Jefferson County, Texas
Gutter cleaning, repair and new gutters in Port Arthur, TX
A normal year in Port Arthur brings about 60 inches of rain; on roughly 19 of its days, an inch or more comes down at once. The wettest season is summer (June to August), with about 19.6 inches; the driest is spring (March to May), with 11.4. Every 1,000 square feet of roof sheds about 37,100 gallons a year, and all of it goes through the gutters.
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NOAA station USC00417172, 5 miBars to one scale; the longest is summer (June to August).
By heavy-rain days, Port Arthur falls 57th for heavy-rain days of the 959 places in Texas on this site (18.6 a year). By the age of its homes it sits 240th oldest by median year built of the 959 places in Texas on this site (half built by 1975). The first frost here ranks among the latest for the first fall frost of the 821 places in Texas on this site (December 7).
When to clean gutters in Port Arthur
The first fall frost comes around December 7 in a typical year here, and the last spring frost around February 14 (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 Port Arthur rain
Gutters are sized for the worst few minutes of a storm, not for the year. In Port Arthur the five-minute rain expected about once in ten years falls at 10.51 inches an hour (NOAA Atlas 14 Volume 11). At that rate one 2-by-3-inch downspout drains about 690 square feet of roof and one 3-by-4-inch downspout about 1,370, 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 Arthur
Half the homes in Port Arthur were built by 1975, 59% 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.
57% of households own their home, and 69% 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 Port Arthur, ask which Texas license or registration the contractor holds and for a certificate of liability insurance. Hiring a gutter contractor
Gutter work in Port Arthur
With half the homes built by 1975, replacement gutters and the fascia behind them come up more often here than in newer suburbs. The line takes all of it: