Boone County, West Virginia
Gutter cleaning, repair and new gutters in Madison, WV
Madison gets about 50 inches of rain in a normal year, and on about 11 days a year an inch or more falls in a single day. The wettest season is spring (March to May), with about 14.2 inches; the driest is fall (September to November), with 9.8. Off a 1,000-square-foot roof, that comes to about 30,700 gallons a year for the gutters to carry.
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NOAA station USC00465563, 4 miBars to one scale; the longest is spring (March to May).
By heavy-rain days, Madison falls 31st for heavy-rain days of the 147 places in West Virginia on this site (10.6 a year). Its housing ranks near the middle of the 147 places in West Virginia on this site (half built by 1961). The first frost here ranks near the middle of the 147 places in West Virginia on this site (October 27).
When to clean gutters in Madison
The first fall frost comes around October 27 in a typical year here, and the last spring frost around April 16 (median dates, NOAA normals). A fall cleaning set for the weeks after that frost, when the branches over the house are bare, gets the year’s leaves in one trip; a spring visit follows once the pollen and catkins have come down.
When to clean gutters explains how the trees over a roof change the schedule.
Gutter and downspout size for Madison rain
Gutters are sized for the worst few minutes of a storm, not for the year. In Madison the five-minute rain expected about once in ten years falls at 6.83 inches an hour (NOAA Atlas 14 Volume 2). At that rate one 2-by-3-inch downspout drains about 1,050 square feet of roof and one 3-by-4-inch downspout about 2,110, 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 Madison
Half the homes in Madison were built by 1961, 74% before 1980 (ACS 2020–2024). At that age a gutter has seen decades of leaves and storms, and the fascia it hangs from has too. 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.
70% of households own their home, and 76% of homes are detached houses. Where an HOA governs the exterior, its rules on gutter color and style apply before any order is placed.
Hiring in West Virginia
Before hiring in Madison, ask which West Virginia license or registration the contractor holds and for a certificate of liability insurance. Hiring a gutter contractor
Gutter work in Madison
With half the homes built by 1961, replacement gutters and the fascia behind them come up more often here than in newer suburbs. The line takes all of it: