Cameron County, Texas
Gutter cleaning, repair and new gutters in San Benito, TX
San Benito gets about 28 inches of rain in a normal year, and on about 7 days a year an inch or more falls in a single day. The wettest season is fall (September to November), with about 10.8 inches; the driest is winter (December to February), with 4.0. Every 1,000 square feet of roof sheds about 17,500 gallons a year, and all of it goes through the gutters.
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NOAA station USC00413943, 5 miBars to one scale; the longest is fall (September to November).
For days with an inch of rain or more, San Benito ranks among the fewest heavy-rain days of the 959 places in Texas on this site (7.4 a year). Its housing ranks near the middle of the 959 places in Texas on this site (half built by 1985).
When to clean gutters in San Benito
Frost is rare in San Benito, and in many years there is none (NOAA normals). With no hard freeze to strip the trees, the fall cleaning follows the leaf drop itself; book it once the trees over the roof are bare, and plan a second visit in spring.
When to clean gutters explains how the trees over a roof change the schedule.
Gutter and downspout size for San Benito rain
Gutters are sized for the worst few minutes of a storm, not for the year. In San Benito the five-minute rain expected about once in ten years falls at 9.88 inches an hour (NOAA Atlas 14 Volume 11). At that rate one 2-by-3-inch downspout drains about 730 square feet of roof and one 3-by-4-inch downspout about 1,460, 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 Benito
Half the homes in San Benito were built by 1985, 41% 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.
68% of households own their home, and 70% of homes are detached houses, 3% townhouses. Where an HOA governs the exterior, its rules on gutter color and style apply before any order is placed.
Hiring in Texas
Before hiring in San Benito, ask which Texas license or registration the contractor holds and for a certificate of liability insurance. Hiring a gutter contractor
Gutter work in San Benito
With half the homes built by 1985, replacement gutters and the fascia behind them come up more often here than in newer suburbs. The line takes all of it: