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Do you need a snowblower in East Peoria, IL?

Your answer for East Peoria

Cordless single-stage

Plenty falls in East Peoria, 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 East Peoria gets

Snow a year
24 in
Storms of 5 in or more
0.5 a winter
Storms of 10 in or more
almost never
Days with snow on the ground
32

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 East Peoria

  1. Nov0.7
  2. Dec5.8
  3. Jan7.1
  4. Feb6.5
  5. Mar2.9
  6. Apr0.9

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

East Peoria and its neighbours

East Peoria is number 173 of 225 Illinois towns here for snowfall; St. Charles gets the most at 46 inches.

TownMilesSnowTwo car, paved
Morton, IL624 inCordless single-stage
Washington, IL624 inCordless single-stage
Peoria, IL726 inCordless single-stage
Pekin, IL826 inCordless single-stage
Canton, IL2714 inA shovel is enough
Normal, IL317 inA shovel is enough

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 Morton, 6.4 miles from East Peoria. 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.