Do you need a snowblower in Corvallis, OR?
What clears snow in Corvallis
A shovel is enough
A normal winter drops about 0.5 tons of snow on this driveway in Corvallis, 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 Corvallis is light enough for one.
A normal Corvallis winter
- Snow a year
- 4 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
- 3
Light, below most snowy cities. A typical snowy US city gets about 10.0 times as much. Most of it melts within a few days, so in Corvallis waiting a day is often a real option.
On a two car driveway that is about 0.5 tons of snow to move in a season, and a 10 inch storm weighs 2,600 pounds.
When the snow comes in Corvallis
- Nov0.1
- Dec0.8
- Jan0.5
- Feb1.9
- Mar0.6
Inches of new snow per month, averaged over 1991 to 2020.
Corvallis and its neighbours
Corvallis is number 14 of 57 Oregon towns here for snowfall; Baker City gets the most at 79 inches.
| Town | Miles | Snow | Two car, paved |
|---|---|---|---|
| Albany, OR | 10 | 3 in | No snowblower |
| Lebanon, OR | 18 | 0 in | No snowblower |
| Monmouth, OR | 20 | 10 in | A shovel is enough |
| Independence, OR | 20 | 10 in | A shovel is enough |
| Dallas, OR | 24 | 10 in | A shovel is enough |
| Salem, OR | 27 | 1 in | No snowblower |
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 Corvallis 1.9 SSE, 1.9 miles from Corvallis. 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.