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Do you need a snowblower in Roseville, MI?

Your answer for Roseville

Cordless single-stage

Plenty falls in Roseville, about 3.6 tons a winter on this driveway, but it comes in shallow storms a small cordless machine can take in.

Before you buy, check the battery is rated to clear the whole driveway in one charge in the cold, or get a second battery. Batteries lose range below freezing.

How much snow Roseville gets

Snow a year
28 in
Storms of 5 in or more
1.2 a winter
Storms of 10 in or more
almost never
Days with snow on the ground
50

Moderate, a typical snowy-city winter. A typical snowy US city gets about 1.3 times as much. It tends to stay, so each storm lands on the last one.

On a two car driveway that is about 3.6 tons of snow to move in a season, and a 10 inch storm weighs 2,600 pounds.

When the snow comes in Roseville

  1. Nov0.4
  2. Dec6.9
  3. Jan9.4
  4. Feb7.4
  5. Mar3.5
  6. Apr0.3

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

Roseville and its neighbours

Roseville is number 83 of 90 Michigan towns here for snowfall; Sault Ste. Marie gets the most at 120 inches.

TownMilesSnowTwo car, paved
Fraser, MI232 inCordless single-stage
St. Clair Shores, MI328 inCordless single-stage
Eastpointe, MI328 inCordless single-stage
Warren, MI528 inCordless single-stage
Harper Woods, MI528 inCordless single-stage
Grosse Pointe Woods, MI528 inCordless 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 Grosse Pointe Farms, 7.3 miles from Roseville. 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.