Iron County, Utah
Gutter cleaning, repair and new gutters in Cedar City, UT
Rain in Cedar City adds up to about 13 inches in a normal year, with about 1 days that bring an inch or more. The wettest season is spring (March to May), with about 3.6 inches; the driest is winter (December to February), with 3.0. Off a 1,000-square-foot roof, that comes to about 8,100 gallons a year for the gutters to carry.
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NOAA station USC00421259, 1 miBars to one scale; the longest is spring (March to May).
By heavy-rain days, Cedar City falls near the middle of the 142 places in Utah on this site (1.3 a year). Its housing ranks near the middle of the 142 places in Utah on this site (half built by 1996). By first frost it falls near the middle of the 142 places in Utah on this site (October 13).
When to clean gutters in Cedar City
The first fall frost comes around October 13 in a typical year here, and the last spring frost around May 4 (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 Cedar City rain
Gutters are sized for the worst few minutes of a storm, not for the year. In Cedar City the five-minute rain expected about once in ten years falls at 3.79 inches an hour (NOAA Atlas 14 Volume 1). At that rate one 2-by-3-inch downspout drains about 1,900 square feet of roof and one 3-by-4-inch downspout about 3,800, 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.
With about 60 inches of snow in a normal year here (NOAA normals), gutters carry ice as well as water. Ice dams start with heat from the house melting roof snow that refreezes at the edge (University of Minnesota Extension); the fix for the dam is in the attic, and the gutter’s part is to be hung strongly enough to take the weight.
Cedar City is dry by national standards, about 13 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 3.79 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 Cedar City
Half the homes in Cedar City were built by 1996, 23% before 1980 (ACS 2020–2024). With homes this new, the gutters are usually the builder’s originals; keeping them clear matters more than replacing them.
57% of households own their home, and 54% of homes are detached houses, 14% townhouses. If an association maintains the exterior, the gutters may be its job rather than yours; check before calling.
Hiring in Utah
Before hiring in Cedar City, ask which Utah license or registration the contractor holds and for a certificate of liability insurance. Hiring a gutter contractor
Gutter work in Cedar City
In a neighborhood with half its homes built by 1996, the usual calls are cleaning, guards and small repairs. The line takes all of it: