Holmes County, Mississippi
Gutter cleaning, repair and new gutters in Durant, MS
Rain in Durant adds up to about 57 inches in a normal year, with about 18 days that bring an inch or more. The wettest season is winter (December to February), with about 17.1 inches; the driest is summer (June to August), with 12.1. Off a 1,000-square-foot roof, that comes to about 35,600 gallons a year for the gutters to carry.
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NOAA station USC00226294, 12 miBars to one scale; the longest is winter (December to February).
By heavy-rain days, Durant falls among the fewest heavy-rain days of the 186 places in Mississippi on this site (18.0 a year). Its housing ranks 15th oldest by median year built of the 183 places in Mississippi on this site (half built by 1969). By first frost it falls 11th earliest for the first fall frost of the 185 places in Mississippi on this site (November 1).
When to clean gutters in Durant
The first fall frost comes around November 1 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 Durant rain
The short, hard downpour is what a gutter is sized for. In Durant the five-minute rain expected about once in ten years falls at 8.78 inches an hour (NOAA Atlas 14 Volume 9). At that rate one 2-by-3-inch downspout drains about 820 square feet of roof and one 3-by-4-inch downspout about 1,640, 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 Durant
Half the homes in Durant were built by 1969, 68% before 1980 (ACS 2020–2024). Houses that age have often had their gutters replaced once already; if not, the original runs and the boards behind them deserve a close look. 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.
56% of households own their home, and 75% of homes are detached houses, 1% townhouses. If an association maintains the exterior, the gutters may be its job rather than yours; check before calling.
Hiring in Mississippi
Licensing for gutter work differs from state to state; ask a contractor in Durant which license or registration they hold in Mississippi, and for proof of liability insurance. Hiring a gutter contractor
Gutter work in Durant
With half the homes built by 1969, replacement gutters and the fascia behind them come up more often here than in newer suburbs. The line takes all of it: