Eden Prairie chimney service: Blue Sky Chimney Sweeps for area code 952

About homes and winters in area code 952

Area code 952 covers the southern and southwestern Twin Cities suburbs, from Bloomington, Eden Prairie and Minnetonka to Burnsville, Lakeville, Shakopee, Prior Lake and Chaska. Census figures count about 342,000 homes and apartments here. About 43% were built before 1980 (5.1% before 1940), and the median home dates from the 1980s. About 60% are single-family detached houses.

Eden Prairie is a city in Hennepin County, Minnesota, about 12 miles southwest of downtown Minneapolis, on the north bank of the Minnesota River.

Winter here is serious. NOAA's 1991–2020 normals for Minneapolis/St Paul Airport, MN show about 7,399 heating degree days a year, a January average of 16.2°F, and about 51.2 inches of snow. Water that soaks into brick freezes, expands and thaws again many times each winter; over the years that cracks crowns and loosens mortar joints, so a cap and a sound crown are worth the money.

The most common way to heat a home here is utility gas (about 79% of occupied homes, per the Census), followed by electricity at about 16%. Wood is the main heat in fewer than 2 in 100 homes, so most fireplaces here are for cool evenings, and gas fireplaces and inserts are common. Energy codes place it in IECC climate zone 6A. NFPA 211, the national chimney and venting standard, recommends an inspection every year no matter what you burn.

Sources: Census ACS 2018–2022 (B25034, B25040, B25024); NOAA Climate Normals 1991–2020, Minneapolis/St Paul Airport, MN (USW00014922); IECC 2021 climate zones by county (PNNL-33270); NFPA 211; Wikipedia: Eden Prairie, Minnesota.