Nevada County, California
Gutter cleaning, repair and new gutters in Alta Sierra, CA
Rain in Alta Sierra adds up to about 53 inches in a normal year, with about 19 days that bring an inch or more. The wettest season is winter (December to February), with about 28.8 inches; the driest is summer (June to August), with 0.8. That is about 33,000 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 USC00043573, 5 miBars to one scale; the longest is winter (December to February).
Counting days with an inch of rain or more, Alta Sierra sits 19th for heavy-rain days of the 939 places in California on this site (19.2 a year). By house age it falls near the middle of the 938 places in California on this site (half built by 1984). By its first fall frost it sits 90th earliest for the first fall frost of the 507 places in California on this site (November 13).
When to clean gutters in Alta Sierra
The first fall frost comes around November 13 in a typical year here, and the last spring frost around April 10 (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 Alta Sierra rain
What overwhelms a gutter is a burst, not a season. In Alta Sierra the five-minute rain expected about once in ten years falls at 3.07 inches an hour (NOAA Atlas 14 Volume 6). At that rate one 2-by-3-inch downspout drains about 2,350 square feet of roof and one 3-by-4-inch downspout about 4,690, 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 Alta Sierra
Half the homes in Alta Sierra were built by 1984, 36% 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.
86% of households own their home, and 95% 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 California
Ask any contractor working in Alta Sierra what California requires of them for gutter work, and to show proof of insurance. Hiring a gutter contractor
In California’s fire hazard severity zones, the 2025 Wildland-Urban Interface Code (in force January 1, 2026) requires gutters and downspouts of noncombustible material, and gutters fitted with an approved means to keep leaves and debris from collecting (section 504.4). (2025 California Wildland-Urban Interface Code, Chapter 5 (UpCodes))
Gutter work in Alta Sierra
With half the homes built by 1984, replacement gutters and the fascia behind them come up more often here than in newer suburbs. The line takes all of it: