Do you need a snowblower in Wooster, OH?
The machine for a Wooster driveway
Cordless single-stage
Plenty falls in Wooster, about 3.7 tons a winter on this driveway, but it comes in shallow storms a small cordless machine can take in.
Before you buy, check the battery is rated to clear the whole driveway in one charge in the cold, or get a second battery. Batteries lose range below freezing.
What a Wooster winter brings
- Snow a year
- 29 in
- Storms of 5 in or more
- 0.5 a winter
- Storms of 10 in or more
- almost never
- Days with snow on the ground
- 47
Moderate, a typical snowy-city winter. A typical snowy US city gets about 1.3 times as much. It tends to stay, so each storm lands on the last one.
On a two car driveway that is about 3.7 tons of snow to move in a season, and a 10 inch storm weighs 2,600 pounds.
When the snow comes in Wooster
- Nov1.2
- Dec5.4
- Jan9.4
- Feb7.0
- Mar4.9
- Apr0.7
Snow worth clearing runs from November to March, heaviest in January. Start and service a machine in October.
Wooster and its neighbours
Wooster is number 86 of 176 Ohio towns here for snowfall; Euclid gets the most at 114 inches.
| Town | Miles | Snow | Two car, paved |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wadsworth, OH | 18 | 29 in | Cordless single-stage |
| Ashland, OH | 20 | 49 in | Gas single-stage |
| New Franklin, OH | 20 | 47 in | Cordless single-stage |
| Norton, OH | 21 | 29 in | Cordless single-stage |
| Massillon, OH | 21 | 47 in | Cordless single-stage |
| Barberton, OH | 21 | 29 in | Cordless 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 Wooster Exp Station, 2.6 miles from Wooster. 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.