Do you need a snowblower in Hartford, WI?
Your answer for Hartford
Cordless single-stage
Plenty falls in Hartford, about 4.7 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 Hartford winter
- Snow a year
- 36 in
- Storms of 5 in or more
- 1.2 a winter
- Storms of 10 in or more
- almost never
- Days with snow on the ground
- 74
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 4.7 tons of snow to move in a season, and a 10 inch storm weighs 2,600 pounds.
When the snow comes in Hartford
- Oct0.3
- Nov1.1
- Dec10.1
- Jan10.0
- Feb9.1
- Mar4.0
- Apr1.4
- May0.3
Snow worth clearing runs from November to April, heaviest in December. Start and service a machine in October.
Hartford and its neighbours
Hartford is number 91 of 98 Wisconsin towns here for snowfall; Weston gets the most at 64 inches.
| Town | Miles | Snow | Two car, paved |
|---|---|---|---|
| Richfield, WI | 9 | 54 in | Gas single-stage |
| West Bend, WI | 12 | 54 in | Gas single-stage |
| Lisbon, WI | 13 | 54 in | Gas single-stage |
| Germantown, WI | 14 | 54 in | Gas single-stage |
| Sussex, WI | 15 | 54 in | Gas single-stage |
| Hartland, WI | 15 | 37 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 Hartford Wwtp, 1.8 miles from Hartford. 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.