St. James Parish, Louisiana
Gutter cleaning, repair and new gutters in South Vacherie, LA
South Vacherie gets about 65 inches of rain in a normal year, and on about 18 days a year an inch or more falls in a single day. The wettest season is summer (June to August), with about 22.5 inches; the driest is fall (September to November), with 12.7. That is about 40,000 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 USC00165783, 7 miBars to one scale; the longest is summer (June to August).
Counting days with an inch of rain or more, South Vacherie sits among the fewest heavy-rain days of the 269 places in Louisiana on this site (17.7 a year). By the age of its homes it sits near the middle of the 269 places in Louisiana on this site (half built by 1980). By its first fall frost it sits among the latest for the first fall frost of the 222 places in Louisiana on this site (December 14).
When to clean gutters in South Vacherie
The first fall frost comes around December 14 in a typical year here, and the last spring frost around February 9 (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 South Vacherie rain
What overwhelms a gutter is a burst, not a season. In South Vacherie the five-minute rain expected about once in ten years falls at 10.27 inches an hour (NOAA Atlas 14 Volume 9). At that rate one 2-by-3-inch downspout drains about 700 square feet of roof and one 3-by-4-inch downspout about 1,400, 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 South Vacherie
Half the homes in South Vacherie were built by 1980, 50% 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.
92% of households own their home, and 85% 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 Louisiana
Ask any contractor working in South Vacherie what Louisiana requires of them for gutter work, and to show proof of insurance. Hiring a gutter contractor
Gutter work in South Vacherie
With half the homes built by 1980, replacement gutters and the fascia behind them come up more often here than in newer suburbs. The line takes all of it: