Tangipahoa Parish, Louisiana
Gutter cleaning, repair and new gutters in Kentwood, LA
Kentwood 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 17.7 inches; the driest is fall (September to November), with 12.5. Every 1,000 square feet of roof sheds about 39,000 gallons a year, and all of it goes through the gutters.
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NOAA station USC00164859, 1 miBars to one scale; the longest is summer (June to August).
For days with an inch of rain or more, Kentwood ranks 53rd for heavy-rain days of the 269 places in Louisiana on this site (21.0 a year). By house age it falls 34th oldest by median year built of the 269 places in Louisiana on this site (half built by 1970). 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 Kentwood
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 Kentwood rain
What overwhelms a gutter is a burst, not a season. In Kentwood the five-minute rain expected about once in ten years falls at 10.06 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 1,430, 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 Kentwood
Half the homes in Kentwood were built by 1970, 74% 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.
54% of households own their home, and 76% of homes are detached houses, 1% townhouses. 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 Kentwood what Louisiana requires of them for gutter work, and to show proof of insurance. Hiring a gutter contractor
Gutter work in Kentwood
With half the homes built by 1970, replacement gutters and the fascia behind them come up more often here than in newer suburbs. The line takes all of it: