Lee County, Arkansas
Gutter cleaning, repair and new gutters in Marianna, AR
Marianna gets about 52 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 16.2 inches; the driest is summer (June to August), with 10.8. Off a 1,000-square-foot roof, that comes to about 32,300 gallons a year for the gutters to carry.
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NOAA station USC00034638, 2 miBars to one scale; the longest is spring (March to May).
By heavy-rain days, Marianna falls near the middle of the 211 places in Arkansas on this site (16.2 a year). By the age of its homes it sits 3rd oldest by median year built of the 211 places in Arkansas on this site (half built by 1967). The first frost here ranks among the latest for the first fall frost of the 211 places in Arkansas on this site (November 11).
When to clean gutters in Marianna
The first fall frost comes around November 11 in a typical year here, and the last spring frost around March 18 (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 Marianna rain
Gutters are sized for the worst few minutes of a storm, not for the year. In Marianna the five-minute rain expected about once in ten years falls at 8.14 inches an hour (NOAA Atlas 14 Volume 9). At that rate one 2-by-3-inch downspout drains about 880 square feet of roof and one 3-by-4-inch downspout about 1,770, 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 Marianna
Half the homes in Marianna were built by 1967, 75% 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.
38% of households own their home, and 62% of homes are detached houses, 2% townhouses. Where an HOA governs the exterior, its rules on gutter color and style apply before any order is placed.
Hiring in Arkansas
Before hiring in Marianna, ask which Arkansas license or registration the contractor holds and for a certificate of liability insurance. Hiring a gutter contractor
Gutter work in Marianna
With half the homes built by 1967, replacement gutters and the fascia behind them come up more often here than in newer suburbs. The line takes all of it: