Gregg County, Texas
Gutter cleaning, repair and new gutters in Lake Cherokee, TX
A normal year in Lake Cherokee brings about 50 inches of rain; on roughly 18 of its days, an inch or more comes down at once. The wettest season is spring (March to May), with about 13.7 inches; the driest is summer (June to August), with 10.9. Off a 1,000-square-foot roof, that comes to about 31,200 gallons a year for the gutters to carry.
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NOAA station USW00003951, 1 miBars to one scale; the longest is spring (March to May).
By heavy-rain days, Lake Cherokee falls 78th for heavy-rain days of the 959 places in Texas on this site (17.8 a year). Its housing ranks near the middle of the 959 places in Texas on this site (half built by 1994). The first frost here ranks near the middle of the 821 places in Texas on this site (November 17).
When to clean gutters in Lake Cherokee
The first fall frost comes around November 17 in a typical year here, and the last spring frost around March 11 (median dates, NOAA normals). A fall cleaning set for the weeks after that frost, when the branches over the house are bare, gets the year’s leaves in one trip; a spring visit follows once the pollen and catkins have come down.
When to clean gutters explains how the trees over a roof change the schedule.
Gutter and downspout size for Lake Cherokee rain
Gutters are sized for the worst few minutes of a storm, not for the year. In Lake Cherokee the five-minute rain expected about once in ten years falls at 8.50 inches an hour (NOAA Atlas 14 Volume 11). At that rate one 2-by-3-inch downspout drains about 850 square feet of roof and one 3-by-4-inch downspout about 1,690, 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 Cherokee
Half the homes in Lake Cherokee were built by 1994, 32% 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.
83% of households own their home, and 76% of homes are detached houses, 4% townhouses. Where an HOA governs the exterior, its rules on gutter color and style apply before any order is placed.
Hiring in Texas
Before hiring in Lake Cherokee, ask which Texas license or registration the contractor holds and for a certificate of liability insurance. Hiring a gutter contractor
Gutter work in Lake Cherokee
With 17.8 days a year of an inch or more, a clogged gutter or a short downspout shows up here quickly. The line takes all of it: