Pontotoc County, Mississippi
Gutter cleaning, repair and new gutters in Algoma, MS
Algoma gets about 61 inches of rain in a normal year, and on about 18 days a year an inch or more falls in a single day. The wettest season is spring (March to May), with about 17.1 inches; the driest is fall (September to November), with 12.2. That is about 37,700 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 USC00227111, 4 miBars to one scale; the longest is spring (March to May).
Counting days with an inch of rain or more, Algoma sits near the middle of the 186 places in Mississippi on this site (18.4 a year). Its housing ranks among the newest by median year built of the 183 places in Mississippi on this site (half built by 1996). By its first fall frost it sits near the middle of the 185 places in Mississippi on this site (November 8).
When to clean gutters in Algoma
The first fall frost comes around November 8 in a typical year here, and the last spring frost around March 28 (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 Algoma rain
What overwhelms a gutter is a burst, not a season. In Algoma the five-minute rain expected about once in ten years falls at 8.60 inches an hour (NOAA Atlas 14 Volume 9). At that rate one 2-by-3-inch downspout drains about 840 square feet of roof and one 3-by-4-inch downspout about 1,670, 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 Algoma
Half the homes in Algoma were built by 1996, 20% before 1980 (ACS 2020–2024). In a neighborhood that young, many houses still have the gutters the builder put up, and the usual call is a cleaning, a leak or guards rather than a full replacement.
84% of households own their home, and 61% of homes are detached houses. In a townhouse or HOA community, check who owns the gutters and what colors are allowed before booking.
Hiring in Mississippi
Ask any contractor working in Algoma what Mississippi requires of them for gutter work, and to show proof of insurance. Hiring a gutter contractor
Gutter work in Algoma
With 18.4 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: