Hancock County, Mississippi
Gutter cleaning, repair and new gutters in Bay St. Louis, MS
Rain in Bay St. Louis adds up to about 65 inches in a normal year, with about 21 days that bring an inch or more. The wettest season is summer (June to August), with about 20.1 inches; the driest is fall (September to November), with 13.4. Every 1,000 square feet of roof sheds about 40,300 gallons a year, and all of it goes through the gutters.
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NOAA station USC00229426, 2 miBars to one scale; the longest is summer (June to August).
For days with an inch of rain or more, Bay St. Louis ranks 25th for heavy-rain days of the 186 places in Mississippi on this site (20.8 a year). By house age it falls among the newest by median year built of the 183 places in Mississippi on this site (half built by 1993). By its first fall frost it sits among the latest for the first fall frost of the 185 places in Mississippi on this site (December 3).
When to clean gutters in Bay St. Louis
The first fall frost comes around December 3 in a typical year here, and the last spring frost around February 21 (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 Bay St. Louis rain
What overwhelms a gutter is a burst, not a season. In Bay St. Louis the five-minute rain expected about once in ten years falls at 11.00 inches an hour (NOAA Atlas 14 Volume 9). At that rate one 2-by-3-inch downspout drains about 650 square feet of roof and one 3-by-4-inch downspout about 1,310, 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 Bay St. Louis
Half the homes in Bay St. Louis were built by 1993, 40% 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.
76% of households own their home, and 80% of homes are detached houses, 1% townhouses. Where an HOA governs the exterior, its rules on gutter color and style apply before any order is placed.
Hiring in Mississippi
Ask any contractor working in Bay St. Louis what Mississippi requires of them for gutter work, and to show proof of insurance. Hiring a gutter contractor
Gutter work in Bay St. Louis
With 20.8 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: