Do you need a snowblower in Dallas, GA?
Your answer for Dallas
A shovel is enough
A normal winter drops about 0.5 tons of snow on this driveway in Dallas, 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 Dallas is light enough for one.
What a Dallas winter brings
- Snow a year
- 4 in
- Storms of 5 in or more
- 0.0 a winter
- Storms of 10 in or more
- almost never
- Days with snow on the ground
- 2
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 Dallas 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 Dallas
- Dec1.0
- Jan0.8
- Feb0.7
- Mar1.2
- Apr0.1
Snow worth clearing runs from December to March, heaviest in March. Buy the shovel before the first fall, when stores still have them.
Towns near Dallas
Dallas is number 3 of 101 Georgia towns here for snowfall; Kennesaw gets the most at 4 inches.
| Town | Miles | Snow | Two car, paved |
|---|---|---|---|
| Powder Springs, GA | 10 | 1 in | No snowblower |
| Villa Rica, GA | 14 | 1 in | No snowblower |
| Acworth, GA | 14 | 4 in | A shovel is enough |
| Douglasville, GA | 15 | 1 in | No snowblower |
| Kennesaw, GA | 15 | 4 in | A shovel is enough |
| Mableton, GA | 17 | 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 Dallas 7 NE, 7.7 miles from Dallas. 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.