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Gutter cleaning, repair and new gutters in Moweaqua, IL

A normal year in Moweaqua brings about 41 inches of rain; on roughly 10 of its days, an inch or more comes down at once. The wettest season is spring (March to May), with about 12.4 inches; the driest is winter (December to February), with 6.9. That is about 25,200 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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Moweaqua: rain and roofs

NOAA station USC00115950, 3 mi
40.7 in
Rain in a normal year, Moweaqua
NOAA normal, MOWEAQUA 2S
10.0
Days with an inch or more
a year
25,200 gal
Water off 1,000 sq ft of roof in Moweaqua
0.62 gal per sq ft per inch
7.62 in/hr
5-minute downpour, once in 10 years
NOAA Atlas 14 Volume 2
Oct 24
First fall frost
median date
1959
Median year homes were built
ACS 2020–2024
77%
Homes built before 1980
ACS 2020–2024
Winter6.9 in
Spring12.4 in
Summer11.3 in
Fall10.0 in

Bars to one scale; the longest is spring (March to May).

Counting days with an inch of rain or more, Moweaqua sits near the middle of the 695 places in Illinois on this site (10.0 a year). By the age of its homes it sits 170th oldest by median year built of the 695 places in Illinois on this site (half built by 1959). By its first fall frost it sits near the middle of the 695 places in Illinois on this site (October 24).

When to clean gutters in Moweaqua

The first fall frost comes around October 24 in a typical year here, and the last spring frost around April 14 (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 Moweaqua rain

What overwhelms a gutter is a burst, not a season. In Moweaqua the five-minute rain expected about once in ten years falls at 7.62 inches an hour (NOAA Atlas 14 Volume 2). At that rate one 2-by-3-inch downspout drains about 940 square feet of roof and one 3-by-4-inch downspout about 1,890, 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 Moweaqua

Half the homes in Moweaqua were built by 1959, 77% 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.

75% of households own their home, and 81% of homes are detached houses, 1% townhouses. In a townhouse or HOA community, check who owns the gutters and what colors are allowed before booking.

Hiring in Illinois

Ask any contractor working in Moweaqua what Illinois requires of them for gutter work, and to show proof of insurance. Hiring a gutter contractor

Gutter work in Moweaqua

With half the homes built by 1959, replacement gutters and the fascia behind them come up more often here than in newer suburbs. The line takes all of it:

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