Do you need a snowblower in Sun Prairie, WI?
Your answer for Sun Prairie
Gas single-stage
Sun Prairie gets enough snow that shovelling it all is a real job, about 6.7 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 Sun Prairie gets
- Snow a year
- 52 in
- Storms of 5 in or more
- 2.1 a winter
- Storms of 10 in or more
- about once every 3 winters
- Days with snow on the ground
- 78
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 6.7 tons of snow to move in a season, and a 10 inch storm weighs 2,600 pounds.
When the snow comes in Sun Prairie
- Oct0.6
- Nov3.0
- Dec12.0
- Jan13.7
- Feb12.8
- Mar7.0
- Apr2.6
- May0.1
Snow worth clearing runs from November to April, heaviest in January. Start and service a machine in October.
Sun Prairie and its neighbours
Sun Prairie is number 26 of 98 Wisconsin towns here for snowfall; Weston gets the most at 64 inches.
| Town | Miles | Snow | Two car, paved |
|---|---|---|---|
| Windsor, WI | 5 | 43 in | Gas single-stage |
| DeForest, WI | 6 | 43 in | Gas single-stage |
| Waunakee, WI | 10 | 52 in | Gas single-stage |
| Madison, WI | 12 | 39 in | Gas single-stage |
| Middleton, WI | 15 | 39 in | Gas single-stage |
| Fitchburg, WI | 17 | 39 in | Gas 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 Madison Dane Regional Airport, 6.1 miles from Sun Prairie. 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.