Marion County, Arkansas
Gutter cleaning, repair and new gutters in Bull Shoals, AR
A normal year in Bull Shoals brings about 41 inches of rain; on roughly 11 of its days, an inch or more comes down at once. The wettest season is spring (March to May), with about 12.8 inches; the driest is winter (December to February), with 8.1. Off a 1,000-square-foot roof, that comes to about 25,500 gallons a year for the gutters to carry.
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NOAA station USW00053918, 7 miBars to one scale; the longest is spring (March to May).
By heavy-rain days, Bull Shoals falls among the fewest heavy-rain days of the 211 places in Arkansas on this site (10.8 a year). Its housing ranks near the middle of the 211 places in Arkansas on this site (half built by 1986). By first frost it falls 53rd earliest for the first fall frost of the 211 places in Arkansas on this site (November 1).
When to clean gutters in Bull Shoals
The first fall frost comes around November 1 in a typical year here, and the last spring frost around April 2 (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 Bull Shoals rain
Gutters are sized for the worst few minutes of a storm, not for the year. In Bull Shoals the five-minute rain expected about once in ten years falls at 7.81 inches an hour (NOAA Atlas 14 Volume 9). At that rate one 2-by-3-inch downspout drains about 920 square feet of roof and one 3-by-4-inch downspout about 1,840, 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 Bull Shoals
Half the homes in Bull Shoals were built by 1986, 36% 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.
74% of households own their home, and 71% of homes are detached houses, 3% townhouses. If an association maintains the exterior, the gutters may be its job rather than yours; check before calling.
Hiring in Arkansas
Licensing for gutter work differs from state to state; ask a contractor in Bull Shoals which license or registration they hold in Arkansas, and for proof of liability insurance. Hiring a gutter contractor
Gutter work in Bull Shoals
In a neighborhood with half its homes built by 1986, the usual calls are cleaning, guards and small repairs. The line takes all of it: