Nicholas County, West Virginia
Gutter cleaning, repair and new gutters in Richwood, WV
Richwood gets about 56 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 15.9 inches; the driest is fall (September to November), with 11.6. Every 1,000 square feet of roof sheds about 34,600 gallons a year, and all of it goes through the gutters.
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NOAA station USC00467513, 1 miBars to one scale; the longest is spring (March to May).
For days with an inch of rain or more, Richwood ranks 7th for heavy-rain days of the 147 places in West Virginia on this site (11.3 a year). By house age it falls 15th oldest by median year built of the 147 places in West Virginia on this site (half built by 1950). By its first fall frost it sits 31st earliest for the first fall frost of the 147 places in West Virginia on this site (October 18).
When to clean gutters in Richwood
The first fall frost comes around October 18 in a typical year here, and the last spring frost around April 30 (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 Richwood rain
What overwhelms a gutter is a burst, not a season. In Richwood the five-minute rain expected about once in ten years falls at 5.72 inches an hour (NOAA Atlas 14 Volume 2). At that rate one 2-by-3-inch downspout drains about 1,260 square feet of roof and one 3-by-4-inch downspout about 2,520, 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.
Richwood averages about 100 inches of snow a year (NOAA normals). Snow on a roof brings ice dams: heat escaping from the house melts the snow, and the water refreezes at the cold eave, in the gutter and over it. University of Minnesota Extension puts the cause in the attic, not in the gutter, so a gutter that fills with ice is a symptom; hangers spaced to carry ice and a sound fascia are what the gutter itself needs.
The houses in Richwood
Half the homes in Richwood were built by 1950, 88% 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.
79% of households own their home, and 83% of homes are detached houses. In a townhouse or HOA community, check who owns the gutters and what colors are allowed before booking.
Hiring in West Virginia
Ask any contractor working in Richwood what West Virginia requires of them for gutter work, and to show proof of insurance. Hiring a gutter contractor
Gutter work in Richwood
With half the homes built by 1950, replacement gutters and the fascia behind them come up more often here than in newer suburbs. The line takes all of it: