Do you need a snowblower in Fremont, OH?
What clears snow in Fremont
Cordless single-stage
Plenty falls in Fremont, about 3.4 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 Fremont winter
- Snow a year
- 26 in
- Storms of 5 in or more
- 1.0 a winter
- Storms of 10 in or more
- almost never
- Days with snow on the ground
- 34
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 3.4 tons of snow to move in a season, and a 10 inch storm weighs 2,600 pounds.
When the snow comes in Fremont
- Nov0.9
- Dec5.3
- Jan8.4
- Feb6.9
- Mar3.7
- Apr1.0
Snow worth clearing runs from December to April, heaviest in January. Start and service a machine in November.
Fremont and its neighbours
Fremont is number 101 of 176 Ohio towns here for snowfall; Euclid gets the most at 114 inches.
| Town | Miles | Snow | Two car, paved |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tiffin, OH | 17 | 30 in | Cordless single-stage |
| Fostoria, OH | 20 | 30 in | Cordless single-stage |
| Sandusky, OH | 22 | 33 in | Cordless single-stage |
| Oregon, OH | 27 | 37 in | Cordless single-stage |
| Norwalk, OH | 27 | 33 in | Cordless single-stage |
| Bowling Green, OH | 28 | 21 in | A 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 Fremont, 1.4 miles from Fremont. 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.