El Dorado County, California
Gutter cleaning, repair and new gutters in El Dorado Hills, CA
Rain in El Dorado Hills adds up to about 21 inches in a normal year, with about 6 days that bring an inch or more. The wettest season is winter (December to February), with about 11.8 inches; the driest is summer (June to August), with 0.3. That is about 13,000 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 USC00047370, 6 miBars to one scale; the longest is winter (December to February).
For days with an inch of rain or more, El Dorado Hills ranks near the middle of the 939 places in California on this site (5.5 a year). By house age it falls among the newest by median year built of the 938 places in California on this site (half built by 2002). By its first fall frost it sits 116th earliest for the first fall frost of the 507 places in California on this site (November 21).
When to clean gutters in El Dorado Hills
The first fall frost comes around November 21 in a typical year here, and the last spring frost around March 31 (median dates, NOAA normals). Plan the fall visit for after the frost, when the trees over the roof have finished dropping, and the spring visit for after the pollen and catkins.
When to clean gutters explains how the trees over a roof change the schedule.
Gutter and downspout size for El Dorado Hills rain
What overwhelms a gutter is a burst, not a season. In El Dorado Hills the five-minute rain expected about once in ten years falls at 2.65 inches an hour (NOAA Atlas 14 Volume 6). At that rate one 2-by-3-inch downspout drains about 2,720 square feet of roof and one 3-by-4-inch downspout about 5,430, 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 El Dorado Hills
Half the homes in El Dorado Hills were built by 2002, 12% 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.
88% of households own their home, and 90% of homes are detached houses, 2% townhouses. In a townhouse or HOA community, check who owns the gutters and what colors are allowed before booking.
Hiring in California
Ask any contractor working in El Dorado Hills what California requires of them for gutter work, and to show proof of insurance. Hiring a gutter contractor
In California’s fire hazard severity zones, the 2025 Wildland-Urban Interface Code (in force January 1, 2026) requires gutters and downspouts of noncombustible material, and gutters fitted with an approved means to keep leaves and debris from collecting (section 504.4). (2025 California Wildland-Urban Interface Code, Chapter 5 (UpCodes))
Gutter work in El Dorado Hills
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: