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Yes, if you buy early in it. Leaf blowers get expensive in the second half of October, when everyone buys one on the same weekend the leaves come down, and the early Columbus Day window sits just ahead of that rush, while retailers are still clearing summer yard stock to make room for fall. Buy in the first half of the window and you’re shopping ahead of the crowd instead of inside it. The other good window is late November into December, once the season is over, but by then the models worth having are usually gone.
The specs on a leaf blower box are close to useless on their own, which is how people end up with a machine that pushes dry leaves around beautifully and can’t shift a single wet one. Below you’ll find live deals by type, the two numbers that actually decide whether a blower does the job, and a note on the gas rules that now apply in a growing number of places.
Early Columbus Day Leaf Blower Deals
One brand is running real cuts on cordless blowers on its own site in this window, and the discounts sit on the kits with the battery included. These are the live markdowns, checked against the product page.
Greenworks 40V 390 CFM Leaf Blower and 12 in. String Trimmer Combo Kit
- 390 CFM blower
- 40V 2.0Ah battery included
- Up to 30 min runtime
A 390 CFM blower and a 12 inch string trimmer in one box with the 40V 2.0Ah battery and charger, which the listing rates at up to 30 minutes and sizes for yards up to a third of an acre. The battery is most of the cost of going cordless, and here it powers two tools.
This is the buy if you own neither tool, since $119.99 is about what a bare blower costs on its own. The 390 CFM figure is the light end for a blower, fine for a patio and a small lawn, so read the CFM section below before you pick it for a big leaf drop.
$119.99$199.9940% off
Greenworks 24V 515 CFM Brushless Blower with 5.0Ah Battery
- 515 CFM / 130 MPH
- 4.4 lb
- 5.0Ah battery, USB-C charger
The small-yard blower with a brushless motor, rated in the listing at 515 CFM and 130 MPH at a tool weight of 4.4 lb, with a 5.0Ah battery and a 65W USB-C charger in the box. Recharge is 125 minutes.
At 4.4 lb this is the one to hand to whoever in the house finds the big blowers tiring, and 515 CFM is enough to clear a driveway and a deck. The 24V battery is shared across the brand’s 200 plus 24V tools, so it makes a cheap second blower for an existing owner.
$139.99$199.9930% off
Greenworks 80V 770 CFM Cordless Blower with 4.0Ah Battery
- 770 CFM / 180 MPH
- Up to 80 min runtime
- 10.56 lb
The big one: 770 CFM and 180 MPH, which the listing puts at the equivalent of a 28cc gas blower, with a 4.0Ah 80V battery rated at up to 80 minutes and a 60 minute recharge. It weighs 10.56 lb and carries a four year tool and battery warranty.
If the job is a yard full of wet oak leaves, this is the only one of the three that does it without a second pass, and the CFM and MPH pairing is what moves a pile rather than just scattering it. It costs more than the other two combined, and that is the price of matching a gas blower.
$249.99$349.9929% off
Prices come from Greenworks at the time this page was last refreshed. The brand runs some of its cuts as 48 hour flash sales; the three above aren’t flagged that way, but check the current number on the product page before you buy.
Leaf Blower Deals On Sale
Every one of these is discounted, cheapest first.
CFM and MPH Decide Whether It Works
Every listing leads with one number and hides the other. You need both, because they do different jobs.
| The Job | What You Need | Why |
|---|---|---|
| Small patio, deck, garage floor | About 200 to 350 CFM | Dry debris on a hard surface moves easily. A small handheld is quieter, lighter and completely sufficient. |
| A typical suburban yard, dry leaves | 400 to 550 CFM with 100 mph or better | This is the range most cordless blowers live in, and it clears an average lot without becoming a chore. |
| Wet leaves, matted grass, pine needles | 550 CFM and up, 130 mph or better | Wet debris sticks. CFM alone just fans it. You need the air speed to break it loose before volume can move it. |
| Half an acre or more, every fall | 600 CFM and up, backpack or wheeled | At this size the limit is your arms, not the machine. A backpack shifts the weight to your hips and changes the job. |
| Gutters and tight corners | Any CFM, plus a nozzle kit | Airflow barely matters here. The attachment does, so check what comes in the box before you pay for the extra. |
The short version: CFM is how much air the blower moves, MPH is how fast it leaves the tube. Volume sweeps a wide path, speed unsticks what’s stuck. A blower that’s strong on one and weak on the other will disappoint you at exactly the moment you needed it.
What Actually Counts as a Good Leaf Blower Deal
Price is the easy part. These are the things that decide whether you’re still happy with it in three autumns:
- Whether the battery is included. This is where cordless listings get slippery. A bare tool at a great price is only a great price if you already own the battery, and a 4Ah pack on its own can cost most of what the blower does.
- The platform, not the tool. If you already own a Ryobi, EGO, Greenworks or DeWalt battery, buying into that same system is worth more than any discount on a different brand. Batteries don’t cross over.
- Run time at full throttle, not the headline number. Manufacturers quote run time at the lowest setting. Real clearing happens on turbo, where a 2Ah pack can be finished in ten minutes.
- Brushless motors on anything you’ll use hard. They run cooler, last longer and squeeze noticeably more work out of the same battery. On a cheap seasonal tool it matters less.
- Weight, honestly assessed. Anything past about 10 pounds held out at arm’s length stops being fun after fifteen minutes, which is why backpack models exist at all.
Where to Shop Leaf Blowers
Going direct to the brand is unusually worthwhile in this category, because that’s where the battery and blower bundles live and where last season’s models get cleared. These four are all stocked and discounting.
How to Pick the Right Leaf Blower
You already own cordless tools. Buy the bare tool on your existing battery platform and ignore every other deal on this page. Nothing else comes close on value.
Your yard is small and mostly hard surfaces. A light handheld in the 200 to 350 CFM range does the job, costs very little, and won’t wake the street at eight in the morning.
You deal with wet leaves every year. Prioritize air speed over volume and don’t go below about 130 mph, because a low speed blower simply won’t lift matted wet leaves no matter how long you stand there.
You bag everything. A blower vacuum with a mulching impeller cuts what you collect down to roughly a tenth of its volume, which is the difference between two bags and twenty.
Your yard is half an acre or more. Go backpack. The weight moves off your arm and onto your hips, and it turns a two hour job you dread into one you’ll actually finish in one pass.
Leaf Blower Sale FAQ
The Bottom Line
Buying a leaf blower in August feels premature and that’s exactly why it works, because the price you pay in October is set by everyone panicking at once. Match the machine to the debris rather than the yard: dry leaves need volume, wet leaves need speed, and half an acre needs the weight off your arms. If you already own a cordless battery, buy the bare tool on that platform and stop reading. If you don’t, a mid-range cordless kit with the battery included is the one most people should own, and Columbus Day weekend is when those kits are actually discounted.
