Mobile County, Alabama
Gutter cleaning, repair and new gutters in Prichard, AL
Rain in Prichard adds up to about 67 inches in a normal year, with about 21 days that bring an inch or more. The wettest season is summer (June to August), with about 21.1 inches; the driest is fall (September to November), with 13.8. Every 1,000 square feet of roof sheds about 41,600 gallons a year, and all of it goes through the gutters.
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NOAA station USW00013894, 9 miBars to one scale; the longest is summer (June to August).
For days with an inch of rain or more, Prichard ranks 26th for heavy-rain days of the 323 places in Alabama on this site (21.2 a year). By the age of its homes it sits 24th oldest by median year built of the 323 places in Alabama on this site (half built by 1967). The first frost here ranks among the latest for the first fall frost of the 320 places in Alabama on this site (November 25).
When to clean gutters in Prichard
The first fall frost comes around November 25 in a typical year here, and the last spring frost around March 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 Prichard rain
What overwhelms a gutter is a burst, not a season. In Prichard the five-minute rain expected about once in ten years falls at 11.35 inches an hour (NOAA Atlas 14 Volume 9). At that rate one 2-by-3-inch downspout drains about 630 square feet of roof and one 3-by-4-inch downspout about 1,270, 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 Prichard
Half the homes in Prichard were built by 1967, 74% 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. 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.
54% of households own their home, and 83% 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 Alabama
Before hiring in Prichard, ask which Alabama license or registration the contractor holds and for a certificate of liability insurance. Hiring a gutter contractor
Gutter work in Prichard
With half the homes built by 1967, replacement gutters and the fascia behind them come up more often here than in newer suburbs. The line takes all of it: