Harper County, Kansas
Gutter cleaning, repair and new gutters in Harper, KS
Harper gets about 33 inches of rain in a normal year, and on about 10 days a year an inch or more falls in a single day. The wettest season is summer (June to August), with about 11.9 inches; the driest is winter (December to February), with 3.6. Every 1,000 square feet of roof sheds about 20,500 gallons a year, and all of it goes through the gutters.
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NOAA station USW00013980, 9 miBars to one scale; the longest is summer (June to August).
By heavy-rain days, Harper falls near the middle of the 162 places in Kansas on this site (10.1 a year). Its housing ranks near the middle of the 162 places in Kansas on this site (half built by 1961). The first frost here ranks among the latest for the first fall frost of the 162 places in Kansas on this site (October 30).
When to clean gutters in Harper
The first fall frost comes around October 30 in a typical year here, and the last spring frost around April 9 (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 Harper rain
Gutters are sized for the worst few minutes of a storm, not for the year. In Harper the five-minute rain expected about once in ten years falls at 7.82 inches an hour (NOAA Atlas 14 Volume 8). At that rate one 2-by-3-inch downspout drains about 920 square feet of roof and one 3-by-4-inch downspout about 1,840, 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 Harper
Half the homes in Harper were built by 1961, 73% 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.
65% of households own their home, and 78% of homes are detached houses, 1% townhouses. Where an HOA governs the exterior, its rules on gutter color and style apply before any order is placed.
Hiring in Kansas
Before hiring in Harper, ask which Kansas license or registration the contractor holds and for a certificate of liability insurance. Hiring a gutter contractor
Gutter work in Harper
With half the homes built by 1961, replacement gutters and the fascia behind them come up more often here than in newer suburbs. The line takes all of it: