Do you need a snowblower in Eagle Mountain, UT?
What clears snow in Eagle Mountain
Cordless single-stage
Plenty falls in Eagle Mountain, about 4.4 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.
What a Eagle Mountain winter brings
- Snow a year
- 34 in
- Storms of 5 in or more
- 1.0 a winter
- Storms of 10 in or more
- almost never
- Days with snow on the ground
- 50
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 4.4 tons of snow to move in a season, and a 10 inch storm weighs 2,600 pounds.
When the snow comes in Eagle Mountain
- Oct0.7
- Nov3.4
- Dec7.9
- Jan10.7
- Feb5.9
- Mar3.5
- Apr1.4
- May0.1
Snow worth clearing runs from November to April, heaviest in January. Start and service a machine in October.
Eagle Mountain and its neighbours
Eagle Mountain is number 48 of 67 Utah towns here for snowfall; Bountiful gets the most at 119 inches.
| Town | Miles | Snow | Two car, paved |
|---|---|---|---|
| Saratoga Springs, UT | 5 | 26 in | Cordless single-stage |
| Lehi, UT | 10 | 26 in | Cordless single-stage |
| Bluffdale, UT | 12 | 26 in | Cordless single-stage |
| American Fork, UT | 12 | 41 in | Gas single-stage |
| Herriman, UT | 12 | 26 in | Cordless single-stage |
| Vineyard, UT | 14 | 41 in | Gas 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 Fairfield, 5.5 miles from Eagle Mountain. 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.