Shelby County, Alabama
Gutter cleaning, repair and new gutters in Brook Highland, AL
Brook Highland gets about 56 inches of rain in a normal year, and on about 19 days a year an inch or more falls in a single day. The wettest season is winter (December to February), with about 15.9 inches; the driest is fall (September to November), with 12.1. Off a 1,000-square-foot roof, that comes to about 34,700 gallons a year for the gutters to carry.
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NOAA station USC00011225, 2 miBars to one scale; the longest is winter (December to February).
By heavy-rain days, Brook Highland falls 78th for heavy-rain days of the 323 places in Alabama on this site (18.9 a year). By the age of its homes it sits among the newest by median year built of the 323 places in Alabama on this site (half built by 1994). The first frost here ranks near the middle of the 320 places in Alabama on this site (November 11).
When to clean gutters in Brook Highland
The first fall frost comes around November 11 in a typical year here, and the last spring frost around March 21 (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 Brook Highland rain
Gutters are sized for the worst few minutes of a storm, not for the year. In Brook Highland the five-minute rain expected about once in ten years falls at 8.22 inches an hour (NOAA Atlas 14 Volume 9). At that rate one 2-by-3-inch downspout drains about 880 square feet of roof and one 3-by-4-inch downspout about 1,750, 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 Brook Highland
Half the homes in Brook Highland were built by 1994, 6% 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.
46% of households own their home, and 29% of homes are detached houses, 19% townhouses. Where an HOA governs the exterior, its rules on gutter color and style apply before any order is placed.
Hiring in Alabama
Before hiring in Brook Highland, ask which Alabama license or registration the contractor holds and for a certificate of liability insurance. Hiring a gutter contractor
Gutter work in Brook Highland
With 18.9 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: