Clinton County, Michigan
Gutter cleaning, repair and new gutters in DeWitt, MI
Rain in DeWitt adds up to about 33 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 10.2 inches; the driest is winter (December to February), with 5.7. That is about 20,700 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 USW00014836, 4 miBars to one scale; the longest is summer (June to August).
Counting days with an inch of rain or more, DeWitt sits near the middle of the 405 places in Michigan on this site (6.0 a year). Its housing ranks among the newest by median year built of the 406 places in Michigan on this site (half built by 1986). By its first fall frost it sits near the middle of the 406 places in Michigan on this site (October 13).
When to clean gutters in DeWitt
The first fall frost comes around October 13 in a typical year here, and the last spring frost around May 1 (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 DeWitt rain
What overwhelms a gutter is a burst, not a season. In DeWitt the five-minute rain expected about once in ten years falls at 5.95 inches an hour (NOAA Atlas 14 Volume 8). At that rate one 2-by-3-inch downspout drains about 1,210 square feet of roof and one 3-by-4-inch downspout about 2,420, 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.
DeWitt averages about 50 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 DeWitt
Half the homes in DeWitt were built by 1986, 40% before 1980 (ACS 2020–2024). In a neighborhood that age, many houses are on their second set of gutters or due for one, and the fascia board behind them is worth checking at the same visit. 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.
79% of households own their home, and 76% of homes are detached houses, 7% townhouses. In a townhouse or HOA community, check who owns the gutters and what colors are allowed before booking.
Hiring in Michigan
Ask any contractor working in DeWitt what Michigan requires of them for gutter work, and to show proof of insurance. Hiring a gutter contractor
Gutter work in DeWitt
In a neighborhood with half its homes built by 1986, the usual calls are cleaning, guards and small repairs. The line takes all of it: