Martin County, Texas
Gutter cleaning, repair and new gutters in Midland, TX
Midland gets about 14 inches of rain in a normal year, and on about 4 days a year an inch or more falls in a single day. The wettest season is summer (June to August), with about 4.6 inches; the driest is winter (December to February), with 1.8. That is about 8,400 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 USC00415891, 5 miBars to one scale; the longest is summer (June to August).
Counting days with an inch of rain or more, Midland sits among the fewest heavy-rain days of the 959 places in Texas on this site (4.2 a year). By house age it falls near the middle of the 959 places in Texas on this site (half built by 1986). By its first fall frost it sits 117th earliest for the first fall frost of the 821 places in Texas on this site (November 9).
When to clean gutters in Midland
The first fall frost comes around November 9 in a typical year here, and the last spring frost around March 26 (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 Midland rain
The short, hard downpour is what a gutter is sized for. In Midland the five-minute rain expected about once in ten years falls at 7.45 inches an hour (NOAA Atlas 14 Volume 11). At that rate one 2-by-3-inch downspout drains about 970 square feet of roof and one 3-by-4-inch downspout about 1,930, 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.
Midland is dry by national standards, about 14 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 7.45 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 Midland
Half the homes in Midland were built by 1986, 39% 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.
65% of households own their home, and 65% 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 Midland what Texas requires of them for gutter work, and to show proof of insurance. Hiring a gutter contractor
Gutter work in Midland
In a neighborhood with half its homes built by 1986, the usual calls are cleaning, guards and small repairs. The line takes all of it: