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Do you need a snowblower in Lone Tree, CO?

The machine for a Lone Tree driveway

Two-stage snowblower

A storm of 10 inches or more hits Lone Tree about once every 1 winters. That is deeper than a single-stage intake can swallow.

Before you buy, measure the garage door and the storage spot: these machines are wide and heavy.

How much snow Lone Tree gets

Snow a year
64 in
Storms of 5 in or more
3.1 a winter
Storms of 10 in or more
about once every 1 winters
Days with snow on the ground
87

Extreme, among the snowiest towns in the country. That is about 1.8 times 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 8.3 tons of snow to move in a season, and a 10 inch storm weighs 2,600 pounds.

When the snow comes in Lone Tree

  1. Oct6.3
  2. Nov6.1
  3. Dec8.6
  4. Jan8.1
  5. Feb11.6
  6. Mar9.9
  7. Apr10.9
  8. May2.5

Snow worth clearing runs from October to May, heaviest in February. Start and service a machine in September.

Lone Tree and its neighbours

Lone Tree is number 14 of 53 Colorado towns here for snowfall; Steamboat Springs gets the most at 185 inches.

TownMilesSnowTwo car, paved
Centennial, CO464 inTwo-stage snowblower
Castle Pines, CO558 inGas single-stage
Parker, CO564 inTwo-stage snowblower
Greenwood Village, CO664 inTwo-stage snowblower
Littleton, CO934 inGas single-stage
Englewood, CO1034 inGas single-stage

Where these numbers come from

Read next: Single-stage or two-stage and Why storm depth matters more than snowfall.

NOAA 1991 to 2020 climate normals from Highlands Ranch 3.2 ESE, 2.3 miles from Lone Tree. 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.