Snow removal across Ohio

The lake decides most of it. The snow belt east of Cleveland, through Lake and Geauga counties, routinely takes 100 inches or more in a lake-effect-heavy winter, with Chardon regularly among Ohio’s snowiest places. Cleveland proper averages roughly 60 inches, the west side often half that, and Akron generally lands somewhat below Cleveland.

Head south and west and the numbers fall away quickly: Toledo and the lake ports sit near the high 30s, Columbus near 30, Cincinnati in the low-to-mid 20s. But every one of those regions shares the freeze-thaw ice season in full, which is why ice control runs on its own dispatch statewide.