Do you need a snowblower in Fairmont, WV?
Your answer for Fairmont
Cordless single-stage
Plenty falls in Fairmont, about 3.3 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 Fairmont gets
- Snow a year
- 26 in
- Storms of 5 in or more
- 0.8 a winter
- Storms of 10 in or more
- almost never
- Days with snow on the ground
- 32
Moderate, a typical snowy-city winter. 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 3.3 tons of snow to move in a season, and a 10 inch storm weighs 2,600 pounds.
When the snow comes in Fairmont
- Oct0.1
- Nov0.9
- Dec3.6
- Jan9.7
- Feb7.7
- Mar3.3
- Apr0.2
Snow worth clearing runs from December to March, heaviest in January. Start and service a machine in November.
Fairmont and its neighbours
Fairmont is number 5 of 13 West Virginia towns here for snowfall; Weirton gets the most at 44 inches.
| Town | Miles | Snow | Two car, paved |
|---|---|---|---|
| Morgantown, WV | 15 | 14 in | A shovel is enough |
| Clarksburg, WV | 18 | 24 in | Cordless single-stage |
| Washington, PA | 48 | 32 in | Cordless single-stage |
| Wheeling, WV | 50 | 15 in | A shovel is enough |
| Jefferson Hills, PA | 58 | 21 in | A shovel is enough |
| Bethel Park, PA | 59 | 32 in | Cordless 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 Tygart Dam, 13.0 miles from Fairmont. 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.