Estimate calories burned raking leaves by entering your body weight, minutes spent, and leaf task to see calories per minute and hour.
Calories Burned Raking Leaves Formula
The calculator uses body weight, active working time, and leaf-task intensity to estimate total energy used, including resting energy. Actual calorie burn varies with pace and individual characteristics.
The standard activity estimates used here are:
- Raking leaves, moderate effort: 4.0 MET
- Raking and bagging leaves: 4.0 MET
- Using a leaf blower, moderate effort: 3.3 MET
- Heavy yard cleanup, vigorous effort: 6.0 MET
If you enter pounds, the calculator converts your weight to kilograms before applying the formula. The activity values come from the 2024 Adult Compendium of Physical Activities for ages 19–59.
Calories Burned Raking Leaves by Body Weight
For 30 active minutes of moderate leaf raking at 4.0 MET, the estimated calorie burn is roughly:
- 130 lb: 124 Calories
- 155 lb: 148 Calories
- 180 lb: 171 Calories
- 200 lb: 191 Calories
How to Calculate Calories Burned Raking Leaves
- Enter your body weight.
- Enter the active minutes spent on the selected task, excluding breaks.
- Select raking, raking and bagging, leaf blower work, or vigorous heavy yard cleanup.
- Press Calculate to see total Calories, Calories per minute, and Calories per hour.
Example
A 180 lb person who spends 45 active minutes moderately raking leaves uses an estimated 257.19 Calories.
That works out to about 5.72 Calories per minute or 342.92 Calories per hour during moderate raking.
