Putnam County, Tennessee
Gutter cleaning, repair and new gutters in Baxter, TN
Baxter gets about 60 inches of rain in a normal year, and on about 17 days a year an inch or more falls in a single day. The wettest season is winter (December to February), with about 16.9 inches; the driest is fall (September to November), with 12.1. Every 1,000 square feet of roof sheds about 37,200 gallons a year, and all of it goes through the gutters.
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NOAA station USC00402009, 8 miBars to one scale; the longest is winter (December to February).
By heavy-rain days, Baxter falls near the middle of the 296 places in Tennessee on this site (17.2 a year). Its housing ranks near the middle of the 296 places in Tennessee on this site (half built by 1988). The first frost here ranks 72nd earliest for the first fall frost of the 296 places in Tennessee on this site (October 25).
When to clean gutters in Baxter
The first fall frost comes around October 25 in a typical year here, and the last spring frost around April 14 (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 Baxter rain
Gutters are sized for the worst few minutes of a storm, not for the year. In Baxter the five-minute rain expected about once in ten years falls at 7.08 inches an hour (NOAA Atlas 14 Volume 2). At that rate one 2-by-3-inch downspout drains about 1,020 square feet of roof and one 3-by-4-inch downspout about 2,030, 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 Baxter
Half the homes in Baxter were built by 1988, 37% 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.
66% of households own their home, and 69% of homes are detached houses, 3% townhouses. Where an HOA governs the exterior, its rules on gutter color and style apply before any order is placed.
Hiring in Tennessee
Tennessee requires a home improvement license for residential projects from $3,000 to $24,999 only in the counties that adopted the law: Bradley, Davidson, Hamilton, Haywood, Knox, Marion, Robertson, Rutherford and Shelby. From $25,000 a contractor license is required statewide. In those nine counties, ask for the home improvement license number on any job of $3,000 or more and check it.
Source: Tennessee Board for Licensing Contractors, Home Improvement. Look-up: Tennessee license verification.
Gutter work in Baxter
With 17.2 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: