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Do you need a snowblower in Fishers, IN?

The machine for a Fishers driveway

Cordless single-stage

Plenty falls in Fishers, about 3.5 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.

A normal Fishers winter

Snow a year
27 in
Storms of 5 in or more
0.9 a winter
Storms of 10 in or more
almost never
Days with snow on the ground
30

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 3.5 tons of snow to move in a season, and a 10 inch storm weighs 2,600 pounds.

When the snow comes in Fishers

  1. Nov0.6
  2. Dec6.7
  3. Jan8.4
  4. Feb7.2
  5. Mar3.6
  6. Apr0.2

Snow worth clearing runs from December to March, heaviest in January. Start and service a machine in November.

Fishers and its neighbours

Fishers is number 24 of 88 Indiana towns here for snowfall; Michigan City gets the most at 65 inches.

TownMilesSnowTwo car, paved
McCordsville, IN527 inCordless single-stage
Noblesville, IN620 inA shovel is enough
Lawrence, IN727 inCordless single-stage
Carmel, IN1020 inA shovel is enough
Westfield, IN1120 inA shovel is enough
Greenfield, IN1620 inA shovel is enough

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 Castleton 2 S, 7.2 miles from Fishers. 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.