Cameron County, Texas
Gutter cleaning, repair and new gutters in La Paloma, TX
La Paloma gets about 28 inches of rain in a normal year, and on about 7 days a year an inch or more falls in a single day. The wettest season is fall (September to November), with about 10.8 inches; the driest is winter (December to February), with 4.0. That is about 17,500 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 USC00413943, 10 miBars to one scale; the longest is fall (September to November).
For days with an inch of rain or more, La Paloma ranks among the fewest heavy-rain days of the 959 places in Texas on this site (7.4 a year). By house age it falls among the newest by median year built of the 959 places in Texas on this site (half built by 2003).
When to clean gutters in La Paloma
Frost is rare in La Paloma, and in many years there is none (NOAA normals). With no hard freeze to strip the trees, the fall cleaning follows the leaf drop itself; book it once the trees over the roof are bare, and plan a second visit in spring.
When to clean gutters explains how the trees over a roof change the schedule.
Gutter and downspout size for La Paloma rain
What overwhelms a gutter is a burst, not a season. In La Paloma the five-minute rain expected about once in ten years falls at 9.86 inches an hour (NOAA Atlas 14 Volume 11). At that rate one 2-by-3-inch downspout drains about 730 square feet of roof and one 3-by-4-inch downspout about 1,460, 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 La Paloma
Half the homes in La Paloma were built by 2003, 13% 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 66% of homes are detached houses, 3% townhouses. In a townhouse or HOA community, check who owns the gutters and what colors are allowed before booking.
Hiring in Texas
Ask any contractor working in La Paloma what Texas requires of them for gutter work, and to show proof of insurance. Hiring a gutter contractor
Gutter work in La Paloma
In a neighborhood with half its homes built by 2003, the usual calls are cleaning, guards and small repairs. The line takes all of it: