Do you need a snowblower in Lexington-Fayette urban county, KY?
The machine for a Lexington-Fayette urban county driveway
A shovel is enough
A normal winter drops about 1.9 tons of snow on this driveway in Lexington-Fayette urban county, 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 Lexington-Fayette urban county is light enough for one.
A normal Lexington-Fayette urban county winter
- Snow a year
- 15 in
- Storms of 5 in or more
- 0.4 a winter
- Storms of 10 in or more
- about once every 10 winters
- Days with snow on the ground
- 12
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 1.9 tons of snow to move in a season, and a 10 inch storm weighs 2,600 pounds.
When the snow comes in Lexington-Fayette urban county
- Nov0.4
- Dec1.9
- Jan4.7
- Feb4.5
- Mar2.8
- Apr0.2
Snow worth clearing runs from December to March, heaviest in January. Buy the shovel before the first fall, when stores still have them.
Towns near Lexington-Fayette urban county
Lexington-Fayette urban county is number 11 of 42 Kentucky towns here for snowfall; Covington gets the most at 23 inches.
| Town | Miles | Snow | Two car, paved |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nicholasville, KY | 12 | 10 in | A shovel is enough |
| Versailles, KY | 15 | 15 in | A shovel is enough |
| Winchester, KY | 15 | 9 in | A shovel is enough |
| Paris, KY | 15 | 9 in | A shovel is enough |
| Georgetown, KY | 16 | 15 in | A shovel is enough |
| Richmond, KY | 23 | 1 in | No snowblower |
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 Lexington Bluegrass Airport, 8.0 miles from Lexington-Fayette urban county. 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.