St. Helena Parish, Louisiana
Gutter cleaning, repair and new gutters in Greensburg, LA
Greensburg gets about 63 inches of rain in a normal year, and on about 21 days a year an inch or more falls in a single day. The wettest season is summer (June to August), with about 17.1 inches; the driest is fall (September to November), with 13.5. That is about 39,200 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 USC00165430, 9 miBars to one scale; the longest is summer (June to August).
For days with an inch of rain or more, Greensburg ranks near the middle of the 269 places in Louisiana on this site (20.6 a year). By the age of its homes it sits near the middle of the 269 places in Louisiana on this site (half built by 1974). By its first fall frost it sits 45th earliest for the first fall frost of the 222 places in Louisiana on this site (November 18).
When to clean gutters in Greensburg
The first fall frost comes around November 18 in a typical year here, and the last spring frost around March 7 (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 Greensburg rain
What overwhelms a gutter is a burst, not a season. In Greensburg the five-minute rain expected about once in ten years falls at 9.97 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 1,440, 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 Greensburg
Half the homes in Greensburg were built by 1974, 67% 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. 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.
43% of households own their home, and 46% 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 Greensburg what Louisiana requires of them for gutter work, and to show proof of insurance. Hiring a gutter contractor
Gutter work in Greensburg
With half the homes built by 1974, replacement gutters and the fascia behind them come up more often here than in newer suburbs. The line takes all of it: