Do you need a snowblower in Chubbuck, ID?
The machine for a Chubbuck driveway
Gas single-stage
Chubbuck gets enough snow that shovelling it all is a real job, about 8.3 tons a winter on this driveway, but storms over 8 inches are uncommon.
Before you buy, check the intake height against the deepest storm above, and plan to clear before the city plow leaves its ridge of heavy slush at the end of the drive.
A normal Chubbuck winter
- Snow a year
- 64 in
- Storms of 5 in or more
- 1.9 a winter
- Storms of 10 in or more
- about once every 5 winters
- Days with snow on the ground
- 75
Heavy, more than most snowy cities. That is about 1.8 times 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 8.3 tons of snow to move in a season, and a 10 inch storm weighs 2,600 pounds.
When the snow comes in Chubbuck
- Sep0.1
- Oct2.3
- Nov7.0
- Dec16.4
- Jan13.5
- Feb10.5
- Mar8.1
- Apr4.8
- May0.8
- Jun0.1
Snow worth clearing runs from October to April, heaviest in December. Start and service a machine in September.
Chubbuck and its neighbours
Chubbuck is number 4 of 26 Idaho towns here for snowfall; Rexburg gets the most at 70 inches.
| Town | Miles | Snow | Two car, paved |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pocatello, ID | 4 | 30 in | Cordless single-stage |
| Blackfoot, ID | 19 | 15 in | A shovel is enough |
| Idaho Falls, ID | 44 | 66 in | Two-stage snowblower |
| Ammon, ID | 45 | 66 in | Two-stage snowblower |
| Rexburg, ID | 70 | 70 in | Two-stage snowblower |
| Burley, ID | 73 | 21 in | A shovel is enough |
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 Pocatello 2 NE, 3.5 miles from Chubbuck. 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.