Lafayette County, Mississippi
Gutter cleaning, repair and new gutters in Oxford, MS
Oxford gets about 61 inches of rain in a normal year, and on about 19 days a year an inch or more falls in a single day. The wettest season is winter (December to February), with about 17.4 inches; the driest is fall (September to November), with 12.4. Every 1,000 square feet of roof sheds about 37,500 gallons a year, and all of it goes through the gutters.
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NOAA station USC00229079, 2 miBars to one scale; the longest is winter (December to February).
For days with an inch of rain or more, Oxford ranks near the middle of the 186 places in Mississippi on this site (19.1 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 1999). The first frost here ranks 8th earliest for the first fall frost of the 185 places in Mississippi on this site (October 31).
When to clean gutters in Oxford
The first fall frost comes around October 31 in a typical year here, and the last spring frost around April 3 (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 Oxford rain
What overwhelms a gutter is a burst, not a season. In Oxford the five-minute rain expected about once in ten years falls at 8.45 inches an hour (NOAA Atlas 14 Volume 9). At that rate one 2-by-3-inch downspout drains about 850 square feet of roof and one 3-by-4-inch downspout about 1,700, 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 Oxford
Half the homes in Oxford were built by 1999, 24% 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.
44% of households own their home, and 50% 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 Mississippi
Before hiring in Oxford, ask which Mississippi license or registration the contractor holds and for a certificate of liability insurance. Hiring a gutter contractor
Gutter work in Oxford
With 19.1 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: