Lake County, South Dakota
Gutter cleaning, repair and new gutters in Madison, SD
A normal year in Madison brings about 26 inches of rain; on roughly 6 of its days, an inch or more comes down at once. The wettest season is summer (June to August), with about 10.9 inches; the driest is winter (December to February), with 1.7. That is about 16,300 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 USC00395090, 1 miBars to one scale; the longest is summer (June to August).
Counting days with an inch of rain or more, Madison sits near the middle of the 54 places in South Dakota on this site (5.9 a year). By house age it falls near the middle of the 54 places in South Dakota on this site (half built by 1969). By its first fall frost it sits 8th earliest for the first fall frost of the 54 places in South Dakota on this site (September 30).
When to clean gutters in Madison
The first fall frost comes around September 30 in a typical year here, and the last spring frost around May 5 (median dates, NOAA normals). Booking the fall cleaning after the first frost, once the trees over the roof are bare, catches the season’s drop in one visit; the spring cleaning comes after the pollen and catkins are down.
When to clean gutters explains how the trees over a roof change the schedule.
Gutter and downspout size for Madison rain
What overwhelms a gutter is a burst, not a season. In Madison the five-minute rain expected about once in ten years falls at 7.57 inches an hour (NOAA Atlas 14 Volume 8). At that rate one 2-by-3-inch downspout drains about 950 square feet of roof and one 3-by-4-inch downspout about 1,900, 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.
With about 37 inches of snow in a normal year here (NOAA normals), gutters carry ice as well as water. Ice dams start with heat from the house melting roof snow that refreezes at the edge (University of Minnesota Extension); the fix for the dam is in the attic, and the gutter’s part is to be hung strongly enough to take the weight.
The houses in Madison
Half the homes in Madison were built by 1969, 64% 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.
56% of households own their home, and 62% 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 South Dakota
Ask any contractor working in Madison what South Dakota requires of them for gutter work, and to show proof of insurance. Hiring a gutter contractor
Gutter work in Madison
With half the homes built by 1969, replacement gutters and the fascia behind them come up more often here than in newer suburbs. The line takes all of it: