Miami-Dade County, Florida
Gutter cleaning, repair and new gutters in Miami Gardens, FL
Miami Gardens gets about 68 inches of rain in a normal year, and on about 21 days a year an inch or more falls in a single day. The wettest season is summer (June to August), with about 26.6 inches; the driest is winter (December to February), with 7.7. Off a 1,000-square-foot roof, that comes to about 42,400 gallons a year for the gutters to carry.
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NOAA station USC00086315, 2 miBars to one scale; the longest is summer (June to August).
By heavy-rain days, Miami Gardens falls 19th for heavy-rain days of the 758 places in Florida on this site (21.4 a year). By house age it falls 56th oldest by median year built of the 761 places in Florida on this site (half built by 1969).
Gutter and downspout size for Miami Gardens rain
Gutters are sized for the worst few minutes of a storm, not for the year. In Miami Gardens the five-minute rain expected about once in ten years falls at 10.90 inches an hour (NOAA Atlas 14 Volume 9). At that rate one 2-by-3-inch downspout drains about 660 square feet of roof and one 3-by-4-inch downspout about 1,320, 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 Miami Gardens
Half the homes in Miami Gardens were built by 1969, 72% 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.
66% of households own their home, and 69% of homes are detached houses, 6% townhouses. If an association maintains the exterior, the gutters may be its job rather than yours; check before calling.
Hiring in Florida
Before hiring in Miami Gardens, ask which Florida license or registration the contractor holds and for a certificate of liability insurance. Hiring a gutter contractor
Gutter work in Miami Gardens
With half the homes built by 1969, replacement gutters and the fascia behind them come up more often here than in newer suburbs. The line takes all of it: