Do you need a snowblower in Kokomo, IN?
Your answer for Kokomo
Cordless single-stage
Plenty falls in Kokomo, about 4.4 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.
A normal Kokomo winter
- Snow a year
- 34 in
- Storms of 5 in or more
- 1.4 a winter
- Storms of 10 in or more
- about once every 10 winters
- Days with snow on the ground
- 36
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 4.4 tons of snow to move in a season, and a 10 inch storm weighs 2,600 pounds.
When the snow comes in Kokomo
- Oct0.1
- Nov1.5
- Dec6.2
- Jan10.6
- Feb9.8
- Mar5.2
- Apr0.7
Snow worth clearing runs from November to March, heaviest in January. Start and service a machine in October.
Kokomo and its neighbours
Kokomo is number 14 of 88 Indiana towns here for snowfall; Michigan City gets the most at 65 inches.
| Town | Miles | Snow | Two car, paved |
|---|---|---|---|
| Peru, IN | 20 | 21 in | A shovel is enough |
| Logansport, IN | 23 | 19 in | A shovel is enough |
| Frankfort, IN | 25 | 24 in | Cordless single-stage |
| Marion, IN | 25 | 25 in | Cordless single-stage |
| Wabash, IN | 28 | 20 in | A shovel is enough |
| Westfield, IN | 30 | 20 in | A shovel is enough |
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 Kokomo 3 WSW, 2.6 miles from Kokomo. 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.