Do you need a snowblower in Ponca City, OK?
The machine for a Ponca City driveway
A shovel is enough
A normal winter drops about 1.0 tons of snow on this driveway in Ponca 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 Ponca City is light enough for one.
What a Ponca City winter brings
- Snow a year
- 8 in
- Storms of 5 in or more
- 0.5 a winter
- Storms of 10 in or more
- about once every 10 winters
- Days with snow on the ground
- 8
Light, below most snowy cities. A typical snowy US city gets about 5.0 times as much. It tends to stay, so each storm lands on the last one.
On a two car driveway that is about 1.0 tons of snow to move in a season, and a 10 inch storm weighs 2,600 pounds.
When the snow comes in Ponca City
- Nov0.1
- Dec2.6
- Jan2.0
- Feb1.7
- Mar1.4
- Apr0.1
Snow worth clearing runs from December to March, heaviest in December. Buy the shovel before the first fall, when stores still have them.
Towns near Ponca City
Ponca City is number 12 of 45 Oklahoma towns here for snowfall; Woodward gets the most at 15 inches.
| Town | Miles | Snow | Two car, paved |
|---|---|---|---|
| Arkansas City, KS | 24 | 6 in | A shovel is enough |
| Winfield, KS | 36 | 9 in | A shovel is enough |
| Stillwater, OK | 41 | 8 in | A shovel is enough |
| Enid, OK | 50 | 9 in | A shovel is enough |
| Derby, KS | 59 | 8 in | A shovel is enough |
| Haysville, KS | 61 | 8 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 Blackwell 1SSW, 13.1 miles from Ponca 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.