Fifty-five cities, and no two of them handle snow the same way. Plow triggers run from 1.5 inches to 4. Overnight bans start at 1 a.m., 2 a.m. or 3 a.m., run seasonally or year-round, or do not exist at all — two cities use alternate-side parking instead. Sidewalk deadlines range from 4 hours to 48, and in eight cities the work is not yours at all.
Every page below carries that city's own published rules, with the gaps named rather than filled in from a neighbor.
Plows 400 miles of alleys. Sidewalk is yours in 24 hours, and on a corner that includes the crosswalk ramps out to the gutter.
Has never plowed alleys. Night and day plow routes — and the day routes carry no signs at all.
2″ trigger, 2–6 a.m. ban November through April, and a report line aimed specifically at contractors.
Salting until 2″, then plowing. Midnight to 5 a.m. ban, and a mailbox rule that turns on blade contact.
Two-tier sidewalks: the city clears safety walks, you clear low-use ones. Which is yours depends on classification.
The 2–6 a.m. ban runs all year, not just in winter.
Refuses to declare snow emergencies at all. Blue street signs mark private roads nobody plows.
No overnight ban. Odd and even alternate-side instead, plus a 24-hour sidewalk deadline.
A two-wave snow emergency, a 12-hour sidewalk clock, and up to $1,000 for snow in the street.
Snow Emergency over two inches, until the street is plowed full width — day or night.
The only overnight ban in the metro that starts at 3 a.m. rather than 2.
The city plows its alleys. No overnight ban — tagged cars are towed from 9 a.m. the next morning. Sidewalks in 12 hours.
A 1–7 a.m. ban on streets and alleys, a 12-hour sidewalk clock, and $75 for a plow-struck mailbox.
An automatic emergency at 2 inches, a published $77 ticket, and alleys plowed by the city.
Residential streets within 10 hours of a 2-inch storm. The ban runs to April 15, and snow on city property needs written permission.
A 1–7 a.m. ban, a 3-inch parking trigger, and city-cleared walks that keep an inch or two of snow by design.
2–5 a.m., November through March. Six decades of named subdivisions, each with different driveways.
The city clears residential sidewalks at a 1″ trigger. The parking ban runs year-round.
The ban runs to 7 a.m., as late as any in the metro — and the city may bill you for removing oversized snow piles.
10 to 12 hours to plow every street, starting at 2 a.m. 48-hour sidewalks.
A 1 a.m. start and an April 15 finish — both outliers.
The city clears sidewalks, bans parking year-round, and runs the metro's only dedicated snow hotline.
Escalating sidewalk fines: warning, then $50, $200 and $500 in one season.
Plows at 2 inches, bans parking at 3. Two numbers, one page.
151 cul-de-sacs, a 2–5 a.m. ban, and overnight permits for up to seven days.
No overnight ban — a 48-hour clock that starts when 2 inches have fallen.
A 1 a.m. ban, and three rules the city simply does not publish.
A 24-hour parking limit rather than an overnight ban, and a 3-inch trigger.
Sidewalk snow is a nuisance at 12 hours, and the parking chapter publishes its own fine cap: $300.
A completion goal — 24 hours for light snow, 72 for heavy — city-cleared walks, and free overnight permits.
No seasonal overnight ban in the live code. A 48-hour block rule and a 54-hour declared emergency instead.
Two inches, a 3 a.m. start, 104 lane miles in 7 to 9 hours — and a low-salt policy that leaves cul-de-sacs short of bare pavement.
Plows at 1.5 inches, the lowest trigger around, plus a blanket 1–6 a.m. ban.
Declares a Snow Event on a 2-inch forecast, and clears the street by noon the next day.
Clears its own sidewalks and trails, which takes the biggest variable out of a quote.
Curb-to-curb at 2 inches, and publishes the left-side piling trick that works.
12 hours to clear your sidewalk, half what Minneapolis allows, plus a year-round 2–6 a.m. ban.
A 2 a.m. ban with an 8 p.m. hinge that decides which morning it starts.
A tiered city sidewalk network alongside an ordinance that has historically gone unenforced.
Sidewalk deadlines written in hours of daylight, and over 90 winter parking exemption streets.
Plows the sidewalks too, four hours behind the streets. No snow emergencies, ever.
Full plow of every street and alley at 1.5 inches. The city now clears all sidewalks.
Sidewalks are yours — on no published deadline at all.
A 4-inch snow emergency, raised from two. 93% ramblers and expansion bungalows.
12 hours to clear, 24 before the city does it and bills you.
Automatic emergencies at 2 inches — measure it with a credit card.
A published $42 fine, a November grace period, and blue signs on private roads.
Alternate-side by day, 6 a.m. to 6 p.m., November 15 to April 15 — snow or no snow.
Year-round overnight ban, and the city clears 135 miles of sidewalk itself.
No hours, no depth — no parking any time the plows are running.
A ban triggered by the forecast, and a $100 sidewalk fine that accrues daily.
Overnight ban, 2-inch trigger, and $160 for a plow-struck mailbox.
36 hours on residential sidewalks, 24 on commercial.
No plow depth at all — it is the director's call. $150 mailbox policy.
A 2-to-8-inch storm class, and the metro's only published downtown hauling priority.
Coon Rapids, Chaska and Hugo are all served, but none has a page here. Their city websites block automated access — Hugo’s snow policy and code are readable only as documents its site will not release to a script — and the only figures available for them come from regional roundups that have already proven wrong elsewhere — the same sort of roundup that still lists Brooklyn Park's parking window as October to April, three years after the city changed it, and still gives Lake Elmo a 3-inch trigger the city puts at 2.
A parking rule stated wrongly costs you a ticket and a tow. These pages go up when someone has read the ordinance rather than a summary of it.
Give the address. A surprising share of the questions people have about their own winter are answered by which side of a city line the property sits on.
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