To calculate the runoff from any given rainfall.
Rain fell from a roof.
Either way you would like to know how much rain has fallen how many gallons have come down from the skies onto your roof yard block or town.
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If your average rainfall was 25 inches year your annual collection potential is 1 120 x 25 28 000 gallons year.
You might even want to know how many baths you could get from your rainstorm.
In this example 600 x 240 x 1 144 000 cubic inches of water.
So a 50 x 20 roof is 600 x 240 multiply the roof dimensions by the number of inches of rainfall.
However there is a way that you can redirect the rain off the roof so it falls harmlessly out of the way.
To find how much rain you can collect in an average rain year multiply this number by the average inches of rain.
Take the dimensions of the footprint of your roof and convert them to inches.
For example on a 2 000 square foot roof you can collect 2 000 x 0 56 1 120 gallons inch of rain.
1 place a piece of standard metal drip edge onto a table or between a pair of sawhorses.
In the form below choose an area s and a rainfall amount to see how many gallons of water fell from the sky onto that area.