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Do you need a snowblower in Salt Lake City, UT?

The machine for a Salt Lake City driveway

Gas single-stage

Salt Lake City gets enough snow that shovelling it all is a real job, about 6.4 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.

How much snow Salt Lake City gets

Snow a year
49 in
Storms of 5 in or more
2.7 a winter
Storms of 10 in or more
about once every 5 winters
Days with snow on the ground
45

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 6.4 tons of snow to move in a season, and a 10 inch storm weighs 2,600 pounds.

When the snow comes in Salt Lake City

  1. Oct0.4
  2. Nov7.3
  3. Dec11.0
  4. Jan10.7
  5. Feb9.8
  6. Mar6.4
  7. Apr3.2
  8. May0.2

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

Towns near Salt Lake City

Salt Lake City is number 36 of 67 Utah towns here for snowfall; Bountiful gets the most at 119 inches.

TownMilesSnowTwo car, paved
North Salt Lake, UT552 inGas single-stage
South Salt Lake, UT549 inGas single-stage
Woods Cross, UT752 inGas single-stage
West Valley City, UT752 inGas single-stage
Bountiful, UT8119 inTwo-stage snowblower
Millcreek, UT856 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 Salt Lake Triad Center, 1.9 miles from Salt Lake City. 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.