Le Flore County, Oklahoma
Gutter cleaning, repair and new gutters in Arkoma, OK
Arkoma gets about 47 inches of rain in a normal year, and on about 14 days a year an inch or more falls in a single day. The wettest season is spring (March to May), with about 14.4 inches; the driest is winter (December to February), with 9.1. Every 1,000 square feet of roof sheds about 29,400 gallons a year, and all of it goes through the gutters.
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NOAA station USW00013964, 5 miBars to one scale; the longest is spring (March to May).
For days with an inch of rain or more, Arkoma ranks 34th for heavy-rain days of the 227 places in Oklahoma on this site (14.0 a year). By the age of its homes it sits near the middle of the 227 places in Oklahoma on this site (half built by 1971). By its first fall frost it sits among the latest for the first fall frost of the 226 places in Oklahoma on this site (November 6).
When to clean gutters in Arkoma
The first fall frost comes around November 6 in a typical year here, and the last spring frost around March 25 (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 Arkoma rain
What overwhelms a gutter is a burst, not a season. In Arkoma the five-minute rain expected about once in ten years falls at 7.54 inches an hour (NOAA Atlas 14 Volume 8). At that rate one 2-by-3-inch downspout drains about 950 square feet of roof and one 3-by-4-inch downspout about 1,910, 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 Arkoma
Half the homes in Arkoma were built by 1971, 70% 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.
60% of households own their home, and 74% of homes are detached houses, 2% townhouses. In a townhouse or HOA community, check who owns the gutters and what colors are allowed before booking.
Hiring in Oklahoma
Ask any contractor working in Arkoma what Oklahoma requires of them for gutter work, and to show proof of insurance. Hiring a gutter contractor
Gutter work in Arkoma
With half the homes built by 1971, replacement gutters and the fascia behind them come up more often here than in newer suburbs. The line takes all of it: