Do you need a snowblower in Burlington, WA?
Your answer for Burlington
A shovel is enough
A normal winter drops about 0.7 tons of snow on this driveway in Burlington, 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 Burlington is light enough for one.
How much snow Burlington gets
- Snow a year
- 6 in
- Storms of 5 in or more
- 0.1 a winter
- Storms of 10 in or more
- almost never
- Days with snow on the ground
- 4
Light, below most snowy cities. A typical snowy US city gets about 5.0 times as much. Most of it melts within a few days, so in Burlington waiting a day is often a real option.
On a two car driveway that is about 0.7 tons of snow to move in a season, and a 10 inch storm weighs 2,600 pounds.
When the snow comes in Burlington
- Oct0.1
- Nov0.7
- Dec3.7
- Jan0.6
- Feb0.2
- Mar0.4
Inches of new snow per month, averaged over 1991 to 2020.
Burlington and its neighbours
Burlington is number 30 of 91 Washington towns here for snowfall; Spokane gets the most at 45 inches.
| Town | Miles | Snow | Two car, paved |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mount Vernon, WA | 3 | 6 in | A shovel is enough |
| Sedro-Woolley, WA | 5 | 6 in | A shovel is enough |
| Anacortes, WA | 14 | 5 in | A shovel is enough |
| Oak Harbor, WA | 18 | 5 in | A shovel is enough |
| Bellingham, WA | 21 | 3 in | A shovel is enough |
| Arlington, WA | 22 | 4 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 Sedro-Woolley, 4.7 miles from Burlington. 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.