Bexar County, Texas
Gutter cleaning, repair and new gutters in Selma, TX
A normal year in Selma brings about 34 inches of rain; on roughly 10 of its days, an inch or more comes down at once. The wettest season is fall (September to November), with about 9.1 inches; the driest is winter (December to February), with 6.8. Off a 1,000-square-foot roof, that comes to about 20,800 gallons a year for the gutters to carry.
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NOAA station USC00416276, 10 miBars to one scale; the longest is fall (September to November).
By heavy-rain days, Selma falls near the middle of the 959 places in Texas on this site (9.9 a year). By the age of its homes it sits among the newest by median year built of the 959 places in Texas on this site (half built by 2010). The first frost here ranks among the latest for the first fall frost of the 821 places in Texas on this site (December 5).
When to clean gutters in Selma
The first fall frost comes around December 5 in a typical year here, and the last spring frost around February 21 (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 Selma rain
Gutters are sized for the worst few minutes of a storm, not for the year. In Selma the five-minute rain expected about once in ten years falls at 9.20 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 Selma
Half the homes in Selma were built by 2010, 2% before 1980 (ACS 2020–2024). With homes this new, the gutters are usually the builder’s originals; keeping them clear matters more than replacing them.
58% of households own their home, and 70% of homes are detached houses, 4% 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 Selma, ask which Texas license or registration the contractor holds and for a certificate of liability insurance. Hiring a gutter contractor
Gutter work in Selma
In a neighborhood with half its homes built by 2010, the usual calls are cleaning, guards and small repairs. The line takes all of it: