Ray County, Missouri
Gutter cleaning, repair and new gutters in Richmond, MO
Richmond gets about 42 inches of rain in a normal year, and on about 13 days a year an inch or more falls in a single day. The wettest season is summer (June to August), with about 14.5 inches; the driest is winter (December to February), with 4.6. Off a 1,000-square-foot roof, that comes to about 26,100 gallons a year for the gutters to carry.
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NOAA station USC00237116, 2 miBars to one scale; the longest is summer (June to August).
By heavy-rain days, Richmond falls 87th for heavy-rain days of the 361 places in Missouri on this site (12.8 a year). Its housing ranks 84th oldest by median year built of the 361 places in Missouri on this site (half built by 1964). By first frost it falls 31st earliest for the first fall frost of the 361 places in Missouri on this site (October 18).
When to clean gutters in Richmond
The first fall frost comes around October 18 in a typical year here, and the last spring frost around April 19 (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 Richmond rain
Gutters are sized for the worst few minutes of a storm, not for the year. In Richmond the five-minute rain expected about once in ten years falls at 8.27 inches an hour (NOAA Atlas 14 Volume 8). At that rate one 2-by-3-inch downspout drains about 870 square feet of roof and one 3-by-4-inch downspout about 1,740, 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 Richmond
Half the homes in Richmond were built by 1964, 68% 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.
56% of households own their home, and 72% of homes are detached houses, 1% townhouses. If an association maintains the exterior, the gutters may be its job rather than yours; check before calling.
Hiring in Missouri
Before hiring in Richmond, ask which Missouri license or registration the contractor holds and for a certificate of liability insurance. Hiring a gutter contractor
Gutter work in Richmond
With half the homes built by 1964, replacement gutters and the fascia behind them come up more often here than in newer suburbs. The line takes all of it: