Pima County, Arizona
Gutter cleaning, repair and new gutters in Catalina Foothills, AZ
Rain in Catalina Foothills adds up to about 12 inches in a normal year, with about 2 days that bring an inch or more. The wettest season is summer (June to August), with about 5.3 inches; the driest is spring (March to May), with 1.1. Off a 1,000-square-foot roof, that comes to about 7,300 gallons a year for the gutters to carry.
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NOAA station USC00028796, 4 miBars to one scale; the longest is summer (June to August).
By heavy-rain days, Catalina Foothills falls near the middle of the 119 places in Arizona on this site (1.5 a year). By house age it falls 21st oldest by median year built of the 120 places in Arizona on this site (half built by 1985). By first frost it falls near the middle of the 91 places in Arizona on this site (November 27).
When to clean gutters in Catalina Foothills
The first fall frost comes around November 27 in a typical year here, and the last spring frost around February 20 (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 Catalina Foothills rain
Gutters are sized for the worst few minutes of a storm, not for the year. In Catalina Foothills the five-minute rain expected about once in ten years falls at 6.23 inches an hour (NOAA Atlas 14 Volume 1). At that rate one 2-by-3-inch downspout drains about 1,160 square feet of roof and one 3-by-4-inch downspout about 2,310, 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.
Catalina Foothills 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 6.23 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 Catalina Foothills
Half the homes in Catalina Foothills were built by 1985, 35% 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.
76% of households own their home, and 65% of homes are detached houses, 12% townhouses. If an association maintains the exterior, the gutters may be its job rather than yours; check before calling.
Hiring in Arizona
Before hiring in Catalina Foothills, ask which Arizona license or registration the contractor holds and for a certificate of liability insurance. Hiring a gutter contractor
Gutter work in Catalina Foothills
With half the homes built by 1985, replacement gutters and the fascia behind them come up more often here than in newer suburbs. The line takes all of it: