Upton County, Texas
Gutter cleaning, repair and new gutters in McCamey, TX
Rain in McCamey adds up to about 15 inches in a normal year, with about 3 days that bring an inch or more. The wettest season is summer (June to August), with about 5.7 inches; the driest is winter (December to February), with 1.9. That is about 9,200 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 USC00415707, 0 miBars to one scale; the longest is summer (June to August).
Counting days with an inch of rain or more, McCamey sits among the fewest heavy-rain days of the 959 places in Texas on this site (3.0 a year). Its housing ranks 37th oldest by median year built of the 959 places in Texas on this site (half built by 1960). By its first fall frost it sits near the middle of the 821 places in Texas on this site (November 16).
When to clean gutters in McCamey
The first fall frost comes around November 16 in a typical year here, and the last spring frost around March 12 (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 McCamey rain
The short, hard downpour is what a gutter is sized for. In McCamey the five-minute rain expected about once in ten years falls at 7.36 inches an hour (NOAA Atlas 14 Volume 11). At that rate one 2-by-3-inch downspout drains about 980 square feet of roof and one 3-by-4-inch downspout about 1,960, 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.
McCamey is dry by national standards, about 15 inches in a normal year, but much of the rain that does come can arrive in short, hard storms: the five-minute downpour expected once in ten years still runs at 7.36 inches an hour. Where gutters are used here, the job is moving that burst away from the foundation, and keeping a dry season’s dust and debris from blocking the first storm.
The houses in McCamey
Half the homes in McCamey were built by 1960, 64% 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.
73% of households own their home, and 79% 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 Texas
Ask any contractor working in McCamey what Texas requires of them for gutter work, and to show proof of insurance. Hiring a gutter contractor
Gutter work in McCamey
With half the homes built by 1960, replacement gutters and the fascia behind them come up more often here than in newer suburbs. The line takes all of it: