Crawford County, Iowa
Gutter cleaning, repair and new gutters in Dunlap, IA
Dunlap gets about 34 inches of rain in a normal year, and on about 8 days a year an inch or more falls in a single day. The wettest season is summer (June to August), with about 13.6 inches; the driest is winter (December to February), with 3.1. Off a 1,000-square-foot roof, that comes to about 21,300 gallons a year for the gutters to carry.
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NOAA station USC00134894, 18 miBars to one scale; the longest is summer (June to August).
By heavy-rain days, Dunlap falls among the fewest heavy-rain days of the 290 places in Iowa on this site (8.2 a year). By house age it falls 11th oldest by median year built of the 290 places in Iowa on this site (half built by 1943). By first frost it falls near the middle of the 290 places in Iowa on this site (October 8).
When to clean gutters in Dunlap
The first fall frost comes around October 8 in a typical year here, and the last spring frost around April 29 (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 Dunlap rain
Gutters are sized for the worst few minutes of a storm, not for the year. In Dunlap the five-minute rain expected about once in ten years falls at 7.61 inches an hour (NOAA Atlas 14 Volume 8). At that rate one 2-by-3-inch downspout drains about 950 square feet of roof and one 3-by-4-inch downspout about 1,890, 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.
The houses in Dunlap
Half the homes in Dunlap were built by 1943, 79% before 1980 (ACS 2020–2024). At that age a gutter has seen decades of leaves and storms, and the fascia it hangs from has too. 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.
69% of households own their home, and 83% of homes are detached houses, 2% townhouses. If an association maintains the exterior, the gutters may be its job rather than yours; check before calling.
Hiring in Iowa
Before hiring in Dunlap, ask which Iowa license or registration the contractor holds and for a certificate of liability insurance. Hiring a gutter contractor
Gutter work in Dunlap
With half the homes built by 1943, replacement gutters and the fascia behind them come up more often here than in newer suburbs. The line takes all of it: