Do you need a snowblower in Pueblo, CO?
The machine for a Pueblo driveway
A shovel is enough
A normal winter drops about 1.9 tons of snow on this driveway in Pueblo, 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 Pueblo is light enough for one.
How much snow Pueblo gets
- Snow a year
- 15 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
- 7
Light, below most snowy cities. A typical snowy US city gets about 2.5 times as much. Most of it melts within a few days, so in Pueblo waiting a day is often a real option.
On a two car driveway that is about 1.9 tons of snow to move in a season, and a 10 inch storm weighs 2,600 pounds.
When the snow comes in Pueblo
- Oct1.4
- Nov3.0
- Dec3.0
- Jan2.4
- Feb2.5
- Mar1.9
- Apr0.6
Snow worth clearing runs from October to March, heaviest in November. Buy the shovel before the first fall, when stores still have them.
Pueblo and its neighbours
Pueblo is number 53 of 53 Colorado towns here for snowfall; Steamboat Springs gets the most at 185 inches.
| Town | Miles | Snow | Two car, paved |
|---|---|---|---|
| Fountain, CO | 29 | 33 in | Cordless single-stage |
| Cañon City, CO | 35 | 38 in | Cordless single-stage |
| Colorado Springs, CO | 42 | 55 in | Gas single-stage |
| Monument, CO | 57 | 121 in | Two-stage snowblower |
| Castle Rock, CO | 78 | 58 in | Gas single-stage |
| Castle Pines, CO | 84 | 58 in | Gas single-stage |
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 Pueblo Rsvr, 5.8 miles from Pueblo. 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.