Bolivar County, Mississippi
Gutter cleaning, repair and new gutters in Mound Bayou, MS
Mound Bayou gets about 54 inches of rain in a normal year, and on about 16 days a year an inch or more falls in a single day. The wettest season is winter (December to February), with about 15.5 inches; the driest is summer (June to August), with 10.7. That is about 33,500 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 USC00221743, 6 miBars to one scale; the longest is winter (December to February).
Counting days with an inch of rain or more, Mound Bayou sits among the fewest heavy-rain days of the 186 places in Mississippi on this site (15.9 a year). By house age it falls near the middle of the 183 places in Mississippi on this site (half built by 1978). By its first fall frost it sits near the middle of the 185 places in Mississippi on this site (November 11).
When to clean gutters in Mound Bayou
The first fall frost comes around November 11 in a typical year here, and the last spring frost around March 15 (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 Mound Bayou rain
The short, hard downpour is what a gutter is sized for. In Mound Bayou the five-minute rain expected about once in ten years falls at 8.16 inches an hour (NOAA Atlas 14 Volume 9). At that rate one 2-by-3-inch downspout drains about 880 square feet of roof and one 3-by-4-inch downspout about 1,760, 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 Mound Bayou
Half the homes in Mound Bayou were built by 1978, 59% 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.
33% of households own their home, and 68% of homes are detached houses. In a townhouse or HOA community, check who owns the gutters and what colors are allowed before booking.
Hiring in Mississippi
Ask any contractor working in Mound Bayou what Mississippi requires of them for gutter work, and to show proof of insurance. Hiring a gutter contractor
Gutter work in Mound Bayou
With half the homes built by 1978, replacement gutters and the fascia behind them come up more often here than in newer suburbs. The line takes all of it: