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Do you need a snowblower in Hazel Park, MI?

The machine for a Hazel Park driveway

Cordless single-stage

Plenty falls in Hazel Park, about 3.6 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.

How much snow Hazel Park gets

Snow a year
28 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
50

Moderate, a typical snowy-city winter. A typical snowy US city gets about 1.3 times as much. It tends to stay, so each storm lands on the last one.

On a two car driveway that is about 3.6 tons of snow to move in a season, and a 10 inch storm weighs 2,600 pounds.

When the snow comes in Hazel Park

  1. Nov0.4
  2. Dec6.9
  3. Jan9.4
  4. Feb7.4
  5. Mar3.5
  6. Apr0.3

Snow worth clearing runs from December to March, heaviest in January. Start and service a machine in November.

Hazel Park and its neighbours

Hazel Park is number 87 of 90 Michigan towns here for snowfall; Sault Ste. Marie gets the most at 120 inches.

TownMilesSnowTwo car, paved
Ferndale, MI231 inCordless single-stage
Madison Heights, MI336 inCordless single-stage
Royal Oak, MI436 inCordless single-stage
Warren, MI428 inCordless single-stage
Oak Park, MI436 inGas single-stage
Hamtramck, MI528 inCordless 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 Grosse Pointe Farms, 11.3 miles from Hazel Park. 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.