Do you need a snowblower in Flint, MI?
The machine for a Flint driveway
Cordless single-stage
Plenty falls in Flint, about 5.3 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.
What a Flint winter brings
- Snow a year
- 40 in
- Storms of 5 in or more
- 1.3 a winter
- Storms of 10 in or more
- about once every 10 winters
- Days with snow on the ground
- 58
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 5.3 tons of snow to move in a season, and a 10 inch storm weighs 2,600 pounds.
When the snow comes in Flint
- Oct0.1
- Nov1.7
- Dec9.6
- Jan13.1
- Feb10.4
- Mar4.3
- Apr1.2
Snow worth clearing runs from November to April, heaviest in January. Start and service a machine in October.
Flint and its neighbours
Flint is number 47 of 90 Michigan towns here for snowfall; Sault Ste. Marie gets the most at 120 inches.
| Town | Miles | Snow | Two car, paved |
|---|---|---|---|
| Burton, MI | 4 | 52 in | Gas single-stage |
| Fenton, MI | 16 | 52 in | Gas single-stage |
| Owosso, MI | 25 | 38 in | Cordless single-stage |
| Saginaw, MI | 30 | 41 in | Gas single-stage |
| Pontiac, MI | 33 | 36 in | Cordless single-stage |
| Auburn Hills, MI | 33 | 36 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 Flint 7W, 4.0 miles from Flint. 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.