Oklahoma County, Oklahoma
Gutter cleaning, repair and new gutters in Nichols Hills, OK
Rain in Nichols Hills adds up to about 31 inches in a normal year, with about 9 days that bring an inch or more. The wettest season is summer (June to August), with about 11.2 inches; the driest is winter (December to February), with 3.0. That is about 19,000 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 USW00003954, 6 miBars to one scale; the longest is summer (June to August).
Counting days with an inch of rain or more, Nichols Hills sits among the fewest heavy-rain days of the 227 places in Oklahoma on this site (8.8 a year). By house age it falls 12th oldest by median year built of the 227 places in Oklahoma on this site (half built by 1959). By its first fall frost it sits near the middle of the 226 places in Oklahoma on this site (November 4).
When to clean gutters in Nichols Hills
The first fall frost comes around November 4 in a typical year here, and the last spring frost around April 2 (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 Nichols Hills rain
What overwhelms a gutter is a burst, not a season. In Nichols Hills the five-minute rain expected about once in ten years falls at 8.57 inches an hour (NOAA Atlas 14 Volume 8). At that rate one 2-by-3-inch downspout drains about 840 square feet of roof and one 3-by-4-inch downspout about 1,680, 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 Nichols Hills
Half the homes in Nichols Hills were built by 1959, 73% 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.
95% of households own their home, and 95% 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 Oklahoma
Ask any contractor working in Nichols Hills what Oklahoma requires of them for gutter work, and to show proof of insurance. Hiring a gutter contractor
Gutter work in Nichols Hills
With half the homes built by 1959, replacement gutters and the fascia behind them come up more often here than in newer suburbs. The line takes all of it: