Franklin County, Arkansas
Gutter cleaning, repair and new gutters in Ozark, AR
Ozark gets about 52 inches of rain in a normal year, and on about 18 days a year an inch or more falls in a single day. The wettest season is spring (March to May), with about 15.7 inches; the driest is winter (December to February), with 10.6. That is about 32,400 gallons a year off each 1,000 square feet of roof, every drop of it through a gutter and a downspout.
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NOAA station USC00035512, 1 miBars to one scale; the longest is spring (March to May).
Counting days with an inch of rain or more, Ozark sits 21st for heavy-rain days of the 211 places in Arkansas on this site (18.2 a year). By house age it falls near the middle of the 211 places in Arkansas on this site (half built by 1982). By its first fall frost it sits near the middle of the 211 places in Arkansas on this site (November 6).
When to clean gutters in Ozark
The first fall frost comes around November 6 in a typical year here, and the last spring frost around March 30 (median dates, NOAA normals). Booking the fall cleaning after the first frost, once the trees over the roof are bare, catches the season’s drop in one visit; the spring cleaning comes after the pollen and catkins are down.
When to clean gutters explains how the trees over a roof change the schedule.
Gutter and downspout size for Ozark rain
The short, hard downpour is what a gutter is sized for. In Ozark the five-minute rain expected about once in ten years falls at 7.33 inches an hour (NOAA Atlas 14 Volume 9). At that rate one 2-by-3-inch downspout drains about 980 square feet of roof and one 3-by-4-inch downspout about 1,960, 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 Ozark
Half the homes in Ozark were built by 1982, 45% before 1980 (ACS 2020–2024). Houses that age have often had their gutters replaced once already; if not, the original runs and the boards behind them deserve a close look. 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.
45% of households own their home, and 67% of homes are detached houses, 6% townhouses. In a townhouse or HOA community, check who owns the gutters and what colors are allowed before booking.
Hiring in Arkansas
Ask any contractor working in Ozark what Arkansas requires of them for gutter work, and to show proof of insurance. Hiring a gutter contractor
Gutter work in Ozark
With half the homes built by 1982, replacement gutters and the fascia behind them come up more often here than in newer suburbs. The line takes all of it: