Do you need a snowblower in Greer, SC?
Your answer for Greer
A shovel is enough
A normal winter drops about 0.5 tons of snow on this driveway in Greer, spread over a few light falls. That is shovel work.
Get a wide plastic shovel with a bent handle before the first fall, and if you have a bad back, consider a cordless single-stage instead: the snow in Greer is light enough for one.
How much snow Greer gets
- Snow a year
- 4 in
- Storms of 5 in or more
- 0.0 a winter
- Storms of 10 in or more
- almost never
- Days with snow on the ground
- 2
Light, below most snowy cities. A typical snowy US city gets about 10.0 times as much. Most of it melts within a few days, so in Greer waiting a day is often a real option.
On a two car driveway that is about 0.5 tons of snow to move in a season, and a 10 inch storm weighs 2,600 pounds.
When the snow comes in Greer
- Nov0.1
- Dec0.6
- Jan1.6
- Feb1.0
- Mar0.6
Snow worth clearing runs from January to February, heaviest in January. Buy the shovel before the first fall, when stores still have them.
Towns near Greer
Greer is number 2 of 42 South Carolina towns here for snowfall; Greenville gets the most at 4 inches.
| Town | Miles | Snow | Two car, paved |
|---|---|---|---|
| Greenville, SC | 10 | 4 in | A shovel is enough |
| Mauldin, SC | 11 | 4 in | A shovel is enough |
| Simpsonville, SC | 14 | 0 in | No snowblower |
| Fountain Inn, SC | 16 | 0 in | No snowblower |
| Spartanburg, SC | 17 | 1 in | No snowblower |
| Easley, SC | 22 | 1 in | No snowblower |
Where these numbers come from
Read next: What a winter of snow weighs and Why storm depth matters more than snowfall.
NOAA 1991 to 2020 climate normals from Greer, 3.4 miles from Greer. 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.