Cocke County, Tennessee
Gutter cleaning, repair and new gutters in Newport, TN
A normal year in Newport brings about 47 inches of rain; on roughly 10 of its days, an inch or more comes down at once. The wettest season is summer (June to August), with about 13.0 inches; the driest is fall (September to November), with 9.0. That is about 28,900 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 USC00406534, 2 miBars to one scale; the longest is summer (June to August).
Counting days with an inch of rain or more, Newport sits among the fewest heavy-rain days of the 296 places in Tennessee on this site (10.2 a year). By the age of its homes it sits 56th oldest by median year built of the 296 places in Tennessee on this site (half built by 1973). By its first fall frost it sits near the middle of the 296 places in Tennessee on this site (October 29).
When to clean gutters in Newport
The first fall frost comes around October 29 in a typical year here, and the last spring frost around April 7 (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 Newport rain
What overwhelms a gutter is a burst, not a season. In Newport the five-minute rain expected about once in ten years falls at 6.06 inches an hour (NOAA Atlas 14 Volume 2). At that rate one 2-by-3-inch downspout drains about 1,190 square feet of roof and one 3-by-4-inch downspout about 2,380, 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 Newport
Half the homes in Newport were built by 1973, 57% before 1980 (ACS 2020–2024). In a neighborhood that age, many houses are on their second set of gutters or due for one, and the fascia board behind them is worth checking at the same visit. 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.
49% 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 Tennessee
Tennessee requires a home improvement license for residential projects from $3,000 to $24,999 only in the counties that adopted the law: Bradley, Davidson, Hamilton, Haywood, Knox, Marion, Robertson, Rutherford and Shelby. From $25,000 a contractor license is required statewide. In those nine counties, ask for the home improvement license number on any job of $3,000 or more and check it.
Source: Tennessee Board for Licensing Contractors, Home Improvement. Look-up: Tennessee license verification.
Gutter work in Newport
With half the homes built by 1973, replacement gutters and the fascia behind them come up more often here than in newer suburbs. The line takes all of it: