Do you need a snowblower in Evans, CO?
Your answer for Evans
Cordless single-stage
Plenty falls in Evans, about 4.5 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 Evans winter brings
- Snow a year
- 35 in
- Storms of 5 in or more
- 1.4 a winter
- Storms of 10 in or more
- about once every 5 winters
- Days with snow on the ground
- 39
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 4.5 tons of snow to move in a season, and a 10 inch storm weighs 2,600 pounds.
When the snow comes in Evans
- Sep0.5
- Oct3.3
- Nov5.4
- Dec5.6
- Jan5.7
- Feb5.1
- Mar5.1
- Apr3.7
- May0.5
Snow worth clearing runs from October to April, heaviest in January. Start and service a machine in September.
Evans and its neighbours
Evans is number 41 of 53 Colorado towns here for snowfall; Steamboat Springs gets the most at 185 inches.
| Town | Miles | Snow | Two car, paved |
|---|---|---|---|
| Greeley, CO | 5 | 35 in | Cordless single-stage |
| Johnstown, CO | 9 | 47 in | Gas single-stage |
| Berthoud, CO | 12 | 47 in | Gas single-stage |
| Severance, CO | 12 | 48 in | Gas single-stage |
| Windsor, CO | 12 | 48 in | Gas single-stage |
| Firestone, CO | 17 | 47 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 Greeley Unc, 4.4 miles from Evans. 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.