Do you need a snowblower in Cuyahoga Falls, OH?
The machine for a Cuyahoga Falls driveway
Two-stage snowblower
Cuyahoga Falls averages 65 inches a year, among the snowiest towns in the country. Volume alone needs a two-stage machine.
Before you buy, measure the garage door and the storage spot: these machines are wide and heavy.
What a Cuyahoga Falls winter brings
- Snow a year
- 65 in
- Storms of 5 in or more
- 1.9 a winter
- Storms of 10 in or more
- almost never
- Days with snow on the ground
- 60
Extreme, among the snowiest towns in the country. That is about 1.8 times what a typical snowy US city gets. It tends to stay, so each storm lands on the last one.
On a two car driveway that is about 8.5 tons of snow to move in a season, and a 10 inch storm weighs 2,600 pounds.
When the snow comes in Cuyahoga Falls
- Nov3.5
- Dec12.4
- Jan18.4
- Feb18.9
- Mar9.2
- Apr2.9
- May0.1
Snow worth clearing runs from November to April, heaviest in February. Start and service a machine in October.
Towns near Cuyahoga Falls
Cuyahoga Falls is number 17 of 176 Ohio towns here for snowfall; Euclid gets the most at 114 inches.
| Town | Miles | Snow | Two car, paved |
|---|---|---|---|
| Stow, OH | 6 | 45 in | Cordless single-stage |
| Hudson, OH | 7 | 45 in | Cordless single-stage |
| Akron, OH | 7 | 47 in | Cordless single-stage |
| Tallmadge, OH | 9 | 45 in | Cordless single-stage |
| Brecksville, OH | 9 | 65 in | Two-stage snowblower |
| Macedonia, OH | 10 | 65 in | Two-stage snowblower |
Where these numbers come from
Read next: Single-stage or two-stage and Why storm depth matters more than snowfall.
NOAA 1991 to 2020 climate normals from Brunswick 0.5 NE, 14.3 miles from Cuyahoga Falls. 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.