Do you need a snowblower in Oxford, OH?
Your answer for Oxford
Cordless single-stage
Plenty falls in Oxford, about 3.2 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 Oxford winter
- Snow a year
- 25 in
- Storms of 5 in or more
- 0.3 a winter
- Storms of 10 in or more
- about once every 10 winters
- Days with snow on the ground
- 32
Moderate, a typical snowy-city winter. A typical snowy US city gets about 1.4 times as much. It tends to stay, so each storm lands on the last one.
On a two car driveway that is about 3.2 tons of snow to move in a season, and a 10 inch storm weighs 2,600 pounds.
When the snow comes in Oxford
- Oct0.2
- Nov1.0
- Dec6.6
- Jan8.6
- Feb4.8
- Mar3.4
- Apr0.3
Snow worth clearing runs from November to March, heaviest in January. Start and service a machine in October.
Oxford and its neighbours
Oxford is number 109 of 176 Ohio towns here for snowfall; Euclid gets the most at 114 inches.
| Town | Miles | Snow | Two car, paved |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hamilton, OH | 12 | 10 in | A shovel is enough |
| Trenton, OH | 15 | 10 in | A shovel is enough |
| Fairfield, OH | 16 | 16 in | A shovel is enough |
| Harrison, OH | 17 | 11 in | A shovel is enough |
| Forest Park, OH | 19 | 16 in | A shovel is enough |
| Middletown, OH | 20 | 10 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 Liberty 3 SSE, 11.1 miles from Oxford. 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.