stage |
| Lisle, IL | 7 | 24 in | Gas single-stage |
| Darien, IL | 8 | 24 in | Gas 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 Plainfield 3 NE, 5.4 miles from Bolingbrook. 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.