Fairfax County, Virginia
Gutter cleaning, repair and new gutters in Burke, VA
A normal year in Burke brings about 44 inches of rain; on roughly 10 of its days, an inch or more comes down at once. The wettest season is summer (June to August), with about 11.9 inches; the driest is winter (December to February), with 9.3. That is about 27,000 gallons a year off each 1,000 square feet of roof, every drop of it through a gutter and a downspout.
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NOAA station USC00448737, 8 miBars to one scale; the longest is summer (June to August).
Counting days with an inch of rain or more, Burke sits near the middle of the 375 places in Virginia on this site (10.2 a year). By the age of its homes it sits near the middle of the 373 places in Virginia on this site (half built by 1979). By its first fall frost it sits near the middle of the 375 places in Virginia on this site (October 29).
When to clean gutters in Burke
The first fall frost comes around October 29 in a typical year here, and the last spring frost around April 14 (median dates, NOAA normals). Booking the fall cleaning after the first frost, once the trees over the roof are bare, catches the season’s drop in one visit; the spring cleaning comes after the pollen and catkins are down.
When to clean gutters explains how the trees over a roof change the schedule.
Gutter and downspout size for Burke rain
What overwhelms a gutter is a burst, not a season. In Burke the five-minute rain expected about once in ten years falls at 6.79 inches an hour (NOAA Atlas 14 Volume 2). At that rate one 2-by-3-inch downspout drains about 1,060 square feet of roof and one 3-by-4-inch downspout about 2,120, 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 Burke
Half the homes in Burke were built by 1979, 56% 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.
90% of households own their home, and 64% of homes are detached houses, 34% townhouses. In a townhouse or HOA community, check who owns the gutters and what colors are allowed before booking.
Hiring in Virginia
Virginia requires a Board for Contractors license for any contract over $1,000; gutter work on a home falls under the home improvement specialty (HIC) or the residential building classification. Ask for the license number and class, and look it up before signing.
Source: Code of Virginia § 54.1-1100. Look-up: Virginia DPOR, license lookup.
Gutter work in Burke
With half the homes built by 1979, replacement gutters and the fascia behind them come up more often here than in newer suburbs. The line takes all of it: