Nueces County, Texas
Gutter cleaning, repair and new gutters in Port Aransas, TX
Port Aransas gets about 36 inches of rain in a normal year, and on about 10 days a year an inch or more falls in a single day. The wettest season is fall (September to November), with about 13.3 inches; the driest is winter (December to February), with 5.7. That is about 22,000 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 USC00417170, 2 miBars to one scale; the longest is fall (September to November).
For days with an inch of rain or more, Port Aransas ranks near the middle of the 959 places in Texas on this site (10.4 a year). By the age of its homes it sits near the middle of the 959 places in Texas on this site (half built by 1989).
When to clean gutters in Port Aransas
Frost is rare in Port Aransas, and in many years there is none (NOAA normals). With no hard freeze to strip the trees, the fall cleaning follows the leaf drop itself; book it once the trees over the roof are bare, and plan a second visit in spring.
When to clean gutters explains how the trees over a roof change the schedule.
Gutter and downspout size for Port Aransas rain
What overwhelms a gutter is a burst, not a season. In Port Aransas the five-minute rain expected about once in ten years falls at 10.03 inches an hour (NOAA Atlas 14 Volume 11). At that rate one 2-by-3-inch downspout drains about 720 square feet of roof and one 3-by-4-inch downspout about 1,440, 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 Port Aransas
Half the homes in Port Aransas were built by 1989, 28% before 1980 (ACS 2020–2024). In a neighborhood that age, many houses are on their second set of gutters or due for one, and the fascia board behind them is worth checking at the same visit.
73% of households own their home, and 50% of homes are detached houses, 4% townhouses. In a townhouse or HOA community, check who owns the gutters and what colors are allowed before booking.
Hiring in Texas
Ask any contractor working in Port Aransas what Texas requires of them for gutter work, and to show proof of insurance. Hiring a gutter contractor
Gutter work in Port Aransas
In a neighborhood with half its homes built by 1989, the usual calls are cleaning, guards and small repairs. The line takes all of it: