Lincoln County, South Dakota
Gutter cleaning, repair and new gutters in Tea, SD
Rain in Tea adds up to about 28 inches in a normal year, with about 6 days that bring an inch or more. The wettest season is summer (June to August), with about 10.8 inches; the driest is winter (December to February), with 2.3. That is about 17,300 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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NOAA station USW00014944, 10 miBars to one scale; the longest is summer (June to August).
Counting days with an inch of rain or more, Tea sits 12th for heavy-rain days of the 54 places in South Dakota on this site (6.0 a year). Its housing ranks among the newest by median year built of the 54 places in South Dakota on this site (half built by 2002). By first frost it falls among the latest for the first fall frost of the 54 places in South Dakota on this site (October 13).
When to clean gutters in Tea
The first fall frost comes around October 13 in a typical year here, and the last spring frost around April 26 (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 Tea rain
The short, hard downpour is what a gutter is sized for. In Tea the five-minute rain expected about once in ten years falls at 7.52 inches an hour (NOAA Atlas 14 Volume 8). At that rate one 2-by-3-inch downspout drains about 960 square feet of roof and one 3-by-4-inch downspout about 1,910, 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.
Tea averages about 45 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 Tea
Half the homes in Tea were built by 2002, 15% before 1980 (ACS 2020–2024). Most houses here are young enough to have their first gutters, so cleanings, guards and small leaks come up more than replacements.
79% of households own their home, and 75% of homes are detached houses, 6% townhouses. If an association maintains the exterior, the gutters may be its job rather than yours; check before calling.
Hiring in South Dakota
Licensing for gutter work differs from state to state; ask a contractor in Tea which license or registration they hold in South Dakota, and for proof of liability insurance. Hiring a gutter contractor
Gutter work in Tea
In a neighborhood with half its homes built by 2002, the usual calls are cleaning, guards and small repairs. The line takes all of it: