Do you need a snowblower in Farragut, TN?
The machine for a Farragut driveway
A shovel is enough
A normal winter drops about 0.5 tons of snow on this driveway in Farragut, 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 Farragut is light enough for one.
How much snow Farragut gets
- Snow a year
- 4 in
- Storms of 5 in or more
- 0.0 a winter
- Storms of 10 in or more
- almost never
- Days with snow on the ground
- 2
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 Farragut waiting a day is often a real option.
On a two car driveway that is about 0.5 tons of snow to move in a season, and a 10 inch storm weighs 2,600 pounds.
When the snow comes in Farragut
- Nov0.1
- Dec0.4
- Jan1.6
- Feb1.3
- Mar0.6
Snow worth clearing runs from January to February, heaviest in January. Buy the shovel before the first fall, when stores still have them.
Farragut and its neighbours
Farragut is number 24 of 65 Tennessee towns here for snowfall; Crossville gets the most at 14 inches.
| Town | Miles | Snow | Two car, paved |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lenoir City, TN | 7 | 4 in | A shovel is enough |
| Oak Ridge, TN | 9 | 4 in | A shovel is enough |
| Alcoa, TN | 13 | 5 in | A shovel is enough |
| Maryville, TN | 14 | 5 in | A shovel is enough |
| Knoxville, TN | 14 | 5 in | A shovel is enough |
| Clinton, TN | 16 | 3 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 Lenoir City, 7.7 miles from Farragut. 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.