Almost nobody in this market publishes a price. One Cleveland contractor does, and this page runs those figures against Hudson — 350 lane miles, 217 cul-de-sacs cleared last, and a plow license issued by the City Manager.
Hudson publishes more operational detail than any other community in this service area: 350 lane miles and 217 cul-de-sacs, a salt dome holding 3,800 to 4,000 tons plus a 5,000-gallon de-icer tank, and a fleet of 13 main trucks, a one-ton and four back-ups. Monitoring runs 24 hours a day from early October into April.
| Service | Price | Source |
|---|---|---|
| Residential, whole season | $550 – $1,250 | The one Cleveland contractor publishing openly — east-side inner ring, Nov 15 to Apr 1, 2″ trigger |
| Per push, standard driveway | $50+ | Same, “depending on size and technicality” |
| 12×30 single-car driveway, per visit | $40 – $50 | A Cleveland cost page compiled with contractor feedback |
| 24×60 two-car driveway, per visit | $80 – $100 | Same |
| Snow blowing, hourly | $49 – $73/hr | Same |
Of everywhere in this metro, this is where the published band should land closest to a real quote. It was written for this kind of address.
This is the band the published figures were written for, so there is less guesswork here than anywhere else in the metro. Expect $550 to $1,250 for a season and expect it to be roughly right.
Which leaves a real choice rather than an obvious one. 16 occurrences is a west-side operator’s own average-winter figure; at $50 each that is $800, inside the band. A season contract is close to break-even in a normal year — the case for it is variance, not price. Cleveland Hopkins finished 2022–23 at 22.7 inches, forty below normal. Then came late November 2024: two to five feet on the belt in five days.
Codified Ordinance § 660.05: snow and ice off the abutting walk, curb and gutter within a reasonable time ordinarily not exceeding 12 hours after any storm. Minor misdemeanor. The duty does not apply where a walk abuts the rear of a parcel inside a right of way or easement.
§ 452.11, declared: snow accumulating to a depth of two inches or more within 24 hours lets the City Manager or the Chief of Police declare the emergency, and it runs until they announce it is over. The section expressly puts the burden on drivers to assess conditions themselves, and vehicles parked in violation may be towed.
§§ 860.04 and 860.05. Snow from a private road or driveway may not go on a public street, highway or sidewalk; may not under any circumstances block mail delivery to a roadside box or the use of a hydrant; and may not go on private property without the owner’s permission. § 860.05 applies those duties to the owner doing his own clearing as well as to a paid operator. The city states plainly that contractors “will be warned and possibly fined if found placing snow into the street.”
Chapter 860, “Snow Removal” — and the license comes from the City Manager, which is unique in this metro. No commercial snow removal machinery may be operated in the city without one. Fee $15.00 a year including one vehicle decal, license period October 1 through September 30, decal displayed on the lower right of the windshield. Insurance minimums are stated in the ordinance: $25,000 per person, $50,000 for more than one person, $25,000 property damage. A violation is a fourth-degree misdemeanor carrying up to $250 and thirty days, with each day a separate offense.
Every city found that licenses snow contractors →
The free tip Hudson publishes and almost nobody follows: shovel the apron snow to the down-stream side of the driveway — typically the right side as you face the street — so the next plow pass carries it away instead of back across the apron.
A pre-war historic center on deep lots, surrounded by later large-lot residential with long private drives.
With both types in the same city, the driveway decides the price and the address does not. An apron is one pass; a full-depth drive to a rear garage is several, with less room for the snow at every one.
This is the transitional band. It gets roughly the metro average, and the metro average is the 63.8 inches a year Cleveland Hopkins records. Where the belt starts → · Everything else about Hudson →
The address, the driveway, the frontage and how much of the season you want covered. That is what turns the published band into a price.
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