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Do you need a snowblower in Columbia City, IN?

Your answer for Columbia City

A shovel is enough

A normal winter drops about 2.8 tons of snow on this driveway in Columbia City, 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 Columbia City is light enough for one.

A normal Columbia City winter

Snow a year
21 in
Storms of 5 in or more
0.8 a winter
Storms of 10 in or more
almost never
Days with snow on the ground
49

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 2.8 tons of snow to move in a season, and a 10 inch storm weighs 2,600 pounds.

When the snow comes in Columbia City

  1. Nov1.2
  2. Dec3.4
  3. Jan7.0
  4. Feb6.5
  5. Mar3.0
  6. Apr0.3

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

Towns near Columbia City

Columbia City is number 53 of 88 Indiana towns here for snowfall; Michigan City gets the most at 65 inches.

TownMilesSnowTwo car, paved
Huntertown, IN1736 inCordless single-stage
Fort Wayne, IN1834 inCordless single-stage
Huntington, IN2026 inCordless single-stage
Warsaw, IN2032 inCordless single-stage
Kendallville, IN2230 inCordless single-stage
New Haven, IN2534 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 Columbia City, 1.4 miles from Columbia City. 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.