Chittenden County
Snow plowing in
Essex Junction, Vermont
Snow plowing in Essex Junction covers compact residential streets, shared drives, sidewalks, storefronts, and commuter-oriented commercial properties.
Local operating question
What is different about an Essex Junction stop?
Essex Junction is a separate city with compact blocks, sidewalks, shared parking, rail-area streets, and the Five Corners traffic pattern. Short drives are not always quick stops. Parked cars, curb cuts, narrow snow-storage pockets, pedestrians, and street-plow berms often determine the return work. The Five Corners area and the streets around it carry heavier foot and vehicle traffic than a typical residential block. So curb cuts, crosswalks, and shared parking pockets deserve their own line in the scope. Do not just assume plowing covers them. A property near the rail corridor or a dense block of shared driveways should confirm where the city's own street-plow berm is likely to land, since that pile is not this contractor's responsibility to clear.
How snow affects an Essex Junction lot
The Essex Junction 1 N station records 85.9 inches of snow a year and 23.5 days with an inch or more of new snow. On a tight village lot each of those days means a second push.
VT 2A, VT 15 and VT 117 meet in the village. Snow from those roads ends up on the curb cuts beside them.
Essex Junction sits beside the Winooski River, and the town next door is Essex. The two share a winter and a ban date but not a housing mix.
With 56 ice days a year, a walk cleared at noon can be sheet ice by morning. Five Corners is where the three routes meet, and storefront lots near it stack snow against curbs and sidewalks.
What Essex Junction properties look like
Essex next door is more spread out, with private roads at the rural edge. The snow record is the same, so the difference is how much room each lot has to stack it.
For a village lot, write down where the plowed snow goes before the third push, and who moves it when the lot is full. Tight lots near Five Corners run out of room early. Model the Essex Junction lot in the snow-service planning range calculator.
| Condition | Near Essex Junction | Source |
|---|---|---|
| Snowfall | 85.9 inches a year (Essex Junction 1 N) | NOAA NCEI U.S. Climate Normals 1991-2020 (nearest station) |
| New-snow days | 23.5 a year | Same source |
| Snow-cover days | 101 a year | Same source |
| Ice days | 56 a year | Same source |
| Numbered highways | VT 2A, VT 15 and VT 117 | US Census Bureau TIGER/Line map data |
| Named rivers | Winooski River | USGS National Hydrography Dataset |
| Population | 10,691 residents | Village/City of Essex Junction, 2019 Comprehensive Plan |
| Village population | 5,304 residents | Same source |
Parking bans and plowing rules in Essex Junction
Essex Junction bars overnight parking on any street or right-of-way from December 1 to April 1, between midnight and 7 a.m. Parking on sidewalks is prohibited all year, and owners are asked to remove basketball hoops from the right-of-way (city notice).
Snow plowing near Essex Junction
Planning also covers Essex, Jericho, Underhill, Hinesburg and Richmond, and the service-area directory lists every town.
Straight answers
Questions to settle before the snow flies
What should an Essex Junction plan know about winter parking and plowing?
The overnight ban covers every street and right-of-way from December 1 to April 1, and sidewalks are off limits to parking all year.