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Do you need a snowblower in Louisville/Jefferson County, KY?

The machine for a Louisville/Jefferson County driveway

A shovel is enough

A normal winter drops about 2.0 tons of snow on this driveway in Louisville/Jefferson 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 Louisville/Jefferson County is light enough for one.

How much snow Louisville/Jefferson County gets

Snow a year
15 in
Storms of 5 in or more
0.4 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 2.0 tons of snow to move in a season, and a 10 inch storm weighs 2,600 pounds.

When the snow comes in Louisville/Jefferson County

  1. Nov0.4
  2. Dec2.7
  3. Jan4.6
  4. Feb4.7
  5. Mar2.6
  6. 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 Louisville/Jefferson County

Louisville/Jefferson County is number 8 of 42 Kentucky towns here for snowfall; Covington gets the most at 23 inches.

TownMilesSnowTwo car, paved
Jeffersontown, KY515 inA shovel is enough
St. Matthews, KY613 inA shovel is enough
Lyndon, KY713 inA shovel is enough
Shively, KY913 inA shovel is enough
Mount Washington, KY104 inA shovel is enough
Jeffersonville, IN124 inA 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 Louisville Wfo, 3.5 miles from Louisville/Jefferson 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.