Santa Cruz County, California
Gutter cleaning, repair and new gutters in Bonny Doon, CA
Rain in Bonny Doon adds up to about 50 inches in a normal year, with about 17 days that bring an inch or more. The wettest season is winter (December to February), with about 30.5 inches; the driest is summer (June to August), with 0.3. Every 1,000 square feet of roof sheds about 30,800 gallons a year, and all of it goes through the gutters.
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NOAA station USC00040673, 4 miBars to one scale; the longest is winter (December to February).
For days with an inch of rain or more, Bonny Doon ranks 24th for heavy-rain days of the 939 places in California on this site (16.5 a year). By the age of its homes it sits near the middle of the 938 places in California on this site (half built by 1975). The first frost here ranks 80th earliest for the first fall frost of the 507 places in California on this site (November 11).
When to clean gutters in Bonny Doon
The first fall frost comes around November 11 in a typical year here, and the last spring frost around March 25 (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 Bonny Doon rain
What overwhelms a gutter is a burst, not a season. In Bonny Doon the five-minute rain expected about once in ten years falls at 5.24 inches an hour (NOAA Atlas 14 Volume 6). At that rate one 2-by-3-inch downspout drains about 1,370 square feet of roof and one 3-by-4-inch downspout about 2,750, 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 Bonny Doon
Half the homes in Bonny Doon were built by 1975, 65% 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.
84% of households own their home, and 92% 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 California
Ask any contractor working in Bonny Doon 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 Bonny Doon
With half the homes built by 1975, replacement gutters and the fascia behind them come up more often here than in newer suburbs. The line takes all of it: