Do you need a snowblower in Smithville, MO?
What clears snow in Smithville
A shovel is enough
A normal winter drops about 2.4 tons of snow on this driveway in Smithville, 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 Smithville is light enough for one.
How much snow Smithville gets
- Snow a year
- 18 in
- Storms of 5 in or more
- 0.7 a winter
- Storms of 10 in or more
- almost never
- Days with snow on the ground
- 21
Light, below most snowy cities. A typical snowy US city gets about 2.0 times as much. It tends to stay, so each storm lands on the last one.
On a two car driveway that is about 2.4 tons of snow to move in a season, and a 10 inch storm weighs 2,600 pounds.
When the snow comes in Smithville
- Oct0.3
- Nov1.1
- Dec4.0
- Jan4.9
- Feb5.9
- Mar1.7
- Apr0.3
Snow worth clearing runs from November to March, heaviest in February. Buy the shovel before the first fall, when stores still have them.
Towns near Smithville
Smithville is number 8 of 80 Missouri towns here for snowfall; St. Joseph gets the most at 21 inches.
| Town | Miles | Snow | Two car, paved |
|---|---|---|---|
| Kearney, MO | 12 | 19 in | A shovel is enough |
| Gladstone, MO | 13 | 11 in | A shovel is enough |
| Liberty, MO | 13 | 19 in | A shovel is enough |
| Excelsior Springs, MO | 18 | 19 in | A shovel is enough |
| Kansas City, MO | 19 | 11 in | A shovel is enough |
| Leavenworth, KS | 20 | 19 in | A 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 Kansas City International Airport, 11.0 miles from Smithville. 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.