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Do you need a snowblower in North Canton, OH?

Your answer for North Canton

Cordless single-stage

Plenty falls in North Canton, about 6.1 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.

What a North Canton winter brings

Snow a year
47 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
46

Moderate, a typical snowy-city winter. That is about 1.3 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 6.1 tons of snow to move in a season, and a 10 inch storm weighs 2,600 pounds.

When the snow comes in North Canton

  1. Oct0.3
  2. Nov3.3
  3. Dec8.9
  4. Jan13.4
  5. Feb12.0
  6. Mar7.6
  7. Apr1.7

Snow worth clearing runs from November to April, heaviest in January. Start and service a machine in October.

North Canton and its neighbours

North Canton is number 52 of 176 Ohio towns here for snowfall; Euclid gets the most at 114 inches.

TownMilesSnowTwo car, paved
Canton, OH532 inCordless single-stage
Green, OH747 inCordless single-stage
Massillon, OH947 inCordless single-stage
New Franklin, OH1147 inCordless single-stage
Barberton, OH1429 inCordless single-stage
Alliance, OH1532 inCordless 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 Akron Canton Regional Airport, 3.5 miles from North Canton. 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.