Lowndes County, Mississippi
Gutter cleaning, repair and new gutters in Columbus, MS
Columbus gets about 57 inches of rain in a normal year, and on about 17 days a year an inch or more falls in a single day. The wettest season is winter (December to February), with about 16.7 inches; the driest is fall (September to November), with 11.2. Every 1,000 square feet of roof sheds about 35,100 gallons a year, and all of it goes through the gutters.
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NOAA station USC00221880, 3 miBars to one scale; the longest is winter (December to February).
For days with an inch of rain or more, Columbus ranks among the fewest heavy-rain days of the 186 places in Mississippi on this site (17.4 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 1974). The first frost here ranks near the middle of the 185 places in Mississippi on this site (November 12).
When to clean gutters in Columbus
The first fall frost comes around November 12 in a typical year here, and the last spring frost around March 13 (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 Columbus rain
What overwhelms a gutter is a burst, not a season. In Columbus the five-minute rain expected about once in ten years falls at 8.42 inches an hour (NOAA Atlas 14 Volume 9). At that rate one 2-by-3-inch downspout drains about 860 square feet of roof and one 3-by-4-inch downspout about 1,710, 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 Columbus
Half the homes in Columbus were built by 1974, 62% 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.
48% of households own their home, and 66% of homes are detached houses, 1% townhouses. Where an HOA governs the exterior, its rules on gutter color and style apply before any order is placed.
Hiring in Mississippi
Ask any contractor working in Columbus what Mississippi requires of them for gutter work, and to show proof of insurance. Hiring a gutter contractor
Gutter work in Columbus
With half the homes built by 1974, replacement gutters and the fascia behind them come up more often here than in newer suburbs. The line takes all of it: