Do you need a snowblower in Ionia, MI?
Your answer for Ionia
Cordless single-stage
Plenty falls in Ionia, about 7.0 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 Ionia winter brings
- Snow a year
- 54 in
- Storms of 5 in or more
- 1.4 a winter
- Storms of 10 in or more
- almost never
- Days with snow on the ground
- 78
Heavy, more than most snowy cities. That is about 1.5 times 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 7.0 tons of snow to move in a season, and a 10 inch storm weighs 2,600 pounds.
When the snow comes in Ionia
- Oct0.5
- Nov3.6
- Dec14.1
- Jan15.5
- Feb11.9
- Mar7.0
- Apr1.6
Snow worth clearing runs from November to April, heaviest in January. Start and service a machine in October.
Ionia and its neighbours
Ionia is number 22 of 90 Michigan towns here for snowfall; Sault Ste. Marie gets the most at 120 inches.
| Town | Miles | Snow | Two car, paved |
|---|---|---|---|
| Kentwood, MI | 27 | 78 in | Two-stage snowblower |
| East Grand Rapids, MI | 27 | 75 in | Two-stage snowblower |
| Grand Rapids, MI | 29 | 75 in | Two-stage snowblower |
| Lansing, MI | 32 | 50 in | Cordless single-stage |
| Wyoming, MI | 33 | 75 in | Two-stage snowblower |
| East Lansing, MI | 34 | 36 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 Ionia 2SSW, 1.6 miles from Ionia. 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.