Bexar County, Texas
Gutter cleaning, repair and new gutters in San Antonio, TX
Rain in San Antonio adds up to about 34 inches in a normal year, with about 9 days that bring an inch or more. The wettest season is fall (September to November), with about 10.3 inches; the driest is winter (December to February), with 6.2. Off a 1,000-square-foot roof, that comes to about 21,100 gallons a year for the gutters to carry.
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NOAA station USC00417947, 3 miBars to one scale; the longest is fall (September to November).
By heavy-rain days, San Antonio falls near the middle of the 959 places in Texas on this site (9.2 a year). Its housing ranks near the middle of the 959 places in Texas on this site (half built by 1984). By first frost it falls near the middle of the 821 places in Texas on this site (November 28).
When to clean gutters in San Antonio
The first fall frost comes around November 28 in a typical year here, and the last spring frost around February 25 (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 San Antonio rain
Gutters are sized for the worst few minutes of a storm, not for the year. In San Antonio the five-minute rain expected about once in ten years falls at 9.18 inches an hour (NOAA Atlas 14 Volume 11). At that rate one 2-by-3-inch downspout drains about 780 square feet of roof and one 3-by-4-inch downspout about 1,570, 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 San Antonio
Half the homes in San Antonio were built by 1984, 44% 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.
52% of households own their home, and 59% 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 Texas
Before hiring in San Antonio, ask which Texas license or registration the contractor holds and for a certificate of liability insurance. Hiring a gutter contractor
Gutter work in San Antonio
With half the homes built by 1984, replacement gutters and the fascia behind them come up more often here than in newer suburbs. The line takes all of it: