Macon County, Missouri
Gutter cleaning, repair and new gutters in La Plata, MO
Rain in La Plata adds up to about 39 inches in a normal year, with about 10 days that bring an inch or more. The wettest season is summer (June to August), with about 13.4 inches; the driest is winter (December to February), with 5.0. Every 1,000 square feet of roof sheds about 24,300 gallons a year, and all of it goes through the gutters.
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NOAA station USW00014938, 6 miBars to one scale; the longest is summer (June to August).
For days with an inch of rain or more, La Plata ranks among the fewest heavy-rain days of the 361 places in Missouri on this site (9.8 a year). By house age it falls 73rd oldest by median year built of the 361 places in Missouri on this site (half built by 1963). The first frost here ranks 31st earliest for the first fall frost of the 361 places in Missouri on this site (October 18).
When to clean gutters in La Plata
The first fall frost comes around October 18 in a typical year here, and the last spring frost around April 19 (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 La Plata rain
Gutters are sized for the worst few minutes of a storm, not for the year. In La Plata the five-minute rain expected about once in ten years falls at 7.97 inches an hour (NOAA Atlas 14 Volume 8). At that rate one 2-by-3-inch downspout drains about 900 square feet of roof and one 3-by-4-inch downspout about 1,810, 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 Plata
Half the homes in La Plata were built by 1963, 83% 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.
64% of households own their home, and 70% 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 Missouri
Before hiring in La Plata, ask which Missouri license or registration the contractor holds and for a certificate of liability insurance. Hiring a gutter contractor
Gutter work in La Plata
With half the homes built by 1963, replacement gutters and the fascia behind them come up more often here than in newer suburbs. The line takes all of it: