Do you need a snowblower in Brighton, CO?
Your answer for Brighton
Cordless single-stage
Plenty falls in Brighton, about 4.5 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 Brighton winter brings
- Snow a year
- 35 in
- Storms of 5 in or more
- 0.9 a winter
- Storms of 10 in or more
- about once every 10 winters
- Days with snow on the ground
- 37
Moderate, a typical snowy-city winter. About what a typical snowy US city gets. It tends to stay, so each storm lands on the last one.
On a two car driveway that is about 4.5 tons of snow to move in a season, and a 10 inch storm weighs 2,600 pounds.
When the snow comes in Brighton
- Sep0.2
- Oct3.2
- Nov5.8
- Dec5.2
- Jan5.2
- Feb5.3
- Mar6.0
- Apr3.1
- May0.5
Snow worth clearing runs from October to April, heaviest in March. Start and service a machine in September.
Towns near Brighton
Brighton is number 43 of 53 Colorado towns here for snowfall; Steamboat Springs gets the most at 185 inches.
| Town | Miles | Snow | Two car, paved |
|---|---|---|---|
| Commerce City, CO | 6 | 35 in | Cordless single-stage |
| Thornton, CO | 8 | 45 in | Gas single-stage |
| Northglenn, CO | 11 | 45 in | Gas single-stage |
| Frederick, CO | 14 | 47 in | Gas single-stage |
| Broomfield, CO | 14 | 74 in | Two-stage snowblower |
| Federal Heights, CO | 14 | 45 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 Brighton 3 SE, 2.7 miles from Brighton. 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.