Harrison County, Mississippi
Gutter cleaning, repair and new gutters in Long Beach, MS
Long Beach gets about 68 inches of rain in a normal year, and on about 22 days a year an inch or more falls in a single day. The wettest season is summer (June to August), with about 22.4 inches; the driest is fall (September to November), with 13.7. Every 1,000 square feet of roof sheds about 42,300 gallons a year, and all of it goes through the gutters.
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NOAA station USC00223671, 3 miBars to one scale; the longest is summer (June to August).
For days with an inch of rain or more, Long Beach ranks 6th for heavy-rain days of the 186 places in Mississippi on this site (22.3 a year). By the age of its homes it sits near the middle of the 183 places in Mississippi on this site (half built by 1984). By its first fall frost it sits among the latest for the first fall frost of the 185 places in Mississippi on this site (December 14).
When to clean gutters in Long Beach
The first fall frost comes around December 14 in a typical year here, and the last spring frost around February 18 (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 Long Beach rain
What overwhelms a gutter is a burst, not a season. In Long Beach the five-minute rain expected about once in ten years falls at 11.27 inches an hour (NOAA Atlas 14 Volume 9). At that rate one 2-by-3-inch downspout drains about 640 square feet of roof and one 3-by-4-inch downspout about 1,280, 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 Long Beach
Half the homes in Long Beach were built by 1984, 45% 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.
67% of households own their home, and 74% of homes are detached houses, 1% townhouses. In a townhouse or HOA community, check who owns the gutters and what colors are allowed before booking.
Hiring in Mississippi
Ask any contractor working in Long Beach what Mississippi requires of them for gutter work, and to show proof of insurance. Hiring a gutter contractor
Gutter work in Long Beach
With half the homes built by 1984, replacement gutters and the fascia behind them come up more often here than in newer suburbs. The line takes all of it: