Do you need a snowblower in Defiance, OH?
Your answer for Defiance
Cordless single-stage
Plenty falls in Defiance, about 3.1 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 Defiance gets
- Snow a year
- 24 in
- Storms of 5 in or more
- 0.6 a winter
- Storms of 10 in or more
- about once every 10 winters
- Days with snow on the ground
- 38
Light, below most snowy cities. A typical snowy US city gets about 1.4 times as much. It tends to stay, so each storm lands on the last one.
On a two car driveway that is about 3.1 tons of snow to move in a season, and a 10 inch storm weighs 2,600 pounds.
When the snow comes in Defiance
- Nov0.9
- Dec3.8
- Jan8.7
- Feb8.0
- Mar2.6
- Apr0.2
Snow worth clearing runs from December to March, heaviest in January. Start and service a machine in November.
Defiance and its neighbours
Defiance is number 110 of 176 Ohio towns here for snowfall; Euclid gets the most at 114 inches.
| Town | Miles | Snow | Two car, paved |
|---|---|---|---|
| Van Wert, OH | 31 | 17 in | A shovel is enough |
| Auburn, IN | 36 | 36 in | Cordless single-stage |
| New Haven, IN | 37 | 34 in | Cordless single-stage |
| Bowling Green, OH | 38 | 21 in | A shovel is enough |
| Lima, OH | 40 | 19 in | A shovel is enough |
| Findlay, OH | 41 | 24 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 Defiance, 1.0 miles from Defiance. 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.