Calcasieu Parish, Louisiana
Gutter cleaning, repair and new gutters in Moss Bluff, LA
Rain in Moss Bluff adds up to about 68 inches in a normal year, with about 21 days that bring an inch or more. The wettest season is summer (June to August), with about 19.9 inches; the driest is spring (March to May), with 14.8. That is about 42,100 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 USC00166431, 1 miBars to one scale; the longest is summer (June to August).
For days with an inch of rain or more, Moss Bluff ranks 37th for heavy-rain days of the 269 places in Louisiana on this site (21.4 a year). By house age it falls among the newest by median year built of the 269 places in Louisiana on this site (half built by 1996). By its first fall frost it sits near the middle of the 222 places in Louisiana on this site (November 25).
When to clean gutters in Moss Bluff
The first fall frost comes around November 25 in a typical year here, and the last spring frost around March 2 (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 Moss Bluff rain
What overwhelms a gutter is a burst, not a season. In Moss Bluff the five-minute rain expected about once in ten years falls at 10.66 inches an hour (NOAA Atlas 14 Volume 9). At that rate one 2-by-3-inch downspout drains about 680 square feet of roof and one 3-by-4-inch downspout about 1,350, 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 Moss Bluff
Half the homes in Moss Bluff were built by 1996, 24% before 1980 (ACS 2020–2024). In a neighborhood that young, many houses still have the gutters the builder put up, and the usual call is a cleaning, a leak or guards rather than a full replacement.
80% of households own their home, and 61% of homes are detached houses, 1% townhouses. In a townhouse or HOA community, check who owns the gutters and what colors are allowed before booking.
Hiring in Louisiana
Ask any contractor working in Moss Bluff what Louisiana requires of them for gutter work, and to show proof of insurance. Hiring a gutter contractor
Gutter work in Moss Bluff
With 21.4 days a year of an inch or more, a clogged gutter or a short downspout shows up here quickly. The line takes all of it: