Suffolk County, New York
Gutter cleaning, repair and new gutters in East Hampton, NY
East Hampton gets about 50 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 fall (September to November), with about 13.3 inches; the driest is summer (June to August), with 11.0. Every 1,000 square feet of roof sheds about 30,900 gallons a year, and all of it goes through the gutters.
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NOAA station USC00300889, 5 miBars to one scale; the longest is fall (September to November).
By heavy-rain days, East Hampton falls 103rd for heavy-rain days of the 817 places in New York on this site (13.2 a year). Its housing ranks near the middle of the 810 places in New York on this site (half built by 1962). The first frost here ranks near the middle of the 817 places in New York on this site (October 24).
When to clean gutters in East Hampton
The first fall frost comes around October 24 in a typical year here, and the last spring frost around April 23 (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 East Hampton rain
Gutters are sized for the worst few minutes of a storm, not for the year. In East Hampton the five-minute rain expected about once in ten years falls at 7.48 inches an hour (NOAA Atlas 14 Volume 10). At that rate one 2-by-3-inch downspout drains about 960 square feet of roof and one 3-by-4-inch downspout about 1,930, 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 East Hampton
Half the homes in East Hampton were built by 1962, 67% 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.
74% of households own their home, and 92% of homes are detached houses, 3% townhouses. Where an HOA governs the exterior, its rules on gutter color and style apply before any order is placed.
Hiring in New York
Before hiring in East Hampton, ask which New York license or registration the contractor holds and for a certificate of liability insurance. Hiring a gutter contractor
Gutter work in East Hampton
With half the homes built by 1962, replacement gutters and the fascia behind them come up more often here than in newer suburbs. The line takes all of it: