For example on a 2 000 square foot roof you can collect 2 000 x 0 56 1 120 gallons inch of rain.
2000 sqft roof 1inch of rain how much water.
To get an idea how much water the roof of your own house might yield use the rainfall harvest calculator above.
So if you have 2 500 square feet of roof available for water catchment and a single inch of rain falls one day we see that.
Use our metric system version.
Surprisingly a single quarter acre of land in the city can harvest over 100 000 gallons of water annually.
To find how much rain you can collect in an average rain year multiply this number by the average inches of rain.
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.
This calculation assumes a 90 efficiency.
It is the middle of july in georgia and both you and your tomatoes are wilting in your yard both looking to the sky and hoping for rain.
36 4 x 46 4 2 000 sq ft your roof catchment area is thus 2 000 square feet.
How much rainwater can i collect from my roof.
So a 50 x 20 roof is 600 x 240 multiply the roof dimensions by the number of inches of rainfall.
Just a half inch of rain falling on a 1 000 square foot roof will yield 300 gallons of water.
In this example 600 x 240 x 1 144 000 cubic inches of water divide by 231 to get the number of gallons because 1 gallon 231 cubic inches.
Even though we live in the arid southwest santa fe receives an average of 14 2 inches over 66 days of rain each year.
Take the dimensions of the footprint of your roof and convert them to inches.
Rain barrel supplies list.
Rainfall calculator english units how much water falls during a storm.
When you look at the numbers it s surprising how much water you can collect every time it rains.