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Do you need a snowblower in Siloam Springs, AR?

Your answer for Siloam Springs

A shovel is enough

A normal winter drops about 1.6 tons of snow on this driveway in Siloam Springs, 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 Siloam Springs is light enough for one.

What a Siloam Springs winter brings

Snow a year
13 in
Storms of 5 in or more
1.0 a winter
Storms of 10 in or more
about once every 3 winters
Days with snow on the ground
6

Light, below most snowy cities. A typical snowy US city gets about 3.3 times as much. Most of it melts within a few days, so in Siloam Springs waiting a day is often a real option.

On a two car driveway that is about 1.6 tons of snow to move in a season, and a 10 inch storm weighs 2,600 pounds.

When the snow comes in Siloam Springs

  1. Oct0.1
  2. Nov0.5
  3. Dec1.7
  4. Jan3.6
  5. Feb2.9
  6. Mar3.6
  7. Apr0.1

Snow worth clearing runs from December to March, heaviest in January. Buy the shovel before the first fall, when stores still have them.

Siloam Springs and its neighbours

Siloam Springs is the snowiest Arkansas town here for snowfall.

TownMilesSnowTwo car, paved
Centerton, AR1710 inA shovel is enough
Farmington, AR197 inA shovel is enough
Bentonville, AR2010 inA shovel is enough
Springdale, AR2110 inA shovel is enough
Lowell, AR2210 inA shovel is enough
Fayetteville, AR227 inA shovel is enough

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 Gravette, 17.2 miles from Siloam Springs. 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.