Tallahatchie County, Mississippi
Gutter cleaning, repair and new gutters in Charleston, MS
A normal year in Charleston brings about 55 inches of rain; on roughly 17 of its days, an inch or more comes down at once. The wettest season is winter (December to February), with about 16.3 inches; the driest is fall (September to November), with 11.6. That is about 34,300 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 USC00222773, 14 miBars to one scale; the longest is winter (December to February).
For days with an inch of rain or more, Charleston ranks among the fewest heavy-rain days of the 186 places in Mississippi on this site (17.2 a year). By the age of its homes it sits near the middle of the 183 places in Mississippi on this site (half built by 1975). By its first fall frost it sits 47th earliest for the first fall frost of the 185 places in Mississippi on this site (November 7).
When to clean gutters in Charleston
The first fall frost comes around November 7 in a typical year here, and the last spring frost around March 17 (median dates, NOAA normals). Plan the fall visit for after the frost, when the trees over the roof have finished dropping, and the spring visit for after the pollen and catkins.
When to clean gutters explains how the trees over a roof change the schedule.
Gutter and downspout size for Charleston rain
What overwhelms a gutter is a burst, not a season. In Charleston the five-minute rain expected about once in ten years falls at 8.24 inches an hour (NOAA Atlas 14 Volume 9). At that rate one 2-by-3-inch downspout drains about 870 square feet of roof and one 3-by-4-inch downspout about 1,750, 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 Charleston
Half the homes in Charleston were built by 1975, 61% 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. 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.
57% of households own their home, and 72% 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 Mississippi
Ask any contractor working in Charleston what Mississippi requires of them for gutter work, and to show proof of insurance. Hiring a gutter contractor
Gutter work in Charleston
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: