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Do you need a snowblower in Gainesville, TX?

The machine for a Gainesville driveway

No snowblower

Gainesville averages 3 inches of snow a year. It is gone before it needs moving.

If you are moving to Gainesville from somewhere snowy, you can sell the snowblower before you move.

When the snow comes in Gainesville

  1. Nov0.1
  2. Dec0.3
  3. Jan1.3
  4. Feb0.3
  5. Mar0.6

Inches of new snow per month, averaged over 1991 to 2020.

Towns near Gainesville

Almost no snow falls in Gainesville. In Texas, Amarillo gets the most here at 17 inches.

TownMilesSnowTwo car, paved
Sanger, TX183 inNo snowblower
Denton, TX290 inNo snowblower
Providence Village, TX303 inNo snowblower
Celina, TX303 inNo snowblower
Sherman, TX302 inNo snowblower
Little Elm, TX343 inNo snowblower

Where these numbers come from

Read next: Why storm depth matters more than snowfall and What a winter of snow weighs.

NOAA 1991 to 2020 climate normals from Gainesville 5 ENE, 5.2 miles from Gainesville. 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.