Latah County, Idaho
Gutter cleaning, repair and new gutters in Genesee, ID
Genesee gets about 28 inches of rain in a normal year, and on about 2 days a year an inch or more falls in a single day. The wettest season is winter (December to February), with about 9.4 inches; the driest is summer (June to August), with 3.1. Off a 1,000-square-foot roof, that comes to about 17,200 gallons a year for the gutters to carry.
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NOAA station USC00106152, 12 miBars to one scale; the longest is winter (December to February).
By heavy-rain days, Genesee falls 11th for heavy-rain days of the 90 places in Idaho on this site (2.3 a year). By the age of its homes it sits 15th oldest by median year built of the 90 places in Idaho on this site (half built by 1970). The first frost here ranks among the latest for the first fall frost of the 90 places in Idaho on this site (October 26).
When to clean gutters in Genesee
The first fall frost comes around October 26 in a typical year here, and the last spring frost around April 6 (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 Genesee rain
Gutters are sized for the worst few minutes of a storm, not for the year. In Genesee the five-minute rain expected about once in ten years falls at 3.65 inches an hour (NOAA Atlas 14 Volume 12). At that rate one 2-by-3-inch downspout drains about 1,970 square feet of roof and one 3-by-4-inch downspout about 3,950, 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 51 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.
The houses in Genesee
Half the homes in Genesee were built by 1970, 68% 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.
87% of households own their home, and 77% of homes are detached houses. Where an HOA governs the exterior, its rules on gutter color and style apply before any order is placed.
Hiring in Idaho
Before hiring in Genesee, ask which Idaho license or registration the contractor holds and for a certificate of liability insurance. Hiring a gutter contractor
Gutter work in Genesee
With half the homes built by 1970, replacement gutters and the fascia behind them come up more often here than in newer suburbs. The line takes all of it: