Lamar County, Mississippi
Gutter cleaning, repair and new gutters in Oak Grove, MS
Rain in Oak Grove adds up to about 64 inches in a normal year, with about 20 days that bring an inch or more. The wettest season is winter (December to February), with about 18.1 inches; the driest is fall (September to November), with 12.2. Every 1,000 square feet of roof sheds about 40,000 gallons a year, and all of it goes through the gutters.
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NOAA station USC00223887, 5 miBars to one scale; the longest is winter (December to February).
For days with an inch of rain or more, Oak Grove ranks 42nd for heavy-rain days of the 186 places in Mississippi on this site (20.2 a year). By house age it falls among the newest by median year built of the 183 places in Mississippi on this site (half built by 2006). The first frost here ranks among the latest for the first fall frost of the 185 places in Mississippi on this site (November 23).
When to clean gutters in Oak Grove
The first fall frost comes around November 23 in a typical year here, and the last spring frost around March 7 (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 Oak Grove rain
What overwhelms a gutter is a burst, not a season. In Oak Grove the five-minute rain expected about once in ten years falls at 9.82 inches an hour (NOAA Atlas 14 Volume 9). At that rate one 2-by-3-inch downspout drains about 730 square feet of roof and one 3-by-4-inch downspout about 1,470, 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 Oak Grove
Half the homes in Oak Grove were built by 2006, 7% 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.
59% of households own their home, and 80% of homes are detached houses, 6% townhouses. Where an HOA governs the exterior, its rules on gutter color and style apply before any order is placed.
Hiring in Mississippi
Ask any contractor working in Oak Grove what Mississippi requires of them for gutter work, and to show proof of insurance. Hiring a gutter contractor
Gutter work in Oak Grove
With 20.2 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: