Crittenden County, Arkansas
Gutter cleaning, repair and new gutters in Marion, AR
Marion gets about 50 inches of rain in a normal year, and on about 14 days a year an inch or more falls in a single day. The wettest season is spring (March to May), with about 15.2 inches; the driest is summer (June to August), with 10.6. Every 1,000 square feet of roof sheds about 31,200 gallons a year, and all of it goes through the gutters.
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NOAA station USW00053959, 5 miBars to one scale; the longest is spring (March to May).
For days with an inch of rain or more, Marion ranks among the fewest heavy-rain days of the 211 places in Arkansas on this site (13.9 a year). By house age it falls among the newest by median year built of the 211 places in Arkansas on this site (half built by 1999). 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 Marion
The first fall frost comes around November 11 in a typical year here, and the last spring frost around March 16 (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 Marion rain
Gutters are sized for the worst few minutes of a storm, not for the year. In Marion the five-minute rain expected about once in ten years falls at 8.58 inches an hour (NOAA Atlas 14 Volume 9). At that rate one 2-by-3-inch downspout drains about 840 square feet of roof and one 3-by-4-inch downspout about 1,680, 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 Marion
Half the homes in Marion were built by 1999, 15% before 1980 (ACS 2020–2024). With homes this new, the gutters are usually the builder’s originals; keeping them clear matters more than replacing them.
70% of households own their home, and 78% of homes are detached houses, 1% 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 Marion, ask which Arkansas license or registration the contractor holds and for a certificate of liability insurance. Hiring a gutter contractor
Gutter work in Marion
In a neighborhood with half its homes built by 1999, the usual calls are cleaning, guards and small repairs. The line takes all of it: