Do you need a snowblower in Kirksville, MO?
The machine for a Kirksville driveway
A shovel is enough
A normal winter drops about 2.5 tons of snow on this driveway in Kirksville, spread over a few light falls. That is shovel work.
Get a wide plastic shovel with a bent handle before the first fall, and if you have a bad back, consider a cordless single-stage instead: the snow in Kirksville is light enough for one.
How much snow Kirksville gets
- Snow a year
- 19 in
- Storms of 5 in or more
- 0.6 a winter
- Storms of 10 in or more
- almost never
- Days with snow on the ground
- 30
Light, below most snowy cities. A typical snowy US city gets about 2.0 times as much. It tends to stay, so each storm lands on the last one.
On a two car driveway that is about 2.5 tons of snow to move in a season, and a 10 inch storm weighs 2,600 pounds.
When the snow comes in Kirksville
- Oct0.1
- Nov1.3
- Dec4.0
- Jan6.0
- Feb4.6
- Mar2.2
- Apr0.8
Snow worth clearing runs from November to March, heaviest in January. Buy the shovel before the first fall, when stores still have them.
Towns near Kirksville
Kirksville is number 5 of 80 Missouri towns here for snowfall; St. Joseph gets the most at 21 inches.
| Town | Miles | Snow | Two car, paved |
|---|---|---|---|
| Moberly, MO | 54 | 15 in | A shovel is enough |
| Ottumwa, IA | 57 | 24 in | Cordless single-stage |
| Quincy, IL | 66 | 17 in | A shovel is enough |
| Hannibal, MO | 71 | 13 in | A shovel is enough |
| Oskaloosa, IA | 76 | 24 in | Cordless single-stage |
| Mexico, MO | 81 | 19 in | A shovel is enough |
Where these numbers come from
Read next: What a winter of snow weighs and Why storm depth matters more than snowfall.
NOAA 1991 to 2020 climate normals from Kirksville, 0.5 miles from Kirksville. 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.
- Days with snow on the ground come from a second nearby station, because the closest one does not record snow depth.