City of Sugar Hill
Gutter cleaning, repair and new gutters in Sugar Hill, GA
Around Sugar Hill, the NOAA normal is 56 inches a year, with 18 inch-plus days. Winter (December to February) is the wettest stretch (15.7 in). A modest 1,000-square-foot roof here sends 34,900 gallons a year down its downspouts.
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NOAA station USC00092408, 11 miBars to one scale; the longest is winter (December to February).
Inch-plus rain days put Sugar Hill 15th for heavy-rain days of the 76 places on this site (17.5 a year). Its housing stock is among the newest by median year built of the 76 places on this site (half built by 2002). First frost lands 2nd earliest for the first fall frost of the 76 places on this site (November 4).
Cleanout calendar
Median frost dates for Sugar Hill: first in fall about November 4, last in spring about April 4 (NOAA). Fall cleanout after the frost, spring cleanout after the pollen: two visits cover most Atlanta yards with trees.
More on the timing, and on how the trees over a roof change it: when to clean gutters in metro Atlanta.
Downpours and downspouts
Atlanta thunderstorms are the real test. For Sugar Hill, NOAA Atlas 14 puts the ten-year, five-minute burst at 7.94 inches an hour. Using the Copper Development Association rule, that means roughly 910 sq ft of roof per 2×3 downspout, or 1,810 sq ft per 3×4.
Work out your own roof with the gutter size calculator, which uses this figure for Sugar Hill.
Sugar Hill’s houses
The typical house in Sugar Hill dates to 2002, and 9% predate 1980 (Census ACS). Builder gutters, mostly in fine shape: cleaning and guards are the common jobs.
Owners occupy 79% of homes; 78% are single-family detached and 10% attached. Townhome owners: your HOA may handle gutters, or set the colors.
Runoff, drains and the county
Sugar Hill is an incorporated city, so questions about street drains, ditches and runoff start with the city’s public works office; Gwinnett County answers for the unincorporated areas around it. Wherever the water goes, it should leave the downspout well clear of the foundation and the beds along it. Downspouts and drainage
Common calls from Sugar Hill
17.5 inch-plus days a year expose clogs and short downspouts fast.