Bingham County, Idaho
Gutter cleaning, repair and new gutters in Blackfoot, ID
Blackfoot gets about 12 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 spring (March to May), with about 4.3 inches. Off a 1,000-square-foot roof that is about 7,500 gallons a year, most of it in steady rain rather than downpours.
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NOAA station USC00100915, 0 miBars to one scale; the longest is spring (March to May).
For days with an inch of rain or more, Blackfoot ranks near the middle of the 90 places in Idaho on this site (0.8 a year). By the age of its homes it sits 15th oldest by median year built of the 90 places in Idaho on this site (half built by 1970). The first frost here ranks near the middle of the 90 places in Idaho on this site (October 3).
When to clean gutters in Blackfoot
The first fall frost comes around October 3 in a typical year here, and the last spring frost around May 5 (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 Blackfoot rain
What overwhelms a gutter is a burst, not a season. In Blackfoot the five-minute rain expected about once in ten years falls at 3.95 inches an hour (NOAA Atlas 14 Volume 12). At that rate one 2-by-3-inch downspout drains about 1,820 square feet of roof and one 3-by-4-inch downspout about 3,650, 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.
Blackfoot is dry by national standards, about 12 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 3.95 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 Blackfoot
Half the homes in Blackfoot were built by 1970, 69% 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.
72% of households own their home, and 73% of homes are detached houses, 4% townhouses. Where an HOA governs the exterior, its rules on gutter color and style apply before any order is placed.
Hiring in Idaho
Ask any contractor working in Blackfoot what Idaho requires of them for gutter work, and to show proof of insurance. Hiring a gutter contractor
Gutter work in Blackfoot
With half the homes built by 1970, replacement gutters and the fascia behind them come up more often here than in newer suburbs. The line takes all of it: