Clark County, Indiana
Gutter cleaning, repair and new gutters in Clarksville, IN
Clarksville gets about 48 inches of rain in a normal year, and on about 13 days a year an inch or more falls in a single day. The wettest season is spring (March to May), with about 14.1 inches; the driest is fall (September to November), with 11.2. Off a 1,000-square-foot roof, that comes to about 29,800 gallons a year for the gutters to carry.
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NOAA station USC00154955, 3 miBars to one scale; the longest is spring (March to May).
By heavy-rain days, Clarksville falls 32nd for heavy-rain days of the 344 places in Indiana on this site (13.4 a year). Its housing ranks near the middle of the 344 places in Indiana on this site (half built by 1970). The first frost here ranks among the latest for the first fall frost of the 344 places in Indiana on this site (November 9).
When to clean gutters in Clarksville
The first fall frost comes around November 9 in a typical year here, and the last spring frost around March 31 (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 Clarksville rain
Gutters are sized for the worst few minutes of a storm, not for the year. In Clarksville the five-minute rain expected about once in ten years falls at 7.01 inches an hour (NOAA Atlas 14 Volume 2). At that rate one 2-by-3-inch downspout drains about 1,030 square feet of roof and one 3-by-4-inch downspout about 2,050, 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 Clarksville
Half the homes in Clarksville were built by 1970, 69% 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.
60% of households own their home, and 59% of homes are detached houses, 5% townhouses. Where an HOA governs the exterior, its rules on gutter color and style apply before any order is placed.
Hiring in Indiana
Before hiring in Clarksville, ask which Indiana license or registration the contractor holds and for a certificate of liability insurance. Hiring a gutter contractor
Gutter work in Clarksville
With half the homes built by 1970, replacement gutters and the fascia behind them come up more often here than in newer suburbs. The line takes all of it: