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Do you need a snowblower in Sweet Home, OR?

Your answer for Sweet Home

No snowblower

Sweet Home sees measurable snow only in a freak year.

If you are moving to Sweet Home from somewhere snowy, you can sell the snowblower before you move.

Towns near Sweet Home

Almost no snow falls in Sweet Home. In Oregon, Baker City gets the most here at 79 inches.

TownMilesSnowTwo car, paved
Lebanon, OR130 inNo snowblower
Albany, OR253 inNo snowblower
Springfield, OR281 inNo snowblower
Corvallis, OR314 inA shovel is enough
Eugene, OR323 inNo snowblower
Salem, OR391 inNo snowblower

Where these numbers come from

Read next: Why storm depth matters more than snowfall and What a winter of snow weighs.

NOAA 1991 to 2020 climate normals from Foster Dam, 1.6 miles from Sweet Home. 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.