City of Canton
Gutter cleaning, repair and new gutters in Canton, GA
Metro Atlanta weather, Canton edition: 56 inches of rain in an average year and 16 days with an inch or more. Winter (December to February) is the wettest stretch (15.6 in). Picture 34,500 gallons a year coming off each 1,000 square feet of shingles.
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NOAA station USC00091585, 3 miBars to one scale; the longest is winter (December to February).
Inch-plus rain days put Canton 18th for heavy-rain days of the 76 places on this site (16.2 a year). On house age it is among the newest by median year built of the 76 places on this site (half built by 2004). For fall frost it is 2nd earliest for the first fall frost of the 76 places on this site (November 4).
Cleanout calendar
Median frost dates for Canton: first in fall about November 4, last in spring about April 2 (NOAA). Schedule the leaf cleanout once the frost has come and the hardwoods are bare, and a second pass after the spring pine pollen.
More on the timing, and on how the trees over a roof change it: when to clean gutters in metro Atlanta.
Downpours and downspouts
Summer storms here dump rain in bursts. For Canton, NOAA Atlas 14 puts the ten-year, five-minute burst at 8.23 inches an hour. Using the Copper Development Association rule, that means roughly 870 sq ft of roof per 2×3 downspout, or 1,750 sq ft per 3×4.
Work out your own roof with the gutter size calculator, which uses this figure for Canton.
Canton’s houses
The typical house in Canton dates to 2004, and 12% predate 1980 (Census ACS). Newer houses usually still carry the builder’s gutters, so most calls are cleanouts, guards and small leaks.
Owners occupy 54% of homes; 62% are single-family detached and 7% attached. In HOA neighborhoods, ask the association first.
Runoff, drains and the county
Canton is an incorporated city, so questions about street drains, ditches and runoff start with the city’s public works office; Cherokee County answers for the unincorporated areas around it. The gutter’s job ends at the downspout: water let out next to the foundation can come back as a wet crawl space or a washed-out bed. Downspouts and drainage
Common calls from Canton
16.2 inch-plus days a year expose clogs and short downspouts fast.