Jackson County, Mississippi
Gutter cleaning, repair and new gutters in Ocean Springs, MS
Rain in Ocean Springs adds up to about 66 inches in a normal year, with about 21 days that bring an inch or more. The wettest season is summer (June to August), with about 22.5 inches; the driest is fall (September to November), with 13.5. Off a 1,000-square-foot roof, that comes to about 40,800 gallons a year for the gutters to carry.
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NOAA station USC00226484, 1 miBars to one scale; the longest is summer (June to August).
By heavy-rain days, Ocean Springs falls 14th for heavy-rain days of the 186 places in Mississippi on this site (21.1 a year). Its housing ranks near the middle of the 183 places in Mississippi on this site (half built by 1979). By first frost it falls among the latest for the first fall frost of the 185 places in Mississippi on this site (December 14).
When to clean gutters in Ocean Springs
The first fall frost comes around December 14 in a typical year here, and the last spring frost around February 12 (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 Ocean Springs rain
Gutters are sized for the worst few minutes of a storm, not for the year. In Ocean Springs the five-minute rain expected about once in ten years falls at 11.22 inches an hour (NOAA Atlas 14 Volume 9). At that rate one 2-by-3-inch downspout drains about 640 square feet of roof and one 3-by-4-inch downspout about 1,280, 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 Ocean Springs
Half the homes in Ocean Springs were built by 1979, 53% 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.
69% of households own their home, and 79% of homes are detached houses, 2% townhouses. If an association maintains the exterior, the gutters may be its job rather than yours; check before calling.
Hiring in Mississippi
Before hiring in Ocean Springs, ask which Mississippi license or registration the contractor holds and for a certificate of liability insurance. Hiring a gutter contractor
Gutter work in Ocean Springs
With half the homes built by 1979, replacement gutters and the fascia behind them come up more often here than in newer suburbs. The line takes all of it: