Do you need a snowblower in Lincoln, NE?
Your answer for Lincoln
Cordless single-stage
Plenty falls in Lincoln, about 3.4 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.
How much snow Lincoln gets
- Snow a year
- 26 in
- Storms of 5 in or more
- 1.1 a winter
- Storms of 10 in or more
- almost never
- Days with snow on the ground
- 38
Moderate, a typical snowy-city winter. A typical snowy US city gets about 1.4 times as much. It tends to stay, so each storm lands on the last one.
On a two car driveway that is about 3.4 tons of snow to move in a season, and a 10 inch storm weighs 2,600 pounds.
When the snow comes in Lincoln
- Oct0.9
- Nov1.5
- Dec5.3
- Jan6.5
- Feb7.1
- Mar3.4
- Apr1.2
- May0.1
Snow worth clearing runs from November to April, heaviest in February. Start and service a machine in October.
Lincoln and its neighbours
Lincoln is number 11 of 16 Nebraska towns here for snowfall; Scottsbluff gets the most at 40 inches.
| Town | Miles | Snow | Two car, paved |
|---|---|---|---|
| Beatrice, NE | 37 | 19 in | A shovel is enough |
| Papillion, NE | 39 | 36 in | Gas single-stage |
| La Vista, NE | 41 | 36 in | Gas single-stage |
| Fremont, NE | 45 | 32 in | Gas single-stage |
| Bellevue, NE | 45 | 25 in | Cordless single-stage |
| Omaha, NE | 45 | 27 in | Cordless single-stage |
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 Lincoln Municipal Airport, 4.7 miles from Lincoln. 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.