Do you need a snowblower in Yankton, SD?
The machine for a Yankton driveway
Gas single-stage
Yankton gets enough snow that shovelling it all is a real job, about 5.0 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.
A normal Yankton winter
- Snow a year
- 38 in
- Storms of 5 in or more
- 2.5 a winter
- Storms of 10 in or more
- about once every 3 winters
- Days with snow on the ground
- 58
Moderate, a typical snowy-city winter. About 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 5.0 tons of snow to move in a season, and a 10 inch storm weighs 2,600 pounds.
When the snow comes in Yankton
- Oct0.8
- Nov5.9
- Dec7.6
- Jan6.7
- Feb8.5
- Mar4.7
- Apr3.7
- May0.2
Snow worth clearing runs from November to April, heaviest in February. Start and service a machine in October.
Yankton and its neighbours
Yankton is number 11 of 14 South Dakota towns here for snowfall; Spearfish gets the most at 71 inches.
| Town | Miles | Snow | Two car, paved |
|---|---|---|---|
| Vermillion, SD | 25 | 36 in | Gas single-stage |
| Harrisburg, SD | 51 | 49 in | Gas single-stage |
| Sioux Falls, SD | 56 | 45 in | Gas single-stage |
| Sioux City, IA | 58 | 36 in | Gas single-stage |
| South Sioux City, NE | 58 | 36 in | Gas single-stage |
| Norfolk, NE | 60 | 26 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 Yankton 2 E, 1.7 miles from Yankton. 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.