St. Mary Parish, Louisiana
Gutter cleaning, repair and new gutters in Amelia, LA
A normal year in Amelia brings about 59 inches of rain; on roughly 17 of its days, an inch or more comes down at once. The wettest season is summer (June to August), with about 20.5 inches; the driest is winter (December to February), with 12.2. Off a 1,000-square-foot roof, that comes to about 36,300 gallons a year for the gutters to carry.
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NOAA station USC00166394, 4 miBars to one scale; the longest is summer (June to August).
By heavy-rain days, Amelia falls among the fewest heavy-rain days of the 269 places in Louisiana on this site (17.3 a year). Its housing ranks near the middle of the 269 places in Louisiana on this site (half built by 1978).
When to clean gutters in Amelia
Frost is rare in Amelia, and in many years there is none (NOAA normals). With no hard freeze to strip the trees, the fall cleaning follows the leaf drop itself; book it once the trees over the roof are bare, and plan a second visit in spring.
When to clean gutters explains how the trees over a roof change the schedule.
Gutter and downspout size for Amelia rain
Gutters are sized for the worst few minutes of a storm, not for the year. In Amelia the five-minute rain expected about once in ten years falls at 10.46 inches an hour (NOAA Atlas 14 Volume 9). At that rate one 2-by-3-inch downspout drains about 690 square feet of roof and one 3-by-4-inch downspout about 1,380, 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 Amelia
Half the homes in Amelia were built by 1978, 54% before 1980 (ACS 2020–2024). At that age a gutter has seen decades of leaves and storms, and the fascia it hangs from has too. On a house built before 1978, replacing more than 20 square feet of painted fascia or trim falls under the EPA’s lead-safe rule, so ask whether the crew is certified.
66% of households own their home, and 43% of homes are detached houses. Where an HOA governs the exterior, its rules on gutter color and style apply before any order is placed.
Hiring in Louisiana
Before hiring in Amelia, ask which Louisiana license or registration the contractor holds and for a certificate of liability insurance. Hiring a gutter contractor
Gutter work in Amelia
With half the homes built by 1978, replacement gutters and the fascia behind them come up more often here than in newer suburbs. The line takes all of it: