Do you need a snowblower in Huntington, IN?
Your answer for Huntington
Cordless single-stage
Plenty falls in Huntington, about 3.4 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.
What a Huntington winter brings
- Snow a year
- 26 in
- Storms of 5 in or more
- 0.9 a winter
- Storms of 10 in or more
- almost never
- Days with snow on the ground
- 35
Moderate, a typical snowy-city winter. A typical snowy US city gets about 1.4 times as much. It tends to stay, so each storm lands on the last one.
On a two car driveway that is about 3.4 tons of snow to move in a season, and a 10 inch storm weighs 2,600 pounds.
When the snow comes in Huntington
- Nov1.0
- Dec5.1
- Jan9.9
- Feb6.7
- Mar2.8
- Apr0.4
Snow worth clearing runs from November to March, heaviest in January. Start and service a machine in October.
Huntington and its neighbours
Huntington is number 37 of 88 Indiana towns here for snowfall; Michigan City gets the most at 65 inches.
| Town | Miles | Snow | Two car, paved |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wabash, IN | 18 | 20 in | A shovel is enough |
| Columbia City, IN | 20 | 21 in | A shovel is enough |
| Bluffton, IN | 20 | 23 in | Cordless single-stage |
| Fort Wayne, IN | 24 | 34 in | Cordless single-stage |
| Marion, IN | 24 | 25 in | Cordless single-stage |
| New Haven, IN | 29 | 34 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 Huntington, 1.8 miles from Huntington. 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.