Do you need a snowblower in Borger, TX?
The machine for a Borger driveway
A shovel is enough
A normal winter drops about 2.0 tons of snow on this driveway in Borger, 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 Borger is light enough for one.
A normal Borger winter
- Snow a year
- 15 in
- Storms of 5 in or more
- 0.7 a winter
- Storms of 10 in or more
- almost never
- Days with snow on the ground
- 8
Light, below most snowy cities. A typical snowy US city gets about 2.5 times as much. Most of it melts within a few days, so in Borger waiting a day is often a real option.
On a two car driveway that is about 2.0 tons of snow to move in a season, and a 10 inch storm weighs 2,600 pounds.
When the snow comes in Borger
- Oct0.3
- Nov2.2
- Dec4.0
- Jan3.6
- Feb1.9
- Mar2.4
- Apr0.6
Snow worth clearing runs from November to March, heaviest in December. Buy the shovel before the first fall, when stores still have them.
Borger and its neighbours
Borger is number 3 of 252 Texas towns here for snowfall; Amarillo gets the most at 17 inches.
| Town | Miles | Snow | Two car, paved |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pampa, TX | 26 | 16 in | A shovel is enough |
| Dumas, TX | 35 | 9 in | A shovel is enough |
| Amarillo, TX | 40 | 17 in | A shovel is enough |
| Canyon, TX | 55 | 8 in | A shovel is enough |
| Guymon, OK | 71 | 3 in | No snowblower |
| Hereford, TX | 81 | 14 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 Borger, 0.7 miles from Borger. 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.