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Do you need a snowblower in Maryland Heights, MO?

The machine for a Maryland Heights driveway

A shovel is enough

A normal winter drops about 1.1 tons of snow on this driveway in Maryland Heights, 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 Maryland Heights is light enough for one.

A normal Maryland Heights winter

Snow a year
8 in
Storms of 5 in or more
0.3 a winter
Storms of 10 in or more
almost never
Days with snow on the ground
17

Light, below most snowy cities. A typical snowy US city gets about 5.0 times as much. It tends to stay, so each storm lands on the last one.

On a two car driveway that is about 1.1 tons of snow to move in a season, and a 10 inch storm weighs 2,600 pounds.

When the snow comes in Maryland Heights

  1. Nov0.4
  2. Dec2.1
  3. Jan4.2
  4. Feb1.1
  5. Mar0.3

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

Towns near Maryland Heights

Maryland Heights is number 63 of 80 Missouri towns here for snowfall; St. Joseph gets the most at 21 inches.

TownMilesSnowTwo car, paved
Creve Coeur, MO48 inA shovel is enough
St. Ann, MO517 inA shovel is enough
Bridgeton, MO517 inA shovel is enough
Overland, MO617 inA shovel is enough
St. Charles, MO69 inA shovel is enough
Town and Country, MO68 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 St Charles 7 SSW, 3.5 miles from Maryland Heights. 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.