Upton County, Texas
Gutter cleaning, repair and new gutters in Rankin, TX
Rankin gets about 15 inches of rain in a normal year, and on about 3 days a year an inch or more falls in a single day. The wettest season is summer (June to August), with about 5.7 inches; the driest is winter (December to February), with 1.9. Every 1,000 square feet of roof sheds about 9,200 gallons a year, and all of it goes through the gutters.
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NOAA station USC00415707, 18 miBars to one scale; the longest is summer (June to August).
For days with an inch of rain or more, Rankin ranks among the fewest heavy-rain days of the 959 places in Texas on this site (3.0 a year). Its housing ranks 37th oldest by median year built of the 959 places in Texas on this site (half built by 1960). By its first fall frost it sits near the middle of the 821 places in Texas on this site (November 16).
When to clean gutters in Rankin
The first fall frost comes around November 16 in a typical year here, and the last spring frost around March 12 (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 Rankin rain
What overwhelms a gutter is a burst, not a season. In Rankin the five-minute rain expected about once in ten years falls at 7.51 inches an hour (NOAA Atlas 14 Volume 11). At that rate one 2-by-3-inch downspout drains about 960 square feet of roof and one 3-by-4-inch downspout about 1,920, 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.
Rankin is dry by national standards, about 15 inches in a normal year, but much of the rain that does come can arrive in short, hard storms: the five-minute downpour expected once in ten years still runs at 7.51 inches an hour. Where gutters are used here, the job is moving that burst away from the foundation, and keeping a dry season’s dust and debris from blocking the first storm.
The houses in Rankin
Half the homes in Rankin were built by 1960, 70% 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.
78% of households own their home, and 85% of homes are detached houses. 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 Rankin what Texas requires of them for gutter work, and to show proof of insurance. Hiring a gutter contractor
Gutter work in Rankin
With half the homes built by 1960, replacement gutters and the fascia behind them come up more often here than in newer suburbs. The line takes all of it: