Barber County, Kansas
Gutter cleaning, repair and new gutters in Medicine Lodge, KS
Rain in Medicine Lodge adds up to about 28 inches in a normal year, with about 7 days that bring an inch or more. The wettest season is summer (June to August), with about 10.6 inches; the driest is winter (December to February), with 2.9. Every 1,000 square feet of roof sheds about 17,200 gallons a year, and all of it goes through the gutters.
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NOAA station USW00003957, 2 miBars to one scale; the longest is summer (June to August).
For days with an inch of rain or more, Medicine Lodge ranks among the fewest heavy-rain days of the 162 places in Kansas on this site (7.0 a year). Its housing ranks 23rd oldest by median year built of the 162 places in Kansas on this site (half built by 1953). The first frost here ranks near the middle of the 162 places in Kansas on this site (October 23).
When to clean gutters in Medicine Lodge
The first fall frost comes around October 23 in a typical year here, and the last spring frost around April 13 (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 Medicine Lodge rain
What overwhelms a gutter is a burst, not a season. In Medicine Lodge the five-minute rain expected about once in ten years falls at 7.74 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 1,860, 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 Medicine Lodge
Half the homes in Medicine Lodge were built by 1953, 90% 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.
72% of households own their home, and 89% 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 Kansas
Ask any contractor working in Medicine Lodge what Kansas requires of them for gutter work, and to show proof of insurance. Hiring a gutter contractor
Gutter work in Medicine Lodge
With half the homes built by 1953, replacement gutters and the fascia behind them come up more often here than in newer suburbs. The line takes all of it: