Do you need a snowblower in Enumclaw, WA?
What clears snow in Enumclaw
A shovel is enough
A normal winter drops about 0.6 tons of snow on this driveway in Enumclaw, 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 Enumclaw is light enough for one.
What a Enumclaw winter brings
- Snow a year
- 4 in
- Storms of 5 in or more
- 0.5 a winter
- Storms of 10 in or more
- about once every 10 winters
- Days with snow on the ground
- 0
Light, below most snowy cities. A typical snowy US city gets about 10.0 times as much. Most of it melts within a few days, so in Enumclaw waiting a day is often a real option.
On a two car driveway that is about 0.6 tons of snow to move in a season, and a 10 inch storm weighs 2,600 pounds.
When the snow comes in Enumclaw
- Nov1.5
- Dec1.1
- Jan0.2
- Feb1.3
- Mar0.2
Snow worth clearing runs from November to February, heaviest in November. Buy the shovel before the first fall, when stores still have them.
Towns near Enumclaw
Enumclaw is number 43 of 91 Washington towns here for snowfall; Spokane gets the most at 45 inches.
| Town | Miles | Snow | Two car, paved |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bonney Lake, WA | 8 | 6 in | A shovel is enough |
| Maple Valley, WA | 12 | 18 in | A shovel is enough |
| Sumner, WA | 12 | 6 in | A shovel is enough |
| Covington, WA | 12 | 6 in | A shovel is enough |
| Auburn, WA | 13 | 6 in | A shovel is enough |
| Edgewood, WA | 14 | 6 in | A shovel is enough |
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 Buckley 1 NE, 2.4 miles from Enumclaw. 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.