Lauderdale County, Alabama
Gutter cleaning, repair and new gutters in Florence, AL
Florence gets about 54 inches of rain in a normal year, and on about 16 days a year an inch or more falls in a single day. The wettest season is winter (December to February), with about 15.0 inches; the driest is fall (September to November), with 11.2. Off a 1,000-square-foot roof, that comes to about 33,600 gallons a year for the gutters to carry.
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NOAA station USW00013896, 7 miBars to one scale; the longest is winter (December to February).
By heavy-rain days, Florence falls among the fewest heavy-rain days of the 323 places in Alabama on this site (15.7 a year). By house age it falls 51st oldest by median year built of the 323 places in Alabama on this site (half built by 1972). By first frost it falls 68th earliest for the first fall frost of the 320 places in Alabama on this site (November 3).
When to clean gutters in Florence
The first fall frost comes around November 3 in a typical year here, and the last spring frost around March 27 (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 Florence rain
Gutters are sized for the worst few minutes of a storm, not for the year. In Florence the five-minute rain expected about once in ten years falls at 8.20 inches an hour (NOAA Atlas 14 Volume 9). At that rate one 2-by-3-inch downspout drains about 880 square feet of roof and one 3-by-4-inch downspout about 1,760, 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 Florence
Half the homes in Florence were built by 1972, 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.
50% of households own their home, and 62% 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 Alabama
Before hiring in Florence, ask which Alabama license or registration the contractor holds and for a certificate of liability insurance. Hiring a gutter contractor
Gutter work in Florence
With half the homes built by 1972, replacement gutters and the fascia behind them come up more often here than in newer suburbs. The line takes all of it: