Cape Girardeau County, Missouri
Gutter cleaning, repair and new gutters in Cape Girardeau, MO
A normal year in Cape Girardeau brings about 48 inches of rain; on roughly 13 of its days, an inch or more comes down at once. The wettest season is spring (March to May), with about 15.1 inches; the driest is winter (December to February), with 10.4. Off a 1,000-square-foot roof, that comes to about 29,700 gallons a year for the gutters to carry.
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NOAA station USW00003935, 6 miBars to one scale; the longest is spring (March to May).
By heavy-rain days, Cape Girardeau falls 74th for heavy-rain days of the 361 places in Missouri on this site (13.0 a year). Its housing ranks near the middle of the 361 places in Missouri on this site (half built by 1975). By first frost it falls near the middle of the 361 places in Missouri on this site (October 25).
When to clean gutters in Cape Girardeau
The first fall frost comes around October 25 in a typical year here, and the last spring frost around April 5 (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 Cape Girardeau rain
Gutters are sized for the worst few minutes of a storm, not for the year. In Cape Girardeau the five-minute rain expected about once in ten years falls at 8.06 inches an hour (NOAA Atlas 14 Volume 8). At that rate one 2-by-3-inch downspout drains about 890 square feet of roof and one 3-by-4-inch downspout about 1,790, 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 Cape Girardeau
Half the homes in Cape Girardeau were built by 1975, 59% 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.
52% of households own their home, and 63% 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 Missouri
Before hiring in Cape Girardeau, ask which Missouri license or registration the contractor holds and for a certificate of liability insurance. Hiring a gutter contractor
Gutter work in Cape Girardeau
With half the homes built by 1975, replacement gutters and the fascia behind them come up more often here than in newer suburbs. The line takes all of it: