Brown County, Wisconsin
Gutter cleaning, repair and new gutters in Hobart, WI
Rain in Hobart adds up to about 32 inches in a normal year, with about 6 days that bring an inch or more. The wettest season is summer (June to August), with about 11.1 inches; the driest is winter (December to February), with 4.3. Off a 1,000-square-foot roof, that comes to about 19,600 gallons a year for the gutters to carry.
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NOAA station USC00473268, 2 miBars to one scale; the longest is summer (June to August).
Counting days with an inch of rain or more, Hobart sits among the fewest heavy-rain days of the 386 places in Wisconsin on this site (6.2 a year). Its housing ranks among the newest by median year built of the 387 places in Wisconsin on this site (half built by 2004). By first frost it falls near the middle of the 387 places in Wisconsin on this site (October 11).
When to clean gutters in Hobart
The first fall frost comes around October 11 in a typical year here, and the last spring frost around May 1 (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 Hobart rain
The short, hard downpour is what a gutter is sized for. In Hobart the five-minute rain expected about once in ten years falls at 6.37 inches an hour (NOAA Atlas 14 Volume 8). At that rate one 2-by-3-inch downspout drains about 1,130 square feet of roof and one 3-by-4-inch downspout about 2,260, 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.
Hobart averages about 61 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 Hobart
Half the homes in Hobart were built by 2004, 20% before 1980 (ACS 2020–2024). Most houses here are young enough to have their first gutters, so cleanings, guards and small leaks come up more than replacements.
64% of households own their home, and 64% of homes are detached houses, 5% 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 Hobart which license or registration they hold in Wisconsin, and for proof of liability insurance. Hiring a gutter contractor
Gutter work in Hobart
In a neighborhood with half its homes built by 2004, the usual calls are cleaning, guards and small repairs. The line takes all of it: