Kay County, Oklahoma
Gutter cleaning, repair and new gutters in Newkirk, OK
Rain in Newkirk adds up to about 39 inches in a normal year, with about 12 days that bring an inch or more. The wettest season is summer (June to August), with about 13.9 inches; the driest is winter (December to February), with 4.2. Off a 1,000-square-foot roof, that comes to about 24,400 gallons a year for the gutters to carry.
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NOAA station USC00346278, 5 miBars to one scale; the longest is summer (June to August).
By heavy-rain days, Newkirk falls near the middle of the 227 places in Oklahoma on this site (11.7 a year). By house age it falls 42nd oldest by median year built of the 227 places in Oklahoma on this site (half built by 1967). By first frost it falls 12th earliest for the first fall frost of the 226 places in Oklahoma on this site (October 26).
When to clean gutters in Newkirk
The first fall frost comes around October 26 in a typical year here, and the last spring frost around April 16 (median dates, NOAA normals). A fall cleaning set for the weeks after that frost, when the branches over the house are bare, gets the year’s leaves in one trip; a spring visit follows once the pollen and catkins have come down.
When to clean gutters explains how the trees over a roof change the schedule.
Gutter and downspout size for Newkirk rain
Gutters are sized for the worst few minutes of a storm, not for the year. In Newkirk the five-minute rain expected about once in ten years falls at 8.38 inches an hour (NOAA Atlas 14 Volume 8). At that rate one 2-by-3-inch downspout drains about 860 square feet of roof and one 3-by-4-inch downspout about 1,720, 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 Newkirk
Half the homes in Newkirk were built by 1967, 73% 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.
71% of households own their home, and 73% of homes are detached houses, 1% townhouses. If an association maintains the exterior, the gutters may be its job rather than yours; check before calling.
Hiring in Oklahoma
Before hiring in Newkirk, ask which Oklahoma license or registration the contractor holds and for a certificate of liability insurance. Hiring a gutter contractor
Gutter work in Newkirk
With half the homes built by 1967, replacement gutters and the fascia behind them come up more often here than in newer suburbs. The line takes all of it: