Do you need a snowblower in Wichita Falls, TX?
The machine for a Wichita Falls driveway
A shovel is enough
A normal winter drops about 0.4 tons of snow on this driveway in Wichita Falls, 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 Wichita Falls is light enough for one.
What a Wichita Falls winter brings
- Snow a year
- 3 in
- Storms of 5 in or more
- 0.1 a winter
- Storms of 10 in or more
- almost never
- Days with snow on the ground
- 2
Light, below most snowy cities. A typical snowy US city gets about 10.0 times as much. Most of it melts within a few days, so in Wichita Falls waiting a day is often a real option.
On a two car driveway that is about 0.4 tons of snow to move in a season, and a 10 inch storm weighs 2,600 pounds.
When the snow comes in Wichita Falls
- Nov0.3
- Dec0.8
- Jan0.7
- Feb1.1
- Mar0.2
Inches of new snow per month, averaged over 1991 to 2020.
Wichita Falls and its neighbours
Wichita Falls is number 11 of 252 Texas towns here for snowfall; Amarillo gets the most at 17 inches.
| Town | Miles | Snow | Two car, paved |
|---|---|---|---|
| Burkburnett, TX | 12 | 3 in | A shovel is enough |
| Lawton, OK | 49 | 2 in | No snowblower |
| Duncan, OK | 51 | 3 in | No snowblower |
| Altus, OK | 68 | 4 in | A shovel is enough |
| Mineral Wells, TX | 79 | 1 in | No snowblower |
| Gainesville, TX | 81 | 3 in | No snowblower |
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 Wichita Falls Municipal Airport, 5.3 miles from Wichita Falls. 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.