Baldwin County, Alabama
Gutter cleaning, repair and new gutters in Spanish Fort, AL
Spanish Fort gets about 72 inches of rain in a normal year, and on about 23 days a year an inch or more falls in a single day. The wettest season is summer (June to August), with about 22.9 inches; the driest is fall (September to November), with 15.8. Every 1,000 square feet of roof sheds about 44,500 gallons a year, and all of it goes through the gutters.
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NOAA station USC00010583, 12 miBars to one scale; the longest is summer (June to August).
For days with an inch of rain or more, Spanish Fort ranks 5th for heavy-rain days of the 323 places in Alabama on this site (22.8 a year). By house age it falls among the newest by median year built of the 323 places in Alabama on this site (half built by 1999). 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 19).
When to clean gutters in Spanish Fort
The first fall frost comes around November 19 in a typical year here, and the last spring frost around March 15 (median dates, NOAA normals). Plan the fall visit for after the frost, when the trees over the roof have finished dropping, and the spring visit for after the pollen and catkins.
When to clean gutters explains how the trees over a roof change the schedule.
Gutter and downspout size for Spanish Fort rain
What overwhelms a gutter is a burst, not a season. In Spanish Fort the five-minute rain expected about once in ten years falls at 11.02 inches an hour (NOAA Atlas 14 Volume 9). At that rate one 2-by-3-inch downspout drains about 650 square feet of roof and one 3-by-4-inch downspout about 1,310, 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 Spanish Fort
Half the homes in Spanish Fort were built by 1999, 22% before 1980 (ACS 2020–2024). In a neighborhood that young, many houses still have the gutters the builder put up, and the usual call is a cleaning, a leak or guards rather than a full replacement.
67% of households own their home, and 65% of homes are detached houses, 2% 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 Spanish Fort what Alabama requires of them for gutter work, and to show proof of insurance. Hiring a gutter contractor
Gutter work in Spanish Fort
With 22.8 days a year of an inch or more, a clogged gutter or a short downspout shows up here quickly. The line takes all of it: