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Do you need a snowblower in Kenosha, WI?

Your answer for Kenosha

Gas single-stage

Kenosha gets enough snow that shovelling it all is a real job, about 4.7 tons a winter on this driveway, but storms over 8 inches are uncommon.

Before you buy, check the intake height against the deepest storm above, and plan to clear before the city plow leaves its ridge of heavy slush at the end of the drive.

A normal Kenosha winter

Snow a year
36 in
Storms of 5 in or more
1.7 a winter
Storms of 10 in or more
about once every 3 winters
Days with snow on the ground
44

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 Kenosha

  1. Oct0.1
  2. Nov1.5
  3. Dec7.0
  4. Jan11.3
  5. Feb9.8
  6. Mar5.7
  7. Apr0.8

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

Towns near Kenosha

Kenosha is number 92 of 98 Wisconsin towns here for snowfall; Weston gets the most at 64 inches.

TownMilesSnowTwo car, paved
Pleasant Prairie, WI436 inGas single-stage
Mount Pleasant, WI841 inGas single-stage
Zion, IL936 inGas single-stage
Beach Park, IL1036 inGas single-stage
Racine, WI1041 inGas single-stage
Antioch, IL1243 inGas 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 Kenosha, 3.8 miles from Kenosha. 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.