Stearns County, Minnesota
Gutter cleaning, repair and new gutters in Clearwater, MN
Rain in Clearwater adds up to about 28 inches in a normal year, with about 6 days that bring an inch or more. The wettest season is summer (June to August), with about 11.3 inches; the driest is winter (December to February), with 2.3. Every 1,000 square feet of roof sheds about 17,700 gallons a year, and all of it goes through the gutters.
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NOAA station USW00014926, 9 miBars to one scale; the longest is summer (June to August).
By heavy-rain days, Clearwater falls among the fewest heavy-rain days of the 334 places in Minnesota on this site (5.9 a year). By the age of its homes it sits among the newest by median year built of the 335 places in Minnesota on this site (half built by 2002). The first frost here ranks 51st earliest for the first fall frost of the 336 places in Minnesota on this site (September 30).
When to clean gutters in Clearwater
The first fall frost comes around September 30 in a typical year here, and the last spring frost around May 7 (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 Clearwater rain
Gutters are sized for the worst few minutes of a storm, not for the year. In Clearwater the five-minute rain expected about once in ten years falls at 7.51 inches an hour (NOAA Atlas 14 Volume 8). At that rate one 2-by-3-inch downspout drains about 960 square feet of roof and one 3-by-4-inch downspout about 1,920, 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.
Clearwater averages about 48 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 Clearwater
Half the homes in Clearwater were built by 2002, 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.
64% of households own their home, and 55% of homes are detached houses, 13% townhouses. Where an HOA governs the exterior, its rules on gutter color and style apply before any order is placed.
Hiring in Minnesota
Before hiring in Clearwater, ask which Minnesota license or registration the contractor holds and for a certificate of liability insurance. Hiring a gutter contractor
Gutter work in Clearwater
In a neighborhood with half its homes built by 2002, the usual calls are cleaning, guards and small repairs. The line takes all of it: