Oakland County, Michigan
Gutter cleaning, repair and new gutters in Auburn Hills, MI
Auburn Hills gets about 34 inches of rain in a normal year, and on about 5 days a year an inch or more falls in a single day. The wettest season is summer (June to August), with about 9.7 inches; the driest is winter (December to February), with 6.3. Off a 1,000-square-foot roof, that comes to about 21,000 gallons a year for the gutters to carry.
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NOAA station USC00206658, 3 miBars to one scale; the longest is summer (June to August).
By heavy-rain days, Auburn Hills falls among the fewest heavy-rain days of the 405 places in Michigan on this site (5.3 a year). Its housing ranks among the newest by median year built of the 406 places in Michigan on this site (half built by 1990). By first frost it falls among the latest for the first fall frost of the 406 places in Michigan on this site (October 22).
When to clean gutters in Auburn Hills
The first fall frost comes around October 22 in a typical year here, and the last spring frost around April 26 (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 Auburn Hills rain
The short, hard downpour is what a gutter is sized for. In Auburn Hills the five-minute rain expected about once in ten years falls at 6.42 inches an hour (NOAA Atlas 14 Volume 8). At that rate one 2-by-3-inch downspout drains about 1,120 square feet of roof and one 3-by-4-inch downspout about 2,240, 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.
Auburn Hills averages about 36 inches of snow a year (NOAA normals). Snow on a roof brings ice dams: heat escaping from the house melts the snow, and the water refreezes at the cold eave, in the gutter and over it. University of Minnesota Extension puts the cause in the attic, not in the gutter, so a gutter that fills with ice is a symptom; hangers spaced to carry ice and a sound fascia are what the gutter itself needs.
The houses in Auburn Hills
Half the homes in Auburn Hills were built by 1990, 36% before 1980 (ACS 2020–2024). Houses that age have often had their gutters replaced once already; if not, the original runs and the boards behind them deserve a close look.
51% of households own their home, and 40% of homes are detached houses, 11% townhouses. If an association maintains the exterior, the gutters may be its job rather than yours; check before calling.
Hiring in Michigan
Licensing for gutter work differs from state to state; ask a contractor in Auburn Hills which license or registration they hold in Michigan, and for proof of liability insurance. Hiring a gutter contractor
Gutter work in Auburn Hills
In a neighborhood with half its homes built by 1990, the usual calls are cleaning, guards and small repairs. The line takes all of it: