Sebastian County, Arkansas
Gutter cleaning, repair and new gutters in Fort Smith, AR
Rain in Fort Smith adds up to about 47 inches in a normal year, with about 14 days that bring an inch or more. The wettest season is spring (March to May), with about 14.4 inches; the driest is winter (December to February), with 9.1. Off a 1,000-square-foot roof, that comes to about 29,400 gallons a year for the gutters to carry.
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NOAA station USW00013964, 1 miBars to one scale; the longest is spring (March to May).
By heavy-rain days, Fort Smith falls among the fewest heavy-rain days of the 211 places in Arkansas on this site (14.0 a year). By house age it falls 53rd oldest by median year built of the 211 places in Arkansas on this site (half built by 1976). The first frost here ranks near the middle of the 211 places in Arkansas on this site (November 6).
When to clean gutters in Fort Smith
The first fall frost comes around November 6 in a typical year here, and the last spring frost around March 25 (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 Fort Smith rain
Gutters are sized for the worst few minutes of a storm, not for the year. In Fort Smith the five-minute rain expected about once in ten years falls at 7.49 inches an hour (NOAA Atlas 14 Volume 9). At that rate one 2-by-3-inch downspout drains about 960 square feet of roof and one 3-by-4-inch downspout about 1,920, 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 Fort Smith
Half the homes in Fort Smith were built by 1976, 58% 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.
53% of households own their home, and 66% 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 Arkansas
Before hiring in Fort Smith, ask which Arkansas license or registration the contractor holds and for a certificate of liability insurance. Hiring a gutter contractor
Gutter work in Fort Smith
With half the homes built by 1976, replacement gutters and the fascia behind them come up more often here than in newer suburbs. The line takes all of it: