Kenosha County, Wisconsin
Gutter cleaning, repair and new gutters in Genoa City, WI
Rain in Genoa City adds up to about 37 inches in a normal year, with about 9 days that bring an inch or more. The wettest season is summer (June to August), with about 13.0 inches; the driest is winter (December to February), with 4.8. Off a 1,000-square-foot roof, that comes to about 22,700 gallons a year for the gutters to carry.
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NOAA station USC00476420, 2 miBars to one scale; the longest is summer (June to August).
Counting days with an inch of rain or more, Genoa City sits 58th for heavy-rain days of the 386 places in Wisconsin on this site (8.9 a year). Its housing ranks among the newest by median year built of the 387 places in Wisconsin on this site (half built by 1992). By first frost it falls near the middle of the 387 places in Wisconsin on this site (October 13).
When to clean gutters in Genoa City
The first fall frost comes around October 13 in a typical year here, and the last spring frost around April 30 (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 Genoa City rain
The short, hard downpour is what a gutter is sized for. In Genoa City the five-minute rain expected about once in ten years falls at 7.00 inches an hour (NOAA Atlas 14 Volume 8). At that rate one 2-by-3-inch downspout drains about 1,030 square feet of roof and one 3-by-4-inch downspout about 2,060, 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.
Genoa City averages about 40 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 Genoa City
Half the homes in Genoa City were built by 1992, 42% 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.
94% of households own their home, and 78% of homes are detached houses, 15% townhouses. If an association maintains the exterior, the gutters may be its job rather than yours; check before calling.
Hiring in Wisconsin
Licensing for gutter work differs from state to state; ask a contractor in Genoa City which license or registration they hold in Wisconsin, and for proof of liability insurance. Hiring a gutter contractor
Gutter work in Genoa City
In a neighborhood with half its homes built by 1992, the usual calls are cleaning, guards and small repairs. The line takes all of it: