Fort Bend County, Texas
Gutter cleaning, repair and new gutters in Stafford, TX
Stafford gets about 55 inches of rain in a normal year, and on about 17 days a year an inch or more falls in a single day. The wettest season is fall (September to November), with about 15.3 inches; the driest is winter (December to February), with 12.0. Off a 1,000-square-foot roof, that comes to about 34,300 gallons a year for the gutters to carry.
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NOAA station USC00414325, 4 miBars to one scale; the longest is fall (September to November).
By heavy-rain days, Stafford falls 87th for heavy-rain days of the 959 places in Texas on this site (17.4 a year). Its housing ranks near the middle of the 959 places in Texas on this site (half built by 1992). The first frost here ranks among the latest for the first fall frost of the 821 places in Texas on this site (December 11).
When to clean gutters in Stafford
The first fall frost comes around December 11 in a typical year here, and the last spring frost around February 2 (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 Stafford rain
Gutters are sized for the worst few minutes of a storm, not for the year. In Stafford the five-minute rain expected about once in ten years falls at 10.07 inches an hour (NOAA Atlas 14 Volume 11). At that rate one 2-by-3-inch downspout drains about 710 square feet of roof and one 3-by-4-inch downspout about 1,430, 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 Stafford
Half the homes in Stafford were built by 1992, 22% 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.
43% of households own their home, and 50% of homes are detached houses, 2% 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 Stafford, ask which Texas license or registration the contractor holds and for a certificate of liability insurance. Hiring a gutter contractor
Gutter work in Stafford
With 17.4 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: