Brown County, Wisconsin
Gutter cleaning, repair and new gutters in Bellevue, WI
A normal year in Bellevue brings about 32 inches of rain; on roughly 6 of its days, an inch or more comes down at once. The wettest season is summer (June to August), with about 11.1 inches; the driest is winter (December to February), with 4.3. Every 1,000 square feet of roof sheds about 19,600 gallons a year, and all of it goes through the gutters.
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NOAA station USW00014898, 8 miBars to one scale; the longest is summer (June to August).
By heavy-rain days, Bellevue falls among the fewest heavy-rain days of the 386 places in Wisconsin on this site (5.9 a year). By the age of its homes it sits among the newest by median year built of the 387 places in Wisconsin on this site (half built by 1995). The first frost here ranks near the middle of the 387 places in Wisconsin on this site (October 9).
When to clean gutters in Bellevue
The first fall frost comes around October 9 in a typical year here, and the last spring frost around April 30 (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 Bellevue rain
Gutters are sized for the worst few minutes of a storm, not for the year. In Bellevue the five-minute rain expected about once in ten years falls at 6.43 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.
With about 56 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 Bellevue
Half the homes in Bellevue were built by 1995, 19% 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.
64% of households own their home, and 50% of homes are detached houses, 8% townhouses. Where an HOA governs the exterior, its rules on gutter color and style apply before any order is placed.
Hiring in Wisconsin
Before hiring in Bellevue, ask which Wisconsin license or registration the contractor holds and for a certificate of liability insurance. Hiring a gutter contractor
Gutter work in Bellevue
In a neighborhood with half its homes built by 1995, the usual calls are cleaning, guards and small repairs. The line takes all of it: