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Do you need a snowblower in Dearborn, MI?

Your answer for Dearborn

Cordless single-stage

Plenty falls in Dearborn, about 4.0 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.

How much snow Dearborn gets

Snow a year
31 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
57

Moderate, a typical snowy-city winter. About 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 4.0 tons of snow to move in a season, and a 10 inch storm weighs 2,600 pounds.

When the snow comes in Dearborn

  1. Nov0.9
  2. Dec4.6
  3. Jan11.7
  4. Feb7.3
  5. Mar5.7
  6. Apr0.6

Snow worth clearing runs from December to March, heaviest in January. Start and service a machine in November.

Towns near Dearborn

Dearborn is number 76 of 90 Michigan towns here for snowfall; Sault Ste. Marie gets the most at 120 inches.

TownMilesSnowTwo car, paved
Melvindale, MI331 inCordless single-stage
Allen Park, MI454 inGas single-stage
Dearborn Heights, MI431 inCordless single-stage
Lincoln Park, MI554 inGas single-stage
Inkster, MI645 inGas single-stage
Garden City, MI731 inCordless 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 Dearborn, 1.4 miles from Dearborn. 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.