Do you need a snowblower in Grand Rapids, MN?
Your answer for Grand Rapids
Cordless single-stage
Plenty falls in Grand Rapids, about 7.7 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 Grand Rapids winter
- Snow a year
- 60 in
- Storms of 5 in or more
- 1.4 a winter
- Storms of 10 in or more
- about once every 5 winters
- Days with snow on the ground
- 129
Heavy, more than most snowy cities. That is about 1.7 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 7.7 tons of snow to move in a season, and a 10 inch storm weighs 2,600 pounds.
When the snow comes in Grand Rapids
- Oct2.0
- Nov9.0
- Dec13.4
- Jan12.2
- Feb9.7
- Mar7.5
- Apr5.6
- May0.2
Snow worth clearing runs from October to April, heaviest in December. Start and service a machine in September.
Towns near Grand Rapids
Grand Rapids is number 5 of 103 Minnesota towns here for snowfall; Hermantown gets the most at 90 inches.
| Town | Miles | Snow | Two car, paved |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hibbing, MN | 30 | 60 in | Cordless single-stage |
| Cloquet, MN | 60 | 71 in | Two-stage snowblower |
| Bemidji, MN | 65 | 49 in | Gas single-stage |
| Hermantown, MN | 68 | 90 in | Two-stage snowblower |
| Brainerd, MN | 69 | 48 in | Gas single-stage |
| Duluth, MN | 73 | 56 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 Grand Rpds Forest Lab, 1.7 miles from Grand Rapids. 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.