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Do you need a snowblower in Clayton, OH?

The machine for a Clayton driveway

Cordless single-stage

Plenty falls in Clayton, about 3.3 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.

A normal Clayton winter

Snow a year
25 in
Storms of 5 in or more
0.9 a winter
Storms of 10 in or more
almost never
Days with snow on the ground
27

Moderate, a typical snowy-city winter. A typical snowy US city gets about 1.4 times as much. It tends to stay, so each storm lands on the last one.

On a two car driveway that is about 3.3 tons of snow to move in a season, and a 10 inch storm weighs 2,600 pounds.

When the snow comes in Clayton

  1. Oct0.2
  2. Nov0.8
  3. Dec4.8
  4. Jan8.3
  5. Feb6.6
  6. Mar3.9
  7. Apr0.4

Snow worth clearing runs from December to March, heaviest in January. Start and service a machine in November.

Clayton and its neighbours

Clayton is number 107 of 176 Ohio towns here for snowfall; Euclid gets the most at 114 inches.

TownMilesSnowTwo car, paved
Englewood, OH125 inCordless single-stage
Trotwood, OH512 inA shovel is enough
Vandalia, OH725 inCordless single-stage
Dayton, OH912 inA shovel is enough
Tipp City, OH1012 inA shovel is enough
Huber Heights, OH1125 inCordless 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 Dayton International Airport, 6.2 miles from Clayton. 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.