Ascension Parish, Louisiana
Gutter cleaning, repair and new gutters in Gonzales, LA
Rain in Gonzales adds up to about 66 inches in a normal year, with about 22 days that bring an inch or more. The wettest season is summer (June to August), with about 19.9 inches; the driest is fall (September to November), with 14.4. That is about 40,700 gallons a year off each 1,000 square feet of roof, every drop of it through a gutter and a downspout.
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NOAA station USC00163695, 1 miBars to one scale; the longest is summer (June to August).
Counting days with an inch of rain or more, Gonzales sits 31st for heavy-rain days of the 269 places in Louisiana on this site (21.6 a year). By house age it falls among the newest by median year built of the 269 places in Louisiana on this site (half built by 1999). By its first fall frost it sits near the middle of the 222 places in Louisiana on this site (December 5).
When to clean gutters in Gonzales
The first fall frost comes around December 5 in a typical year here, and the last spring frost around February 21 (median dates, NOAA normals). Booking the fall cleaning after the first frost, once the trees over the roof are bare, catches the season’s drop in one visit; the spring cleaning comes after the pollen and catkins are down.
When to clean gutters explains how the trees over a roof change the schedule.
Gutter and downspout size for Gonzales rain
What overwhelms a gutter is a burst, not a season. In Gonzales the five-minute rain expected about once in ten years falls at 9.96 inches an hour (NOAA Atlas 14 Volume 9). At that rate one 2-by-3-inch downspout drains about 720 square feet of roof and one 3-by-4-inch downspout about 1,450, 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 Gonzales
Half the homes in Gonzales were built by 1999, 32% before 1980 (ACS 2020–2024). In a neighborhood that young, many houses still have the gutters the builder put up, and the usual call is a cleaning, a leak or guards rather than a full replacement.
69% of households own their home, and 67% of homes are detached houses. In a townhouse or HOA community, check who owns the gutters and what colors are allowed before booking.
Hiring in Louisiana
Ask any contractor working in Gonzales what Louisiana requires of them for gutter work, and to show proof of insurance. Hiring a gutter contractor
Gutter work in Gonzales
With 21.6 days a year of an inch or more, a clogged gutter or a short downspout shows up here quickly. The line takes all of it: