Lee County, Iowa
Gutter cleaning, repair and new gutters in Keokuk, IA
Keokuk gets about 40 inches of rain in a normal year, and on about 10 days a year an inch or more falls in a single day. The wettest season is summer (June to August), with about 13.1 inches; the driest is winter (December to February), with 5.4. That is about 24,600 gallons a year off each 1,000 square feet of roof, every drop of it through a gutter and a downspout.
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NOAA station USC00134381, 2 miBars to one scale; the longest is summer (June to August).
For days with an inch of rain or more, Keokuk ranks 9th for heavy-rain days of the 290 places in Iowa on this site (10.4 a year). By the age of its homes it sits 26th oldest by median year built of the 290 places in Iowa on this site (half built by 1950). By its first fall frost it sits among the latest for the first fall frost of the 290 places in Iowa on this site (October 27).
When to clean gutters in Keokuk
The first fall frost comes around October 27 in a typical year here, and the last spring frost around April 10 (median dates, NOAA normals). Plan the fall visit for after the frost, when the trees over the roof have finished dropping, and the spring visit for after the pollen and catkins.
When to clean gutters explains how the trees over a roof change the schedule.
Gutter and downspout size for Keokuk rain
What overwhelms a gutter is a burst, not a season. In Keokuk the five-minute rain expected about once in ten years falls at 7.72 inches an hour (NOAA Atlas 14 Volume 8). At that rate one 2-by-3-inch downspout drains about 930 square feet of roof and one 3-by-4-inch downspout about 1,870, by the rule in the Copper Development Association’s design handbook. Try your own roof in the gutter and downspout calculator, which starts from this figure.
The houses in Keokuk
Half the homes in Keokuk were built by 1950, 83% before 1980 (ACS 2020–2024). In a neighborhood that age, many houses are on their second set of gutters or due for one, and the fascia board behind them is worth checking at the same visit. On a house built before 1978, replacing more than 20 square feet of painted fascia or trim falls under the EPA’s lead-safe rule, so ask whether the crew is certified.
60% of households own their home, and 72% of homes are detached houses, 2% townhouses. In a townhouse or HOA community, check who owns the gutters and what colors are allowed before booking.
Hiring in Iowa
Ask any contractor working in Keokuk what Iowa requires of them for gutter work, and to show proof of insurance. Hiring a gutter contractor
Gutter work in Keokuk
With half the homes built by 1950, replacement gutters and the fascia behind them come up more often here than in newer suburbs. The line takes all of it: