Cowley County, Kansas
Gutter cleaning, repair and new gutters in Arkansas City, KS
Arkansas City gets about 39 inches of rain in a normal year, and on about 12 days a year an inch or more falls in a single day. The wettest season is summer (June to August), with about 14.3 inches; the driest is winter (December to February), with 4.0. Every 1,000 square feet of roof sheds about 24,200 gallons a year, and all of it goes through the gutters.
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NOAA station USC00140313, 1 miBars to one scale; the longest is summer (June to August).
For days with an inch of rain or more, Arkansas City ranks 20th for heavy-rain days of the 162 places in Kansas on this site (12.3 a year). By house age it falls 34th oldest by median year built of the 162 places in Kansas on this site (half built by 1955). The first frost here ranks near the middle of the 162 places in Kansas on this site (October 27).
When to clean gutters in Arkansas City
The first fall frost comes around October 27 in a typical year here, and the last spring frost around April 11 (median dates, NOAA normals). Plan the fall visit for after the frost, when the trees over the roof have finished dropping, and the spring visit for after the pollen and catkins.
When to clean gutters explains how the trees over a roof change the schedule.
Gutter and downspout size for Arkansas City rain
What overwhelms a gutter is a burst, not a season. In Arkansas City the five-minute rain expected about once in ten years falls at 8.24 inches an hour (NOAA Atlas 14 Volume 8). At that rate one 2-by-3-inch downspout drains about 870 square feet of roof and one 3-by-4-inch downspout about 1,750, 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 Arkansas City
Half the homes in Arkansas City were built by 1955, 80% 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. 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.
63% of households own their home, and 72% 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 Kansas
Before hiring in Arkansas City, ask which Kansas license or registration the contractor holds and for a certificate of liability insurance. Hiring a gutter contractor
Gutter work in Arkansas City
With half the homes built by 1955, replacement gutters and the fascia behind them come up more often here than in newer suburbs. The line takes all of it: