Jackson County, Tennessee
Gutter cleaning, repair and new gutters in Dodson Branch, TN
Rain in Dodson Branch adds up to about 57 inches in a normal year, with about 16 days that bring an inch or more. The wettest season is winter (December to February), with about 15.5 inches; the driest is fall (September to November), with 11.0. That is about 35,000 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 USC00403370, 8 miBars to one scale; the longest is winter (December to February).
For days with an inch of rain or more, Dodson Branch ranks near the middle of the 296 places in Tennessee on this site (15.6 a year). By house age it falls among the newest by median year built of the 296 places in Tennessee on this site (half built by 2000). By its first fall frost it sits 23rd earliest for the first fall frost of the 296 places in Tennessee on this site (October 22).
When to clean gutters in Dodson Branch
The first fall frost comes around October 22 in a typical year here, and the last spring frost around April 20 (median dates, NOAA normals). Booking the fall cleaning after the first frost, once the trees over the roof are bare, catches the season’s drop in one visit; the spring cleaning comes after the pollen and catkins are down.
When to clean gutters explains how the trees over a roof change the schedule.
Gutter and downspout size for Dodson Branch rain
What overwhelms a gutter is a burst, not a season. In Dodson Branch the five-minute rain expected about once in ten years falls at 6.97 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 2,070, 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 Dodson Branch
Half the homes in Dodson Branch were built by 2000, 11% before 1980 (ACS 2020–2024). In a neighborhood that young, many houses still have the gutters the builder put up, and the usual call is a cleaning, a leak or guards rather than a full replacement.
95% of households own their home, and 83% of homes are detached houses, 3% townhouses. In a townhouse or HOA community, check who owns the gutters and what colors are allowed before booking.
Hiring in Tennessee
Tennessee requires a home improvement license for residential projects from $3,000 to $24,999 only in the counties that adopted the law: Bradley, Davidson, Hamilton, Haywood, Knox, Marion, Robertson, Rutherford and Shelby. From $25,000 a contractor license is required statewide. In those nine counties, ask for the home improvement license number on any job of $3,000 or more and check it.
Source: Tennessee Board for Licensing Contractors, Home Improvement. Look-up: Tennessee license verification.
Gutter work in Dodson Branch
With 15.6 days a year of an inch or more, a clogged gutter or a short downspout shows up here quickly. The line takes all of it: