Do you need a snowblower in Grantsville, UT?
Your answer for Grantsville
Cordless single-stage
Plenty falls in Grantsville, about 4.3 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.
A normal Grantsville winter
- Snow a year
- 33 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
- 41
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 4.3 tons of snow to move in a season, and a 10 inch storm weighs 2,600 pounds.
When the snow comes in Grantsville
- Oct0.1
- Nov5.0
- Dec7.9
- Jan7.2
- Feb7.5
- Mar3.5
- Apr1.9
Snow worth clearing runs from November to April, heaviest in December. Start and service a machine in October.
Grantsville and its neighbours
Grantsville is number 49 of 67 Utah towns here for snowfall; Bountiful gets the most at 119 inches.
| Town | Miles | Snow | Two car, paved |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tooele, UT | 10 | 75 in | Two-stage snowblower |
| Magna, UT | 18 | 23 in | Cordless single-stage |
| Kearns, UT | 24 | 52 in | Gas single-stage |
| West Jordan, UT | 25 | 56 in | Gas single-stage |
| West Valley City, UT | 25 | 52 in | Gas single-stage |
| Herriman, UT | 25 | 26 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 Grantsville 2W, 2.1 miles from Grantsville. 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.