Do you need a snowblower in Fernley, NV?
Your answer for Fernley
A shovel is enough
A normal winter drops about 0.6 tons of snow on this driveway in Fernley, 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 Fernley is light enough for one.
How much snow Fernley gets
- Snow a year
- 5 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 Fernley 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 Fernley
- Nov0.3
- Dec1.4
- Jan1.8
- Feb0.7
- Mar0.3
Snow worth clearing runs from December to January, heaviest in January. Buy the shovel before the first fall, when stores still have them.
Towns near Fernley
Fernley is number 5 of 10 Nevada towns here for snowfall; Elko gets the most at 41 inches.
| Town | Miles | Snow | Two car, paved |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sparks, NV | 28 | 7 in | A shovel is enough |
| Reno, NV | 35 | 33 in | Gas single-stage |
| Carson, NV | 41 | 14 in | A shovel is enough |
| Truckee, CA | 56 | 207 in | Two-stage snowblower |
| South Lake Tahoe, CA | 61 | 22 in | A shovel is enough |
| Susanville, CA | 97 | 109 in | Two-stage snowblower |
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 Fallon Exp Station, 23.0 miles from Fernley. 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.