Brown County, Wisconsin
Gutter cleaning, repair and new gutters in Denmark, WI
Denmark gets about 30 inches of rain in a normal year, and on about 6 days a year an inch or more falls in a single day. The wettest season is summer (June to August), with about 10.6 inches; the driest is winter (December to February), with 4.0. That is about 18,600 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 USC00472055, 1 miBars to one scale; the longest is summer (June to August).
Counting days with an inch of rain or more, Denmark sits among the fewest heavy-rain days of the 386 places in Wisconsin on this site (5.9 a year). By house age it falls near the middle of the 387 places in Wisconsin on this site (half built by 1977). By its first fall frost it sits near the middle of the 387 places in Wisconsin on this site (October 12).
When to clean gutters in Denmark
The first fall frost comes around October 12 in a typical year here, and the last spring frost around May 6 (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 Denmark rain
The short, hard downpour is what a gutter is sized for. In Denmark the five-minute rain expected about once in ten years falls at 6.53 inches an hour (NOAA Atlas 14 Volume 8). At that rate one 2-by-3-inch downspout drains about 1,100 square feet of roof and one 3-by-4-inch downspout about 2,210, 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.
Denmark averages about 53 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 Denmark
Half the homes in Denmark were built by 1977, 53% 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.
77% of households own their home, and 72% of homes are detached houses, 3% townhouses. In a townhouse or HOA community, check who owns the gutters and what colors are allowed before booking.
Hiring in Wisconsin
Licensing for gutter work differs from state to state; ask a contractor in Denmark which license or registration they hold in Wisconsin, and for proof of liability insurance. Hiring a gutter contractor
Gutter work in Denmark
With half the homes built by 1977, replacement gutters and the fascia behind them come up more often here than in newer suburbs. The line takes all of it: