Tippah County, Mississippi
Gutter cleaning, repair and new gutters in Ripley, MS
Ripley gets about 58 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 winter (December to February), with about 16.7 inches; the driest is fall (September to November), with 11.8. That is about 35,700 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 USC00227467, 1 miBars to one scale; the longest is winter (December to February).
Counting days with an inch of rain or more, Ripley sits among the fewest heavy-rain days of the 186 places in Mississippi on this site (17.9 a year). By house age it falls near the middle of the 183 places in Mississippi on this site (half built by 1979). By its first fall frost it sits 6th earliest for the first fall frost of the 185 places in Mississippi on this site (October 30).
When to clean gutters in Ripley
The first fall frost comes around October 30 in a typical year here, and the last spring frost around April 3 (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 Ripley rain
The short, hard downpour is what a gutter is sized for. In Ripley the five-minute rain expected about once in ten years falls at 8.38 inches an hour (NOAA Atlas 14 Volume 9). At that rate one 2-by-3-inch downspout drains about 860 square feet of roof and one 3-by-4-inch downspout about 1,720, 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 Ripley
Half the homes in Ripley were built by 1979, 51% 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.
72% of households own their home, and 81% 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 Mississippi
Ask any contractor working in Ripley what Mississippi requires of them for gutter work, and to show proof of insurance. Hiring a gutter contractor
Gutter work in Ripley
With half the homes built by 1979, replacement gutters and the fascia behind them come up more often here than in newer suburbs. The line takes all of it: