Lincoln County, Wyoming
Gutter cleaning, repair and new gutters in Afton, WY
Afton gets about 18 inches of rain in a normal year, and a day with an inch or more comes once every 2 years or so. The wettest season is spring (March to May), with about 5.3 inches. Off a 1,000-square-foot roof that is about 11,000 gallons a year, most of it in steady rain rather than downpours.
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NOAA station USC00480027, 1 miBars to one scale; the longest is spring (March to May).
Counting days with an inch of rain or more, Afton sits near the middle of the 31 places in Wyoming on this site (0.8 a year). By house age it falls 6th oldest by median year built of the 31 places in Wyoming on this site (half built by 1973). By its first fall frost it sits 7th earliest for the first fall frost of the 31 places in Wyoming on this site (September 1).
When to clean gutters in Afton
The first fall frost comes around September 1 in a typical year here, and the last spring frost around June 20 (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 Afton rain
What overwhelms a gutter is a burst, not a season. In Afton the five-minute rain expected about once in ten years falls at 3.49 inches an hour (NOAA Atlas 14 Volume 12). At that rate one 2-by-3-inch downspout drains about 2,060 square feet of roof and one 3-by-4-inch downspout about 4,130, 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.
With about 88 inches of snow in a normal year here (NOAA normals), gutters carry ice as well as water. Ice dams start with heat from the house melting roof snow that refreezes at the edge (University of Minnesota Extension); the fix for the dam is in the attic, and the gutter’s part is to be hung strongly enough to take the weight.
The houses in Afton
Half the homes in Afton were built by 1973, 70% 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.
59% of households own their home, and 61% of homes are detached houses, 5% townhouses. In a townhouse or HOA community, check who owns the gutters and what colors are allowed before booking.
Hiring in Wyoming
Ask any contractor working in Afton what Wyoming requires of them for gutter work, and to show proof of insurance. Hiring a gutter contractor
Gutter work in Afton
With half the homes built by 1973, replacement gutters and the fascia behind them come up more often here than in newer suburbs. The line takes all of it: