Covington County, Alabama
Gutter cleaning, repair and new gutters in Florala, AL
A normal year in Florala brings about 64 inches of rain; on roughly 18 of its days, an inch or more comes down at once. The wettest season is summer (June to August), with about 20.3 inches; the driest is fall (September to November), with 13.4. Off a 1,000-square-foot roof, that comes to about 39,400 gallons a year for the gutters to carry.
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NOAA station USW00013884, 21 miBars to one scale; the longest is summer (June to August).
By heavy-rain days, Florala falls near the middle of the 323 places in Alabama on this site (18.4 a year). By the age of its homes it sits 37th oldest by median year built of the 323 places in Alabama on this site (half built by 1970). The first frost here ranks among the latest for the first fall frost of the 320 places in Alabama on this site (November 26).
When to clean gutters in Florala
The first fall frost comes around November 26 in a typical year here, and the last spring frost around March 4 (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 Florala rain
Gutters are sized for the worst few minutes of a storm, not for the year. In Florala the five-minute rain expected about once in ten years falls at 10.25 inches an hour (NOAA Atlas 14 Volume 9). At that rate one 2-by-3-inch downspout drains about 700 square feet of roof and one 3-by-4-inch downspout about 1,400, 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 Florala
Half the homes in Florala were built by 1970, 63% 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 73% of homes are detached houses. Where an HOA governs the exterior, its rules on gutter color and style apply before any order is placed.
Hiring in Alabama
Before hiring in Florala, ask which Alabama license or registration the contractor holds and for a certificate of liability insurance. Hiring a gutter contractor
Gutter work in Florala
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: