Lee County, Alabama
Gutter cleaning, repair and new gutters in Opelika, AL
Opelika gets about 55 inches of rain in a normal year, and on about 17 days a year an inch or more falls in a single day. The wettest season is winter (December to February), with about 16.1 inches; the driest is fall (September to November), with 11.2. Off a 1,000-square-foot roof, that comes to about 34,200 gallons a year for the gutters to carry.
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NOAA station USC00016129, 4 miBars to one scale; the longest is winter (December to February).
By heavy-rain days, Opelika falls among the fewest heavy-rain days of the 323 places in Alabama on this site (16.9 a year). Its housing ranks near the middle of the 323 places in Alabama on this site (half built by 1990). By first frost it falls near the middle of the 320 places in Alabama on this site (November 5).
When to clean gutters in Opelika
The first fall frost comes around November 5 in a typical year here, and the last spring frost around March 29 (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 Opelika rain
Gutters are sized for the worst few minutes of a storm, not for the year. In Opelika the five-minute rain expected about once in ten years falls at 8.26 inches an hour (NOAA Atlas 14 Volume 9). At that rate one 2-by-3-inch downspout drains about 870 square feet of roof and one 3-by-4-inch downspout about 1,740, 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 Opelika
Half the homes in Opelika were built by 1990, 38% 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.
69% of households own their home, and 68% of homes are detached houses, 3% townhouses. If an association maintains the exterior, the gutters may be its job rather than yours; check before calling.
Hiring in Alabama
Before hiring in Opelika, ask which Alabama license or registration the contractor holds and for a certificate of liability insurance. Hiring a gutter contractor
Gutter work in Opelika
With 16.9 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: