Chardon has the only 30-year normal in this metro that most of the country would not believe: 113.7 inches a year. It sits on a 730-foot ridge about ten miles inland from Lake Erie, and that climb is the entire reason.
Chardon is inside the primary lake-effect snow belt — the band NWS Cleveland puts at 70 to over 100 inches in a normal season. Geauga County.
| Season or event | Measured |
|---|---|
| 2019–20 | 73.7″ by a trained spotter, 74.8″ at the COOP station |
| 2018–19 | 68.7″ |
These are measured seasons and events, not 30-year normals. Outside Cleveland Hopkins, Chardon and Elyria, almost nowhere in this metro has a long-record station, so a published normal for most suburbs does not exist. This site quotes what was actually measured and says which season it came from, rather than inventing an average.
Where the snow belt starts, and why it matters to a quote →No Chardon-specific snow ordinance surfaced in the research for this site, and none is asserted here. What does apply is the general shape of the rules across Northeast Ohio: the sidewalk in front of your property is almost always your responsibility, most cities in this metro ban street parking once two inches have fallen, and pushing snow into the roadway is handled by municipal ordinance rather than by state law — there is no Ohio statute that names snow.
Before signing anything, check your own city’s published snow page. The cities where the rules are written down and citable are collected here.
Rural and small-town stock on large, often long and steep lots, with a good deal of tree cover along the drive.
Which of those you have changes the number materially. A short apron in front of an attached garage is one push; a long narrow driveway running back to a detached garage at the rear of the lot is several, with less room at the end to put what comes off the blade. Say which one you have when you call, because in a city with both, the city name alone does not tell an operator what they are pricing.
The storm people here still measure others against is November 9–13, 1996, when a lake-effect band parked over Geauga County and dropped over 70 inches on Chardon in five days. The governor declared a state of emergency and the Ohio National Guard came in to help dig out. That is a single week accounting for more snow than Toledo normally gets in a year.
The address, the length of the driveway, whether the garage is attached or at the back of the lot, and what else has to be cleared. Four facts and the quote stops being a range.
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