Old Brooklyn is the one place inside the city limits that reports to the National Weather Service community tables, which makes it the only Cleveland neighborhood with a published snowfall figure of its own.
It measured 36.9 inches in 2019–20 and 34.6 inches in 2018–19. Both are useful reference points, and both are worth setting beside what the east side measured the same winters: Shaker Heights 44.7 and 44.0, Lyndhurst 64.4 and 53.2. Same metro, same seasons.
That spread inside one county is why this site does not quote a single metro price. A Lyndhurst driveway is cleared roughly twice as often as an Old Brooklyn one on identical contract terms, and no amount of negotiating changes the weather. How the belt works →
Housing here is largely pre-1960, which means the long rear driveway is common, alongside later infill with shorter aprons. Which one you have is the first thing worth saying on a quote call.
Every address on this page is inside the City of Cleveland, so one rule governs all of them: Codified Ordinance § 507.13 requires the sidewalk cleared before 9:00 a.m. each day — not within 24 hours, whatever several local outlets report. If clearing it is impossible, it has to be covered with ashes, sand or similar so it can be walked on. The city may clear it and bill the owner, and an unpaid charge is certified to the County Auditor, where it acts as a lien on the property.
The city’s own operation is the other half of the picture, and it is published: plowing starts at 2 inches, mains and secondaries first; the city runs roughly 3,000 lane miles and says it takes three to four days to plow the whole city; it uses over 22,000 tons of salt and 23,000 gallons of liquid de-icer in a season and pre-treats six to eight hours ahead. Snow emergencies run in three categories — Category 1 “use caution,” Category 2 “hazardous roads, necessary travel only,” Category 3 “emergency vehicles only.” There is a plow tracker on a 15-minute delay and 3-1-1 for reports.
One honest caveat about numbers. Cleveland proper has exactly one reporting point in the NWS community tables, and it is Old Brooklyn. No other neighborhood in the city has a published snowfall figure, so none is quoted on these pages. Old Brooklyn measured 36.9 inches in 2019–20 and 34.6 in 2018–19; Cleveland Hopkins carries the 30-year normal of 63.8 inches a year.
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Driveway length, whether the garage is attached or at the back of the lot, sidewalk frontage, and where the snow can go. That is the quote.
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