Dallas County, Alabama
Gutter cleaning, repair and new gutters in Selma, AL
Rain in Selma adds up to about 55 inches in a normal year, with about 18 days that bring an inch or more. The wettest season is winter (December to February), with about 15.6 inches; the driest is fall (September to November), with 10.5. That is about 33,800 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 USC00017366, 1 miBars to one scale; the longest is winter (December to February).
Counting days with an inch of rain or more, Selma sits near the middle of the 323 places in Alabama on this site (17.6 a year). By house age it falls 31st oldest by median year built of the 323 places in Alabama on this site (half built by 1969). By its first fall frost it sits among the latest for the first fall frost of the 320 places in Alabama on this site (November 18).
When to clean gutters in Selma
The first fall frost comes around November 18 in a typical year here, and the last spring frost around March 8 (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 Selma rain
What overwhelms a gutter is a burst, not a season. In Selma the five-minute rain expected about once in ten years falls at 8.21 inches an hour (NOAA Atlas 14 Volume 9). At that rate one 2-by-3-inch downspout drains about 880 square feet of roof and one 3-by-4-inch downspout about 1,750, 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 Selma
Half the homes in Selma were built by 1969, 73% 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.
46% of households own their home, and 64% of homes are detached houses, 1% townhouses. In a townhouse or HOA community, check who owns the gutters and what colors are allowed before booking.
Hiring in Alabama
Ask any contractor working in Selma what Alabama requires of them for gutter work, and to show proof of insurance. Hiring a gutter contractor
Gutter work in Selma
With half the homes built by 1969, replacement gutters and the fascia behind them come up more often here than in newer suburbs. The line takes all of it: