Do you need a snowblower in Dodge City, KS?
Your answer for Dodge City
A shovel is enough
A normal winter drops about 2.5 tons of snow on this driveway in Dodge City, 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 Dodge City is light enough for one.
A normal Dodge City winter
- Snow a year
- 19 in
- Storms of 5 in or more
- 1.0 a winter
- Storms of 10 in or more
- about once every 5 winters
- Days with snow on the ground
- 17
Light, below most snowy cities. A typical snowy US city gets about 2.0 times as much. It tends to stay, so each storm lands on the last one.
On a two car driveway that is about 2.5 tons of snow to move in a season, and a 10 inch storm weighs 2,600 pounds.
When the snow comes in Dodge City
- Oct0.6
- Nov1.4
- Dec4.0
- Jan3.9
- Feb4.7
- Mar3.7
- Apr0.8
Snow worth clearing runs from November to March, heaviest in February. Buy the shovel before the first fall, when stores still have them.
Dodge City and its neighbours
Dodge City is the snowiest Kansas town here for snowfall.
| Town | Miles | Snow | Two car, paved |
|---|---|---|---|
| Garden City, KS | 48 | 16 in | A shovel is enough |
| Liberal, KS | 70 | 14 in | A shovel is enough |
| Great Bend, KS | 78 | 12 in | A shovel is enough |
| Hays, KS | 86 | 13 in | A shovel is enough |
| Woodward, OK | 98 | 15 in | A shovel is enough |
| Guymon, OK | 109 | 3 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 Dodge City, 2.7 miles from Dodge City. 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.