Fremont County, Colorado
Gutter cleaning, repair and new gutters in Florence, CO
A normal year in Florence brings about 14 inches of rain; on roughly 1 of its days, an inch or more comes down at once. The wettest season is summer (June to August), with about 5.2 inches; the driest is winter (December to February), with 1.6. Off a 1,000-square-foot roof, that comes to about 8,500 gallons a year for the gutters to carry.
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NOAA station USC00051294, 9 miBars to one scale; the longest is summer (June to August).
Counting days with an inch of rain or more, Florence sits among the fewest heavy-rain days of the 182 places in Colorado on this site (1.2 a year). By house age it falls 21st oldest by median year built of the 181 places in Colorado on this site (half built by 1974). By first frost it falls near the middle of the 182 places in Colorado on this site (October 7).
When to clean gutters in Florence
The first fall frost comes around October 7 in a typical year here, and the last spring frost around May 4 (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 Florence rain
The short, hard downpour is what a gutter is sized for. In Florence the five-minute rain expected about once in ten years falls at 4.88 inches an hour (NOAA Atlas 14 Volume 8). At that rate one 2-by-3-inch downspout drains about 1,480 square feet of roof and one 3-by-4-inch downspout about 2,950, 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.
With about 38 inches of snow in a normal year here (NOAA normals), gutters carry ice as well as water. Ice dams start with heat from the house melting roof snow that refreezes at the edge (University of Minnesota Extension); the fix for the dam is in the attic, and the gutter’s part is to be hung strongly enough to take the weight.
Florence is dry by national standards, about 14 inches in a normal year, but much of the rain that does come can arrive in short, hard storms: the five-minute downpour expected once in ten years still runs at 4.88 inches an hour. Where gutters are used here, the job is moving that burst away from the foundation, and keeping a dry season’s dust and debris from blocking the first storm.
The houses in Florence
Half the homes in Florence were built by 1974, 65% 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.
68% of households own their home, and 62% of homes are detached houses, 3% townhouses. If an association maintains the exterior, the gutters may be its job rather than yours; check before calling.
Hiring in Colorado
Licensing for gutter work differs from state to state; ask a contractor in Florence which license or registration they hold in Colorado, and for proof of liability insurance. Hiring a gutter contractor
Gutter work in Florence
With half the homes built by 1974, replacement gutters and the fascia behind them come up more often here than in newer suburbs. The line takes all of it: