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Do you need a snowblower in Lewiston, ID?

Your answer for Lewiston

A shovel is enough

A normal winter drops about 1.7 tons of snow on this driveway in Lewiston, 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 Lewiston is light enough for one.

What a Lewiston winter brings

Snow a year
13 in
Storms of 5 in or more
0.2 a winter
Storms of 10 in or more
almost never
Days with snow on the ground
11

Light, below most snowy cities. A typical snowy US city gets about 2.5 times as much. It tends to stay, so each storm lands on the last one.

On a two car driveway that is about 1.7 tons of snow to move in a season, and a 10 inch storm weighs 2,600 pounds.

When the snow comes in Lewiston

  1. Nov1.3
  2. Dec4.1
  3. Jan2.7
  4. Feb3.8
  5. Mar0.8

Snow worth clearing runs from November to February, heaviest in December. Buy the shovel before the first fall, when stores still have them.

Towns near Lewiston

Lewiston is number 22 of 26 Idaho towns here for snowfall; Rexburg gets the most at 70 inches.

TownMilesSnowTwo car, paved
Moscow, ID2351 inGas single-stage
Pullman, WA2533 inCordless single-stage
Walla Walla, WA687 inA shovel is enough
Cheney, WA8145 inCordless single-stage
Liberty Lake, WA8845 inCordless single-stage
Spokane Valley, WA8845 inCordless single-stage

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 Lewiston Nez Perce County Airport, 1.7 miles from Lewiston. 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.