Do you need a snowblower in Prescott Valley, AZ?
Your answer for Prescott Valley
A shovel is enough
A normal winter drops about 1.3 tons of snow on this driveway in Prescott Valley, 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 Prescott Valley is light enough for one.
A normal Prescott Valley winter
- Snow a year
- 10 in
- Storms of 5 in or more
- 0.4 a winter
- Storms of 10 in or more
- almost never
- Days with snow on the ground
- 4
Light, below most snowy cities. A typical snowy US city gets about 3.3 times as much. Most of it melts within a few days, so in Prescott Valley waiting a day is often a real option.
On a two car driveway that is about 1.3 tons of snow to move in a season, and a 10 inch storm weighs 2,600 pounds.
When the snow comes in Prescott Valley
- Nov0.9
- Dec1.4
- Jan1.9
- Feb3.1
- Mar2.5
- Apr0.4
Snow worth clearing runs from December to March, heaviest in February. Buy the shovel before the first fall, when stores still have them.
Prescott Valley and its neighbours
Prescott Valley is number 4 of 44 Arizona towns here for snowfall; Flagstaff gets the most at 90 inches.
| Town | Miles | Snow | Two car, paved |
|---|---|---|---|
| Prescott, AZ | 7 | 10 in | A shovel is enough |
| Chino Valley, AZ | 11 | 10 in | A shovel is enough |
| Cottonwood, AZ | 22 | 1 in | No snowblower |
| Camp Verde, AZ | 26 | 0 in | No snowblower |
| Peoria, AZ | 56 | 0 in | No snowblower |
| Flagstaff, AZ | 57 | 90 in | Two-stage snowblower |
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 Prescott, 6.7 miles from Prescott Valley. 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.