Maricopa County, Arizona
Gutter cleaning, repair and new gutters in Apache Junction, AZ
Apache Junction gets about 13 inches of rain in a normal year, and on about 3 days a year an inch or more falls in a single day. The wettest season is winter (December to February), with about 4.7 inches; the driest is spring (March to May), with 2.1. Off a 1,000-square-foot roof, that comes to about 7,800 gallons a year for the gutters to carry.
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NOAA station USC00020288, 6 miBars to one scale; the longest is winter (December to February).
By heavy-rain days, Apache Junction falls 30th for heavy-rain days of the 119 places in Arizona on this site (2.7 a year). Its housing ranks near the middle of the 120 places in Arizona on this site (half built by 1993). By first frost it falls among the latest for the first fall frost of the 91 places in Arizona on this site (December 10).
When to clean gutters in Apache Junction
The first fall frost comes around December 10 in a typical year here, and the last spring frost around February 11 (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 Apache Junction rain
Gutters are sized for the worst few minutes of a storm, not for the year. In Apache Junction the five-minute rain expected about once in ten years falls at 4.96 inches an hour (NOAA Atlas 14 Volume 1). At that rate one 2-by-3-inch downspout drains about 1,450 square feet of roof and one 3-by-4-inch downspout about 2,900, 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.
Apache Junction is dry by national standards, about 13 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 4.96 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 Apache Junction
Half the homes in Apache Junction were built by 1993, 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.
78% of households own their home, and 40% of homes are detached houses, 2% townhouses. If an association maintains the exterior, the gutters may be its job rather than yours; check before calling.
Hiring in Arizona
Before hiring in Apache Junction, ask which Arizona license or registration the contractor holds and for a certificate of liability insurance. Hiring a gutter contractor
Gutter work in Apache Junction
In a neighborhood with half its homes built by 1993, the usual calls are cleaning, guards and small repairs. The line takes all of it: