Avoyelles Parish, Louisiana
Gutter cleaning, repair and new gutters in Bunkie, LA
Bunkie gets about 62 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 17.6 inches; the driest is summer (June to August), with 13.7. Off a 1,000-square-foot roof, that comes to about 38,200 gallons a year for the gutters to carry.
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NOAA station USC00161287, 1 miBars to one scale; the longest is winter (December to February).
By heavy-rain days, Bunkie falls near the middle of the 269 places in Louisiana on this site (19.4 a year). Its housing ranks 6th oldest by median year built of the 269 places in Louisiana on this site (half built by 1962). By first frost it falls near the middle of the 222 places in Louisiana on this site (November 24).
When to clean gutters in Bunkie
The first fall frost comes around November 24 in a typical year here, and the last spring frost around February 28 (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 Bunkie rain
Gutters are sized for the worst few minutes of a storm, not for the year. In Bunkie the five-minute rain expected about once in ten years falls at 10.51 inches an hour (NOAA Atlas 14 Volume 9). At that rate one 2-by-3-inch downspout drains about 690 square feet of roof and one 3-by-4-inch downspout about 1,370, 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 Bunkie
Half the homes in Bunkie were built by 1962, 77% 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. 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.
48% of households own their home, and 78% of homes are detached houses. If an association maintains the exterior, the gutters may be its job rather than yours; check before calling.
Hiring in Louisiana
Before hiring in Bunkie, ask which Louisiana license or registration the contractor holds and for a certificate of liability insurance. Hiring a gutter contractor
Gutter work in Bunkie
With half the homes built by 1962, replacement gutters and the fascia behind them come up more often here than in newer suburbs. The line takes all of it: