Do you need a snowblower in Leesburg, VA?
Your answer for Leesburg
A shovel is enough
A normal winter drops about 2.7 tons of snow on this driveway in Leesburg, 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 Leesburg is light enough for one.
A normal Leesburg winter
- Snow a year
- 21 in
- Storms of 5 in or more
- 0.9 a winter
- Storms of 10 in or more
- about once every 5 winters
- Days with snow on the ground
- 14
Light, below most snowy cities. A typical snowy US city gets about 1.7 times as much. It tends to stay, so each storm lands on the last one.
On a two car driveway that is about 2.7 tons of snow to move in a season, and a 10 inch storm weighs 2,600 pounds.
When the snow comes in Leesburg
- Nov0.3
- Dec2.8
- Jan6.9
- Feb7.0
- Mar3.9
- Apr0.1
Snow worth clearing runs from December to March, heaviest in February. Buy the shovel before the first fall, when stores still have them.
Towns near Leesburg
Leesburg is number 8 of 39 Virginia towns here for snowfall; Blacksburg gets the most at 25 inches.
| Town | Miles | Snow | Two car, paved |
|---|---|---|---|
| Herndon, VA | 13 | 21 in | A shovel is enough |
| Gaithersburg, MD | 20 | 33 in | Two-stage snowblower |
| Vienna, VA | 22 | 19 in | A shovel is enough |
| Rockville, MD | 22 | 6 in | A shovel is enough |
| Fairfax, VA | 22 | 19 in | A shovel is enough |
| Manassas Park, VA | 24 | 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 Washington Dc Dulles Airport, 12.5 miles from Leesburg. 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.