Benton County, Arkansas
Gutter cleaning, repair and new gutters in Gentry, AR
A normal year in Gentry brings about 45 inches of rain; on roughly 14 of its days, an inch or more comes down at once. The wettest season is spring (March to May), with about 14.4 inches; the driest is winter (December to February), with 7.6. Every 1,000 square feet of roof sheds about 28,200 gallons a year, and all of it goes through the gutters.
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NOAA station USW00053922, 11 miBars to one scale; the longest is spring (March to May).
For days with an inch of rain or more, Gentry ranks among the fewest heavy-rain days of the 211 places in Arkansas on this site (13.6 a year). By house age it falls among the newest by median year built of the 211 places in Arkansas on this site (half built by 1994). The first frost here ranks 22nd earliest for the first fall frost of the 211 places in Arkansas on this site (October 28).
When to clean gutters in Gentry
The first fall frost comes around October 28 in a typical year here, and the last spring frost around April 8 (median dates, NOAA normals). Plan the fall visit for after the frost, when the trees over the roof have finished dropping, and the spring visit for after the pollen and catkins.
When to clean gutters explains how the trees over a roof change the schedule.
Gutter and downspout size for Gentry rain
What overwhelms a gutter is a burst, not a season. In Gentry the five-minute rain expected about once in ten years falls at 7.87 inches an hour (NOAA Atlas 14 Volume 9). At that rate one 2-by-3-inch downspout drains about 910 square feet of roof and one 3-by-4-inch downspout about 1,830, 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 Gentry
Half the homes in Gentry were built by 1994, 35% before 1980 (ACS 2020–2024). In a neighborhood that age, many houses are on their second set of gutters or due for one, and the fascia board behind them is worth checking at the same visit.
68% of households own their home, and 86% of homes are detached houses, 5% townhouses. Where an HOA governs the exterior, its rules on gutter color and style apply before any order is placed.
Hiring in Arkansas
Ask any contractor working in Gentry what Arkansas requires of them for gutter work, and to show proof of insurance. Hiring a gutter contractor
Gutter work in Gentry
In a neighborhood with half its homes built by 1994, the usual calls are cleaning, guards and small repairs. The line takes all of it: