Ouachita Parish, Louisiana
Gutter cleaning, repair and new gutters in Brownsville, LA
Rain in Brownsville adds up to about 56 inches in a normal year, with about 18 days that bring an inch or more. The wettest season is spring (March to May), with about 16.0 inches; the driest is fall (September to November), with 12.0. That is about 34,500 gallons a year off each 1,000 square feet of roof, every drop of it through a gutter and a downspout.
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NOAA station USC00169631, 2 miBars to one scale; the longest is spring (March to May).
Counting days with an inch of rain or more, Brownsville sits among the fewest heavy-rain days of the 269 places in Louisiana on this site (18.3 a year). By house age it falls near the middle of the 269 places in Louisiana on this site (half built by 1985). By its first fall frost it sits 29th earliest for the first fall frost of the 222 places in Louisiana on this site (November 15).
When to clean gutters in Brownsville
The first fall frost comes around November 15 in a typical year here, and the last spring frost around March 8 (median dates, NOAA normals). Booking the fall cleaning after the first frost, once the trees over the roof are bare, catches the season’s drop in one visit; the spring cleaning comes after the pollen and catkins are down.
When to clean gutters explains how the trees over a roof change the schedule.
Gutter and downspout size for Brownsville rain
What overwhelms a gutter is a burst, not a season. In Brownsville the five-minute rain expected about once in ten years falls at 8.89 inches an hour (NOAA Atlas 14 Volume 9). At that rate one 2-by-3-inch downspout drains about 810 square feet of roof and one 3-by-4-inch downspout about 1,620, 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 Brownsville
Half the homes in Brownsville were built by 1985, 37% 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.
57% of households own their home, and 51% of homes are detached houses, 1% townhouses. In a townhouse or HOA community, check who owns the gutters and what colors are allowed before booking.
Hiring in Louisiana
Ask any contractor working in Brownsville what Louisiana requires of them for gutter work, and to show proof of insurance. Hiring a gutter contractor
Gutter work in Brownsville
With half the homes built by 1985, replacement gutters and the fascia behind them come up more often here than in newer suburbs. The line takes all of it: