Ector County, Texas
Gutter cleaning, repair and new gutters in Odessa, TX
Odessa gets about 12 inches of rain in a normal year, and on about 3 days a year an inch or more falls in a single day. The wettest season is summer (June to August), with about 4.1 inches; the driest is winter (December to February), with 1.8. Every 1,000 square feet of roof sheds about 7,600 gallons a year, and all of it goes through the gutters.
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For days with an inch of rain or more, Odessa ranks among the fewest heavy-rain days of the 959 places in Texas on this site (3.2 a year). Its housing ranks near the middle of the 959 places in Texas on this site (half built by 1978). The first frost here ranks near the middle of the 821 places in Texas on this site (November 16).
When to clean gutters in Odessa
The first fall frost comes around November 16 in a typical year here, and the last spring frost around March 15 (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 Odessa rain
Gutters are sized for the worst few minutes of a storm, not for the year. In Odessa the five-minute rain expected about once in ten years falls at 7.40 inches an hour (NOAA Atlas 14 Volume 11). At that rate one 2-by-3-inch downspout drains about 970 square feet of roof and one 3-by-4-inch downspout about 1,950, 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.
Odessa is dry by national standards, about 12 inches in a normal year, but much of the rain that does come can arrive in short, hard storms: the five-minute downpour expected once in ten years still runs at 7.40 inches an hour. Where gutters are used here, the job is moving that burst away from the foundation, and keeping a dry season’s dust and debris from blocking the first storm.
The houses in Odessa
Half the homes in Odessa were built by 1978, 54% 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.
59% of households own their home, and 64% of homes are detached houses, 2% townhouses. Where an HOA governs the exterior, its rules on gutter color and style apply before any order is placed.
Hiring in Texas
Before hiring in Odessa, ask which Texas license or registration the contractor holds and for a certificate of liability insurance. Hiring a gutter contractor
Gutter work in Odessa
With half the homes built by 1978, replacement gutters and the fascia behind them come up more often here than in newer suburbs. The line takes all of it: