Lafayette Parish, Louisiana
Gutter cleaning, repair and new gutters in Lafayette, LA
A normal year in Lafayette brings about 65 inches of rain; on roughly 21 of its days, an inch or more comes down at once. The wettest season is summer (June to August), with about 19.9 inches; the driest is spring (March to May), with 14.1. Every 1,000 square feet of roof sheds about 40,100 gallons a year, and all of it goes through the gutters.
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NOAA station USC00165021, 2 miBars to one scale; the longest is summer (June to August).
For days with an inch of rain or more, Lafayette ranks 68th for heavy-rain days of the 269 places in Louisiana on this site (20.7 a year). By the age of its homes it sits near the middle of the 269 places in Louisiana on this site (half built by 1981). The first frost here ranks near the middle of the 222 places in Louisiana on this site (November 28).
When to clean gutters in Lafayette
The first fall frost comes around November 28 in a typical year here, and the last spring frost around February 26 (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 Lafayette rain
What overwhelms a gutter is a burst, not a season. In Lafayette the five-minute rain expected about once in ten years falls at 10.08 inches an hour (NOAA Atlas 14 Volume 9). At that rate one 2-by-3-inch downspout drains about 710 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 Lafayette
Half the homes in Lafayette were built by 1981, 47% 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.
55% of households own their home, and 64% of homes are detached houses, 3% townhouses. Where an HOA governs the exterior, its rules on gutter color and style apply before any order is placed.
Hiring in Louisiana
Ask any contractor working in Lafayette what Louisiana requires of them for gutter work, and to show proof of insurance. Hiring a gutter contractor
Gutter work in Lafayette
With half the homes built by 1981, replacement gutters and the fascia behind them come up more often here than in newer suburbs. The line takes all of it: