Do you need a snowblower in Country Club Hills, IL?
What clears snow in Country Club Hills
Cordless single-stage
Plenty falls in Country Club Hills, about 3.7 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.
What a Country Club Hills winter brings
- Snow a year
- 28 in
- Storms of 5 in or more
- 1.2 a winter
- Storms of 10 in or more
- about once every 10 winters
- Days with snow on the ground
- 46
Moderate, a typical snowy-city winter. A typical snowy US city gets about 1.3 times as much. It tends to stay, so each storm lands on the last one.
On a two car driveway that is about 3.7 tons of snow to move in a season, and a 10 inch storm weighs 2,600 pounds.
When the snow comes in Country Club Hills
- Oct0.2
- Nov0.9
- Dec4.0
- Jan10.2
- Feb7.5
- Mar4.9
- Apr0.5
Snow worth clearing runs from December to March, heaviest in January. Start and service a machine in November.
Towns near Country Club Hills
Country Club Hills is number 144 of 225 Illinois towns here for snowfall; St. Charles gets the most at 46 inches.
| Town | Miles | Snow | Two car, paved |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hazel Crest, IL | 2 | 28 in | Cordless single-stage |
| Markham, IL | 3 | 28 in | Cordless single-stage |
| Oak Forest, IL | 3 | 28 in | Cordless single-stage |
| Homewood, IL | 3 | 28 in | Cordless single-stage |
| Matteson, IL | 4 | 28 in | Cordless single-stage |
| Tinley Park, IL | 4 | 28 in | Cordless 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 Park Forest, 5.3 miles from Country Club Hills. 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.