Fulton County, Arkansas
Gutter cleaning, repair and new gutters in Salem, AR
Salem gets about 50 inches of rain in a normal year, and on about 15 days a year an inch or more falls in a single day. The wettest season is spring (March to May), with about 15.3 inches; the driest is winter (December to February), with 10.8. Off a 1,000-square-foot roof, that comes to about 30,700 gallons a year for the gutters to carry.
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NOAA station USC00036403, 1 miBars to one scale; the longest is spring (March to May).
By heavy-rain days, Salem falls near the middle of the 211 places in Arkansas on this site (15.3 a year). By house age it falls 8th oldest by median year built of the 211 places in Arkansas on this site (half built by 1971). By first frost it falls 34th earliest for the first fall frost of the 211 places in Arkansas on this site (October 30).
When to clean gutters in Salem
The first fall frost comes around October 30 in a typical year here, and the last spring frost around April 8 (median dates, NOAA normals). A fall cleaning set for the weeks after that frost, when the branches over the house are bare, gets the year’s leaves in one trip; a spring visit follows once the pollen and catkins have come down.
When to clean gutters explains how the trees over a roof change the schedule.
Gutter and downspout size for Salem rain
Gutters are sized for the worst few minutes of a storm, not for the year. In Salem the five-minute rain expected about once in ten years falls at 7.69 inches an hour (NOAA Atlas 14 Volume 9). At that rate one 2-by-3-inch downspout drains about 940 square feet of roof and one 3-by-4-inch downspout about 1,870, 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 Salem
Half the homes in Salem were built by 1971, 68% 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.
55% of households own their home, and 73% of homes are detached houses, 2% townhouses. If an association maintains the exterior, the gutters may be its job rather than yours; check before calling.
Hiring in Arkansas
Before hiring in Salem, ask which Arkansas license or registration the contractor holds and for a certificate of liability insurance. Hiring a gutter contractor
Gutter work in Salem
With half the homes built by 1971, replacement gutters and the fascia behind them come up more often here than in newer suburbs. The line takes all of it: