Leon County, Texas
Gutter cleaning, repair and new gutters in Buffalo, TX
Buffalo gets about 42 inches of rain in a normal year, and on about 15 days a year an inch or more falls in a single day. The wettest season is spring (March to May), with about 11.7 inches; the driest is summer (June to August), with 9.2. Off a 1,000-square-foot roof, that comes to about 26,300 gallons a year for the gutters to carry.
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NOAA station USC00411596, 15 miBars to one scale; the longest is spring (March to May).
By heavy-rain days, Buffalo falls 212th for heavy-rain days of the 959 places in Texas on this site (15.0 a year). Its housing ranks near the middle of the 959 places in Texas on this site (half built by 1987). By first frost it falls 187th earliest for the first fall frost of the 821 places in Texas on this site (November 12).
When to clean gutters in Buffalo
The first fall frost comes around November 12 in a typical year here, and the last spring frost around March 20 (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 Buffalo rain
Gutters are sized for the worst few minutes of a storm, not for the year. In Buffalo the five-minute rain expected about once in ten years falls at 9.00 inches an hour (NOAA Atlas 14 Volume 11). At that rate one 2-by-3-inch downspout drains about 800 square feet of roof and one 3-by-4-inch downspout about 1,600, 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 Buffalo
Half the homes in Buffalo were built by 1987, 35% 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.
53% of households own their home, and 41% of homes are detached houses, 2% townhouses. If an association maintains the exterior, the gutters may be its job rather than yours; check before calling.
Hiring in Texas
Before hiring in Buffalo, ask which Texas license or registration the contractor holds and for a certificate of liability insurance. Hiring a gutter contractor
Gutter work in Buffalo
In a neighborhood with half its homes built by 1987, the usual calls are cleaning, guards and small repairs. The line takes all of it: