Jefferson County, Kentucky
Gutter cleaning, repair and new gutters in Louisville, KY
Louisville gets about 53 inches of rain in a normal year, and on about 16 days a year an inch or more falls in a single day. The wettest season is spring (March to May), with about 16.3 inches; the driest is fall (September to November), with 11.9. That is about 32,900 gallons a year off each 1,000 square feet of roof, every drop of it through a gutter and a downspout.
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NOAA station USC00154958, 3 miBars to one scale; the longest is spring (March to May).
Counting days with an inch of rain or more, Louisville sits 16th for heavy-rain days of the 238 places in Kentucky on this site (15.6 a year). By house age it falls 57th oldest by median year built of the 238 places in Kentucky on this site (half built by 1970). By its first fall frost it sits among the latest for the first fall frost of the 238 places in Kentucky on this site (November 1).
When to clean gutters in Louisville
The first fall frost comes around November 1 in a typical year here, and the last spring frost around April 6 (median dates, NOAA normals). Booking the fall cleaning after the first frost, once the trees over the roof are bare, catches the season’s drop in one visit; the spring cleaning comes after the pollen and catkins are down.
When to clean gutters explains how the trees over a roof change the schedule.
Gutter and downspout size for Louisville rain
The short, hard downpour is what a gutter is sized for. In Louisville the five-minute rain expected about once in ten years falls at 6.85 inches an hour (NOAA Atlas 14 Volume 2). At that rate one 2-by-3-inch downspout drains about 1,050 square feet of roof and one 3-by-4-inch downspout about 2,100, 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 Louisville
Half the homes in Louisville were built by 1970, 62% before 1980 (ACS 2020–2024). Houses that age have often had their gutters replaced once already; if not, the original runs and the boards behind them deserve a close look. 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 63% of homes are detached houses, 4% townhouses. In a townhouse or HOA community, check who owns the gutters and what colors are allowed before booking.
Hiring in Kentucky
Ask any contractor working in Louisville what Kentucky requires of them for gutter work, and to show proof of insurance. Hiring a gutter contractor
Gutter work in Louisville
With half the homes built by 1970, replacement gutters and the fascia behind them come up more often here than in newer suburbs. The line takes all of it: