Do you need a snowblower in Oklahoma City, OK?
Your answer for Oklahoma City
A shovel is enough
A normal winter drops about 0.9 tons of snow on this driveway in Oklahoma City, 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 Oklahoma City is light enough for one.
How much snow Oklahoma City gets
- Snow a year
- 7 in
- Storms of 5 in or more
- 0.2 a winter
- Storms of 10 in or more
- almost never
- Days with snow on the ground
- 5
Light, below most snowy cities. A typical snowy US city gets about 5.0 times as much. Most of it melts within a few days, so in Oklahoma City waiting a day is often a real option.
On a two car driveway that is about 0.9 tons of snow to move in a season, and a 10 inch storm weighs 2,600 pounds.
When the snow comes in Oklahoma City
- Nov0.5
- Dec1.8
- Jan1.8
- Feb1.8
- Mar0.8
Snow worth clearing runs from December to February, heaviest in December. Buy the shovel before the first fall, when stores still have them.
Oklahoma City and its neighbours
Oklahoma City is number 17 of 45 Oklahoma towns here for snowfall; Woodward gets the most at 15 inches.
| Town | Miles | Snow | Two car, paved |
|---|---|---|---|
| Del City, OK | 4 | 7 in | A shovel is enough |
| Warr Acres, OK | 7 | 7 in | A shovel is enough |
| Bethany, OK | 8 | 7 in | A shovel is enough |
| Midwest City, OK | 8 | 4 in | A shovel is enough |
| Moore, OK | 10 | 7 in | A shovel is enough |
| Mustang, OK | 13 | 7 in | A 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 Oklahoma City Will Rogers Airport, 7.3 miles from Oklahoma City. 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.