Cotton County, Oklahoma
Gutter cleaning, repair and new gutters in Walters, OK
Walters gets about 33 inches of rain in a normal year, and on about 10 days a year an inch or more falls in a single day. The wettest season is spring (March to May), with about 10.4 inches; the driest is winter (December to February), with 4.9. That is about 20,700 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 USC00349278, 3 miBars to one scale; the longest is spring (March to May).
For days with an inch of rain or more, Walters ranks among the fewest heavy-rain days of the 227 places in Oklahoma on this site (9.8 a year). Its housing ranks 37th oldest by median year built of the 227 places in Oklahoma on this site (half built by 1966). By its first fall frost it sits among the latest for the first fall frost of the 226 places in Oklahoma on this site (November 6).
When to clean gutters in Walters
The first fall frost comes around November 6 in a typical year here, and the last spring frost around March 26 (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 Walters rain
What overwhelms a gutter is a burst, not a season. In Walters the five-minute rain expected about once in ten years falls at 8.76 inches an hour (NOAA Atlas 14 Volume 8). At that rate one 2-by-3-inch downspout drains about 820 square feet of roof and one 3-by-4-inch downspout about 1,640, 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 Walters
Half the homes in Walters were built by 1966, 72% 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.
73% of households own their home, and 86% 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 Oklahoma
Ask any contractor working in Walters what Oklahoma requires of them for gutter work, and to show proof of insurance. Hiring a gutter contractor
Gutter work in Walters
With half the homes built by 1966, replacement gutters and the fascia behind them come up more often here than in newer suburbs. The line takes all of it: