Do you need a snowblower in Redmond, OR?
Your answer for Redmond
A shovel is enough
A normal winter drops about 1.5 tons of snow on this driveway in Redmond, 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 Redmond is light enough for one.
How much snow Redmond gets
- Snow a year
- 11 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
- 15
Light, below most snowy cities. A typical snowy US city gets about 3.3 times as much. It tends to stay, so each storm lands on the last one.
On a two car driveway that is about 1.5 tons of snow to move in a season, and a 10 inch storm weighs 2,600 pounds.
When the snow comes in Redmond
- Oct0.1
- Nov1.7
- Dec3.4
- Jan1.6
- Feb3.7
- Mar0.5
- Apr0.2
Snow worth clearing runs from November to February, heaviest in February. Buy the shovel before the first fall, when stores still have them.
Towns near Redmond
Redmond is number 7 of 57 Oregon towns here for snowfall; Baker City gets the most at 79 inches.
| Town | Miles | Snow | Two car, paved |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bend, OR | 15 | 22 in | A shovel is enough |
| Prineville, OR | 16 | 9 in | A shovel is enough |
| Sweet Home, OR | 76 | 0 in | No snowblower |
| Lebanon, OR | 87 | 0 in | No snowblower |
| Springfield, OR | 90 | 1 in | No snowblower |
| Molalla, OR | 92 | 1 in | No 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 Bend 7 NE, 9.9 miles from Redmond. 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.