Do you need a snowblower in Plainfield, IL?
The machine for a Plainfield driveway
Cordless single-stage
Plenty falls in Plainfield, about 3.8 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 Plainfield winter brings
- Snow a year
- 29 in
- Storms of 5 in or more
- 0.8 a winter
- Storms of 10 in or more
- almost never
- Days with snow on the ground
- 47
Moderate, a typical snowy-city winter. A typical snowy US city gets about 1.3 times as much. It tends to stay, so each storm lands on the last one.
On a two car driveway that is about 3.8 tons of snow to move in a season, and a 10 inch storm weighs 2,600 pounds.
When the snow comes in Plainfield
- Nov1.0
- Dec7.6
- Jan9.0
- Feb8.1
- Mar3.0
- Apr0.5
Snow worth clearing runs from November to March, heaviest in January. Start and service a machine in October.
Towns near Plainfield
Plainfield is number 129 of 225 Illinois towns here for snowfall; St. Charles gets the most at 46 inches.
| Town | Miles | Snow | Two car, paved |
|---|---|---|---|
| Romeoville, IL | 7 | 33 in | Cordless single-stage |
| Crest Hill, IL | 7 | 33 in | Cordless single-stage |
| Shorewood, IL | 7 | 17 in | A shovel is enough |
| Oswego, IL | 7 | 28 in | Cordless single-stage |
| Bolingbrook, IL | 8 | 29 in | Cordless single-stage |
| Joliet, IL | 8 | 17 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 Plainfield 3 NE, 2.4 miles from Plainfield. 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.