Teton County, Idaho
Gutter cleaning, repair and new gutters in Driggs, ID
A normal year in Driggs brings about 25 inches of rain; on roughly 2 of its days, an inch or more comes down at once. The wettest season is spring (March to May), with about 7.6 inches; the driest is summer (June to August), with 5.1. That is about 15,500 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 USC00480140, 5 miBars to one scale; the longest is spring (March to May).
Counting days with an inch of rain or more, Driggs sits 23rd for heavy-rain days of the 90 places in Idaho on this site (1.5 a year). Its housing ranks among the newest by median year built of the 90 places in Idaho on this site (half built by 2001). By its first fall frost it sits 2nd earliest for the first fall frost of the 90 places in Idaho on this site (September 9).
When to clean gutters in Driggs
The first fall frost comes around September 9 in a typical year here, and the last spring frost around June 13 (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 Driggs rain
What overwhelms a gutter is a burst, not a season. In Driggs the five-minute rain expected about once in ten years falls at 3.76 inches an hour (NOAA Atlas 14 Volume 12). At that rate one 2-by-3-inch downspout drains about 1,910 square feet of roof and one 3-by-4-inch downspout about 3,830, 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.
Driggs averages about 113 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 Driggs
Half the homes in Driggs were built by 2001, 23% before 1980 (ACS 2020–2024). In a neighborhood that young, many houses still have the gutters the builder put up, and the usual call is a cleaning, a leak or guards rather than a full replacement.
57% of households own their home, and 47% of homes are detached houses, 10% townhouses. In a townhouse or HOA community, check who owns the gutters and what colors are allowed before booking.
Hiring in Idaho
Ask any contractor working in Driggs what Idaho requires of them for gutter work, and to show proof of insurance. Hiring a gutter contractor
Gutter work in Driggs
In a neighborhood with half its homes built by 2001, the usual calls are cleaning, guards and small repairs. The line takes all of it: