Alachua County, Florida
Gutter cleaning, repair and new gutters in Alachua, FL
Alachua gets about 52 inches of rain in a normal year, and on about 17 days a year an inch or more falls in a single day. The wettest season is summer (June to August), with about 21.0 inches; the driest is winter (December to February), with 9.5. That is about 32,000 gallons a year off each 1,000 square feet of roof, every drop of it through a gutter and a downspout.
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NOAA station USC00083956, 9 miBars to one scale; the longest is summer (June to August).
Counting days with an inch of rain or more, Alachua sits near the middle of the 758 places in Florida on this site (17.1 a year). By house age it falls among the newest by median year built of the 761 places in Florida on this site (half built by 1994). By its first fall frost it sits near the middle of the 131 places in Florida on this site (December 4).
When to clean gutters in Alachua
The first fall frost comes around December 4 in a typical year here, and the last spring frost around March 4 (median dates, NOAA normals). Booking the fall cleaning after the first frost, once the trees over the roof are bare, catches the season’s drop in one visit; the spring cleaning comes after the pollen and catkins are down.
When to clean gutters explains how the trees over a roof change the schedule.
Gutter and downspout size for Alachua rain
What overwhelms a gutter is a burst, not a season. In Alachua the five-minute rain expected about once in ten years falls at 9.44 inches an hour (NOAA Atlas 14 Volume 9). At that rate one 2-by-3-inch downspout drains about 760 square feet of roof and one 3-by-4-inch downspout about 1,530, by the rule in the Copper Development Association’s design handbook. Try your own roof in the gutter and downspout calculator, which starts from this figure.
The houses in Alachua
Half the homes in Alachua were built by 1994, 24% before 1980 (ACS 2020–2024). In a neighborhood that age, many houses are on their second set of gutters or due for one, and the fascia board behind them is worth checking at the same visit.
74% of households own their home, and 83% of homes are detached houses, 4% townhouses. In a townhouse or HOA community, check who owns the gutters and what colors are allowed before booking.
Hiring in Florida
Ask any contractor working in Alachua what Florida requires of them for gutter work, and to show proof of insurance. Hiring a gutter contractor
Gutter work in Alachua
With 17.1 days a year of an inch or more, a clogged gutter or a short downspout shows up here quickly. The line takes all of it: