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Do you need a snowblower in River Falls, WI?

The machine for a River Falls driveway

Gas single-stage

River Falls gets enough snow that shovelling it all is a real job, about 6.5 tons a winter on this driveway, but storms over 8 inches are uncommon.

Before you buy, check the intake height against the deepest storm above, and plan to clear before the city plow leaves its ridge of heavy slush at the end of the drive.

What a River Falls winter brings

Snow a year
50 in
Storms of 5 in or more
2.8 a winter
Storms of 10 in or more
about once every 3 winters
Days with snow on the ground
101

Heavy, more than most snowy cities. That is about 1.4 times what a typical snowy US city gets. It tends to stay, so each storm lands on the last one.

On a two car driveway that is about 6.5 tons of snow to move in a season, and a 10 inch storm weighs 2,600 pounds.

When the snow comes in River Falls

  1. Oct0.6
  2. Nov2.3
  3. Dec13.7
  4. Jan8.1
  5. Feb12.6
  6. Mar6.9
  7. Apr4.7
  8. May0.8

Snow worth clearing runs from November to April, heaviest in December. Start and service a machine in October.

River Falls and its neighbours

River Falls is number 28 of 98 Wisconsin towns here for snowfall; Weston gets the most at 64 inches.

TownMilesSnowTwo car, paved
Hudson, WI950 inGas single-stage
Hastings, MN1441 inGas single-stage
Cottage Grove, MN1541 inGas single-stage
Woodbury, MN1540 inCordless single-stage
Lake Elmo, MN1640 inCordless single-stage
Stillwater, MN1750 inGas single-stage

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 Roberts Wwtp, 8.2 miles from River Falls. 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.