East Baton Rouge Parish, Louisiana
Gutter cleaning, repair and new gutters in Baton Rouge, LA
A normal year in Baton Rouge brings about 68 inches of rain; on roughly 21 of its days, an inch or more comes down at once. The wettest season is summer (June to August), with about 20.6 inches; the driest is fall (September to November), with 13.9. Off a 1,000-square-foot roof, that comes to about 41,900 gallons a year for the gutters to carry.
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NOAA station USC00160548, 1 miBars to one scale; the longest is summer (June to August).
By heavy-rain days, Baton Rouge falls 60th for heavy-rain days of the 269 places in Louisiana on this site (20.9 a year). Its housing ranks near the middle of the 269 places in Louisiana on this site (half built by 1975). By first frost it falls near the middle of the 222 places in Louisiana on this site (November 26).
When to clean gutters in Baton Rouge
The first fall frost comes around November 26 in a typical year here, and the last spring frost around February 28 (median dates, NOAA normals). A fall cleaning set for the weeks after that frost, when the branches over the house are bare, gets the year’s leaves in one trip; a spring visit follows once the pollen and catkins have come down.
When to clean gutters explains how the trees over a roof change the schedule.
Gutter and downspout size for Baton Rouge rain
Gutters are sized for the worst few minutes of a storm, not for the year. In Baton Rouge the five-minute rain expected about once in ten years falls at 9.91 inches an hour (NOAA Atlas 14 Volume 9). At that rate one 2-by-3-inch downspout drains about 730 square feet of roof and one 3-by-4-inch downspout about 1,450, 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 Baton Rouge
Half the homes in Baton Rouge were built by 1975, 59% 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.
47% of households own their home, and 55% of homes are detached houses, 3% townhouses. If an association maintains the exterior, the gutters may be its job rather than yours; check before calling.
Hiring in Louisiana
Licensing for gutter work differs from state to state; ask a contractor in Baton Rouge which license or registration they hold in Louisiana, and for proof of liability insurance. Hiring a gutter contractor
Gutter work in Baton Rouge
With half the homes built by 1975, replacement gutters and the fascia behind them come up more often here than in newer suburbs. The line takes all of it: