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Do you need a snowblower in Chillicothe, OH?

The machine for a Chillicothe driveway

A shovel is enough

A normal winter drops about 1.5 tons of snow on this driveway in Chillicothe, 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 Chillicothe is light enough for one.

How much snow Chillicothe gets

Snow a year
12 in
Storms of 5 in or more
0.3 a winter
Storms of 10 in or more
almost never
Days with snow on the ground
21

Light, below most snowy cities. A typical snowy US city gets about 3.3 times as much. It tends to stay, so each storm lands on the last one.

On a two car driveway that is about 1.5 tons of snow to move in a season, and a 10 inch storm weighs 2,600 pounds.

When the snow comes in Chillicothe

  1. Nov0.1
  2. Dec2.0
  3. Jan5.0
  4. Feb3.5
  5. Mar0.9

Snow worth clearing runs from December to February, heaviest in January. Buy the shovel before the first fall, when stores still have them.

Towns near Chillicothe

Chillicothe is number 166 of 176 Ohio towns here for snowfall; Euclid gets the most at 114 inches.

TownMilesSnowTwo car, paved
Circleville, OH1815 inA shovel is enough
Washington Court House, OH2718 inA shovel is enough
Lancaster, OH3417 inA shovel is enough
Canal Winchester, OH3628 inCordless single-stage
Grove City, OH3728 inCordless single-stage
Pickerington, OH4028 inCordless 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 Waverly, 15.9 miles from Chillicothe. 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.