Bernalillo County, New Mexico
Gutter cleaning, repair and new gutters in Albuquerque, NM
Albuquerque gets about 10 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 summer (June to August), with about 3.5 inches. Off a 1,000-square-foot roof that is about 6,100 gallons a year, most of it in steady rain rather than downpours.
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NOAA station USC00296754, 4 miBars to one scale; the longest is summer (June to August).
For days with an inch of rain or more, Albuquerque ranks near the middle of the 71 places in New Mexico on this site (0.8 a year). By the age of its homes it sits near the middle of the 71 places in New Mexico on this site (half built by 1982). By its first fall frost it sits near the middle of the 71 places in New Mexico on this site (October 20).
When to clean gutters in Albuquerque
The first fall frost comes around October 20 in a typical year here, and the last spring frost around April 23 (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 Albuquerque rain
What overwhelms a gutter is a burst, not a season. In Albuquerque the five-minute rain expected about once in ten years falls at 4.19 inches an hour (NOAA Atlas 14 Volume 1). At that rate one 2-by-3-inch downspout drains about 1,720 square feet of roof and one 3-by-4-inch downspout about 3,440, 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.
Albuquerque is dry by national standards, about 10 inches in a normal year, but much of the rain that does come can arrive in short, hard storms: the five-minute downpour expected once in ten years still runs at 4.19 inches an hour. Where gutters are used here, the job is moving that burst away from the foundation, and keeping a dry season’s dust and debris from blocking the first storm.
The houses in Albuquerque
Half the homes in Albuquerque were built by 1982, 48% 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.
62% of households own their home, and 62% of homes are detached houses, 6% townhouses. In a townhouse or HOA community, check who owns the gutters and what colors are allowed before booking.
Hiring in New Mexico
Ask any contractor working in Albuquerque what New Mexico requires of them for gutter work, and to show proof of insurance. Hiring a gutter contractor
Gutter work in Albuquerque
With half the homes built by 1982, replacement gutters and the fascia behind them come up more often here than in newer suburbs. The line takes all of it: