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Do you need a snowblower in Winfield, IL?

What clears snow in Winfield

Gas single-stage

Winfield gets enough snow that shovelling it all is a real job, about 3.2 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.

What a Winfield winter brings

Snow a year
24 in
Storms of 5 in or more
1.5 a winter
Storms of 10 in or more
about once every 5 winters
Days with snow on the ground
41

Light, below most snowy cities. A typical snowy US city gets about 1.4 times as much. It tends to stay, so each storm lands on the last one.

On a two car driveway that is about 3.2 tons of snow to move in a season, and a 10 inch storm weighs 2,600 pounds.

When the snow comes in Winfield

  1. Nov0.9
  2. Dec4.2
  3. Jan9.3
  4. Feb5.1
  5. Mar4.5
  6. Apr0.3

Snow worth clearing runs from December to March, heaviest in January. Start and service a machine in November.

Towns near Winfield

Winfield is number 172 of 225 Illinois towns here for snowfall; St. Charles gets the most at 46 inches.

TownMilesSnowTwo car, paved
Wheaton, IL324 inGas single-stage
Carol Stream, IL334 inCordless single-stage
West Chicago, IL446 inGas single-stage
Warrenville, IL424 inGas single-stage
Glen Ellyn, IL524 inGas single-stage
Glendale Heights, IL524 inGas 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 Wheaton 3 SE, 6.1 miles from Winfield. 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.