Calcasieu Parish, Louisiana
Gutter cleaning, repair and new gutters in Lake Charles, LA
Rain in Lake Charles adds up to about 65 inches in a normal year, with about 21 days that bring an inch or more. The wettest season is summer (June to August), with about 20.4 inches; the driest is spring (March to May), with 14.1. Every 1,000 square feet of roof sheds about 40,400 gallons a year, and all of it goes through the gutters.
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NOAA station USC00165076, 3 miBars to one scale; the longest is summer (June to August).
For days with an inch of rain or more, Lake Charles ranks 53rd for heavy-rain days of the 269 places in Louisiana on this site (21.0 a year). Its housing ranks near the middle of the 269 places in Louisiana on this site (half built by 1979). The first frost here ranks among the latest for the first fall frost of the 222 places in Louisiana on this site (December 7).
When to clean gutters in Lake Charles
The first fall frost comes around December 7 in a typical year here, and the last spring frost around February 14 (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 Lake Charles rain
Gutters are sized for the worst few minutes of a storm, not for the year. In Lake Charles the five-minute rain expected about once in ten years falls at 10.73 inches an hour (NOAA Atlas 14 Volume 9). At that rate one 2-by-3-inch downspout drains about 670 square feet of roof and one 3-by-4-inch downspout about 1,340, 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 Lake Charles
Half the homes in Lake Charles were built by 1979, 52% 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.
61% of households own their home, and 68% 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
Before hiring in Lake Charles, ask which Louisiana license or registration the contractor holds and for a certificate of liability insurance. Hiring a gutter contractor
Gutter work in Lake Charles
With half the homes built by 1979, replacement gutters and the fascia behind them come up more often here than in newer suburbs. The line takes all of it: