Do you need a snowblower in Fox Crossing, WI?
The machine for a Fox Crossing driveway
Gas single-stage
Fox Crossing gets enough snow that shovelling it all is a real job, about 6.4 tons a winter on this driveway, but storms over 8 inches are uncommon.
Before you buy, check the intake height against the deepest storm above, and plan to clear before the city plow leaves its ridge of heavy slush at the end of the drive.
What a Fox Crossing winter brings
- Snow a year
- 49 in
- Storms of 5 in or more
- 1.8 a winter
- Storms of 10 in or more
- about once every 10 winters
- Days with snow on the ground
- 83
Heavy, more than most snowy cities. That is about 1.4 times 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 6.4 tons of snow to move in a season, and a 10 inch storm weighs 2,600 pounds.
When the snow comes in Fox Crossing
- Oct0.3
- Nov2.4
- Dec11.6
- Jan12.6
- Feb11.2
- Mar7.2
- Apr4.0
- May0.1
Snow worth clearing runs from November to April, heaviest in January. Start and service a machine in October.
Towns near Fox Crossing
Fox Crossing is number 33 of 98 Wisconsin towns here for snowfall; Weston gets the most at 64 inches.
| Town | Miles | Snow | Two car, paved |
|---|---|---|---|
| Menasha, WI | 3 | 49 in | Gas single-stage |
| Neenah, WI | 4 | 49 in | Gas single-stage |
| Greenville, WI | 5 | 49 in | Gas single-stage |
| Appleton, WI | 6 | 49 in | Gas single-stage |
| Little Chute, WI | 9 | 49 in | Gas single-stage |
| Harrison, WI | 9 | 49 in | Gas 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 Appleton, 4.2 miles from Fox Crossing. 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.