Do you need a snowblower in Clearfield, UT?
Your answer for Clearfield
Gas single-stage
Clearfield gets enough snow that shovelling it all is a real job, about 3.0 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.
What a Clearfield winter brings
- Snow a year
- 23 in
- Storms of 5 in or more
- 1.6 a winter
- Storms of 10 in or more
- about once every 3 winters
- Days with snow on the ground
- 25
Light, below most snowy cities. A typical snowy US city gets about 1.7 times as much. It tends to stay, so each storm lands on the last one.
On a two car driveway that is about 3.0 tons of snow to move in a season, and a 10 inch storm weighs 2,600 pounds.
When the snow comes in Clearfield
- Oct0.2
- Nov1.3
- Dec11.3
- Jan3.9
- Feb4.1
- Mar1.7
- Apr0.1
- May0.2
Snow worth clearing runs from November to March, heaviest in December. Start and service a machine in October.
Clearfield and its neighbours
Clearfield is number 58 of 67 Utah towns here for snowfall; Bountiful gets the most at 119 inches.
| Town | Miles | Snow | Two car, paved |
|---|---|---|---|
| Syracuse, UT | 3 | 23 in | Gas single-stage |
| Layton, UT | 3 | 23 in | Gas single-stage |
| Clinton, UT | 4 | 23 in | Gas single-stage |
| West Point, UT | 5 | 23 in | Gas single-stage |
| Roy, UT | 5 | 23 in | Gas single-stage |
| Kaysville, UT | 6 | 50 in | Gas 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 Weber Basin Pump Plt 3, 5.6 miles from Clearfield. 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.