Alachua County, Florida
Gutter cleaning, repair and new gutters in High Springs, FL
Rain in High Springs adds up to about 52 inches in a normal year, with about 17 days that bring an inch or more. The wettest season is summer (June to August), with about 21.0 inches; the driest is winter (December to February), with 9.5. That is about 32,000 gallons a year off each 1,000 square feet of roof, every drop of it through a gutter and a downspout.
Call (866) 228-6229 free call to a gutter contractor serving High SpringsHigh Springs: rain and roofs
NOAA station USC00083956, 2 miBars to one scale; the longest is summer (June to August).
Counting days with an inch of rain or more, High Springs sits near the middle of the 758 places in Florida on this site (17.1 a year). Its housing ranks among the newest by median year built of the 761 places in Florida on this site (half built by 1999). By its first fall frost it sits 15th earliest for the first fall frost of the 131 places in Florida on this site (November 22).
When to clean gutters in High Springs
The first fall frost comes around November 22 in a typical year here, and the last spring frost around March 13 (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 High Springs rain
What overwhelms a gutter is a burst, not a season. In High Springs the five-minute rain expected about once in ten years falls at 9.64 inches an hour (NOAA Atlas 14 Volume 9). At that rate one 2-by-3-inch downspout drains about 750 square feet of roof and one 3-by-4-inch downspout about 1,490, 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 High Springs
Half the homes in High Springs were built by 1999, 24% 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.
81% of households own their home, and 77% of homes are detached houses, 2% townhouses. In a townhouse or HOA community, check who owns the gutters and what colors are allowed before booking.
Hiring in Florida
Ask any contractor working in High Springs what Florida requires of them for gutter work, and to show proof of insurance. Hiring a gutter contractor
Gutter work in High Springs
With 17.1 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: