Do you need a snowblower in Oregon, OH?
Your answer for Oregon
Cordless single-stage
Plenty falls in Oregon, about 4.9 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.
A normal Oregon winter
- Snow a year
- 37 in
- Storms of 5 in or more
- 1.1 a winter
- Storms of 10 in or more
- about once every 10 winters
- Days with snow on the ground
- 40
Moderate, a typical snowy-city winter. About 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 4.9 tons of snow to move in a season, and a 10 inch storm weighs 2,600 pounds.
When the snow comes in Oregon
- Oct0.1
- Nov1.7
- Dec6.5
- Jan12.3
- Feb10.2
- Mar5.3
- Apr1.3
Snow worth clearing runs from November to April, heaviest in January. Start and service a machine in October.
Towns near Oregon
Oregon is number 72 of 176 Ohio towns here for snowfall; Euclid gets the most at 114 inches.
| Town | Miles | Snow | Two car, paved |
|---|---|---|---|
| Toledo, OH | 7 | 37 in | Cordless single-stage |
| Maumee, OH | 13 | 37 in | Cordless single-stage |
| Perrysburg, OH | 13 | 37 in | Cordless single-stage |
| Sylvania, OH | 15 | 37 in | Cordless single-stage |
| Monroe, MI | 18 | 41 in | Gas single-stage |
| Bowling Green, OH | 22 | 21 in | A shovel is enough |
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 Toledo Express Airport, 19.3 miles from Oregon. 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.