Do you need a snowblower in Sandpoint, ID?
Your answer for Sandpoint
Gas single-stage
Sandpoint gets enough snow that shovelling it all is a real job, about 8.1 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.
A normal Sandpoint winter
- Snow a year
- 62 in
- Storms of 5 in or more
- 2.9 a winter
- Storms of 10 in or more
- about once every 5 winters
- Days with snow on the ground
- 72
Heavy, more than most snowy cities. That is about 1.7 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 8.1 tons of snow to move in a season, and a 10 inch storm weighs 2,600 pounds.
When the snow comes in Sandpoint
- Nov6.4
- Dec19.3
- Jan20.9
- Feb8.4
- Mar6.5
- Apr0.5
Snow worth clearing runs from November to March, heaviest in January. Start and service a machine in October.
Sandpoint and its neighbours
Sandpoint is number 5 of 26 Idaho towns here for snowfall; Rexburg gets the most at 70 inches.
| Town | Miles | Snow | Two car, paved |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rathdrum, ID | 37 | 27 in | Gas single-stage |
| Hayden, ID | 37 | 27 in | Gas single-stage |
| Coeur d'Alene, ID | 41 | 27 in | Gas single-stage |
| Post Falls, ID | 42 | 27 in | Gas single-stage |
| Liberty Lake, WA | 49 | 45 in | Cordless single-stage |
| Spokane Valley, WA | 53 | 45 in | Cordless 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 Sandpoint Exp Station, 0.9 miles from Sandpoint. 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.