Terrebonne Parish, Louisiana
Gutter cleaning, repair and new gutters in Bourg, LA
Bourg gets about 65 inches of rain in a normal year, and on about 22 days a year an inch or more falls in a single day. The wettest season is summer (June to August), with about 24.0 inches; the driest is spring (March to May), with 12.8. Every 1,000 square feet of roof sheds about 40,600 gallons a year, and all of it goes through the gutters.
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NOAA station USC00164407, 13 miBars to one scale; the longest is summer (June to August).
For days with an inch of rain or more, Bourg ranks 22nd for heavy-rain days of the 269 places in Louisiana on this site (21.8 a year). By house age it falls among the newest by median year built of the 269 places in Louisiana on this site (half built by 1991).
When to clean gutters in Bourg
Frost is rare in Bourg, and in many years there is none (NOAA normals). With no hard freeze to strip the trees, the fall cleaning follows the leaf drop itself; book it once the trees over the roof are bare, and plan a second visit in spring.
When to clean gutters explains how the trees over a roof change the schedule.
Gutter and downspout size for Bourg rain
What overwhelms a gutter is a burst, not a season. In Bourg the five-minute rain expected about once in ten years falls at 10.86 inches an hour (NOAA Atlas 14 Volume 9). At that rate one 2-by-3-inch downspout drains about 660 square feet of roof and one 3-by-4-inch downspout about 1,330, 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 Bourg
Half the homes in Bourg were built by 1991, 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.
86% of households own their home, and 70% of homes are detached houses, 11% townhouses. Where an HOA governs the exterior, its rules on gutter color and style apply before any order is placed.
Hiring in Louisiana
Ask any contractor working in Bourg what Louisiana requires of them for gutter work, and to show proof of insurance. Hiring a gutter contractor
Gutter work in Bourg
With 21.8 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: