Do you need a snowblower in Burley, ID?
The machine for a Burley driveway
A shovel is enough
A normal winter drops about 2.7 tons of snow on this driveway in Burley, 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 Burley is light enough for one.
What a Burley winter brings
- Snow a year
- 21 in
- Storms of 5 in or more
- 0.8 a winter
- Storms of 10 in or more
- almost never
Light, below most snowy cities. A typical snowy US city gets about 1.7 times as much.
On a two car driveway that is about 2.7 tons of snow to move in a season, and a 10 inch storm weighs 2,600 pounds.
When the snow comes in Burley
- Oct0.7
- Nov2.6
- Dec4.6
- Jan6.7
- Feb4.2
- Mar1.2
- Apr0.5
Snow worth clearing runs from November to March, heaviest in January. Buy the shovel before the first fall, when stores still have them.
Towns near Burley
Burley is number 14 of 26 Idaho towns here for snowfall; Rexburg gets the most at 70 inches.
| Town | Miles | Snow | Two car, paved |
|---|---|---|---|
| Twin Falls, ID | 34 | 24 in | Gas single-stage |
| Jerome, ID | 39 | 24 in | Gas single-stage |
| Pocatello, ID | 71 | 30 in | Cordless single-stage |
| Chubbuck, ID | 73 | 64 in | Gas single-stage |
| Blackfoot, ID | 86 | 15 in | A shovel is enough |
| Tremonton, UT | 100 | 40 in | Gas single-stage |
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 Minidoka Dam, 17.6 miles from Burley. 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.