Meaning you can capture about 62 gallons per sq ft.
Gallons of water per square foot of roof.
The collectable rainwater from the roof can be calculated in gallons using this calculator based on the rainfall and area.
Roof area the 3 inch rainfall will produce 18 700 gallons in one hour at the rate of 312 gallons per minute.
Up to 6 12 7 12 8 12.
Primary cause for water spillage is debri in the gutter.
For example on a 2 000 square foot roof you can collect 2 000 x 0 56 1 120 gallons inch of rain.
Or 0312 gallons per minute sq.
To figure out the square footage of a surface multiply the width x length.
In this example you would multiply 7 48 times 600 to get 4 488 gallons of water.
To calculate the runoff from any given rainfall.
Calculate rainwater collection in gallons rain fall inches.
Roof area square feet per linear ft of gutter underneath.
If your average rainfall was 25 inches year your annual collection potential is 1 120 x 25 28 000 gallons year.
The answer is about 623 gallons.
The square footage of a roof is the same whether it is pitched or flat.
Take the dimensions of the footprint of your roof and convert them to inches.
It doesn t take many sticks leaves or needles to impede the proper flow of.
So a 50 x 20 roof is 600 x 240 multiply the roof dimensions by the number of inches of rainfall.
Multiply the cubic feet by the amount of water per cubic foot which is 7 48 gallons.
Take a guess what is the volume of water that runs off a 1 000 square foot roof during a 1 rain storm.
Using a 10 000 sq.