El Dorado County, California
Gutter cleaning, repair and new gutters in Camino, CA
Rain in Camino adds up to about 39 inches in a normal year, with about 13 days that bring an inch or more. The wettest season is winter (December to February), with about 20.5 inches; the driest is summer (June to August), with 0.7. That is about 24,300 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 USC00044484, 9 miBars to one scale; the longest is winter (December to February).
Counting days with an inch of rain or more, Camino sits 72nd for heavy-rain days of the 939 places in California on this site (12.5 a year). By house age it falls near the middle of the 938 places in California on this site (half built by 1971). By its first fall frost it sits 116th earliest for the first fall frost of the 507 places in California on this site (November 21).
When to clean gutters in Camino
The first fall frost comes around November 21 in a typical year here, and the last spring frost around March 31 (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 Camino rain
The short, hard downpour is what a gutter is sized for. In Camino the five-minute rain expected about once in ten years falls at 2.77 inches an hour (NOAA Atlas 14 Volume 6). At that rate one 2-by-3-inch downspout drains about 2,600 square feet of roof and one 3-by-4-inch downspout about 5,200, 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.
Camino averages about 58 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 Camino
Half the homes in Camino were built by 1971, 70% 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. 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.
70% of households own their home, and 93% of homes are detached houses. In a townhouse or HOA community, check who owns the gutters and what colors are allowed before booking.
Hiring in California
Licensing for gutter work differs from state to state; ask a contractor in Camino which license or registration they hold in California, and for proof of liability 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 Camino
With half the homes built by 1971, replacement gutters and the fascia behind them come up more often here than in newer suburbs. The line takes all of it: