Placer County, California
Gutter cleaning, repair and new gutters in Kings Beach, CA
Kings Beach gets about 55 inches of rain in a normal year, and on about 16 days a year an inch or more falls in a single day. The wettest season is winter (December to February), with about 29.2 inches; the driest is summer (June to August), with 1.8. Every 1,000 square feet of roof sheds about 33,800 gallons a year, and all of it goes through the gutters.
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For days with an inch of rain or more, Kings Beach ranks 32nd for heavy-rain days of the 939 places in California on this site (16.2 a year). By the age of its homes it sits near the middle of the 938 places in California on this site (half built by 1974). The first frost here ranks 27th earliest for the first fall frost of the 507 places in California on this site (October 13).
When to clean gutters in Kings Beach
The first fall frost comes around October 13 in a typical year here, and the last spring frost around May 17 (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 Kings Beach rain
What overwhelms a gutter is a burst, not a season. In Kings Beach the five-minute rain expected about once in ten years falls at 3.34 inches an hour (NOAA Atlas 14 Volume 6). At that rate one 2-by-3-inch downspout drains about 2,160 square feet of roof and one 3-by-4-inch downspout about 4,310, 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 179 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 Kings Beach
Half the homes in Kings Beach were built by 1974, 66% 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.
58% of households own their home, and 59% of homes are detached houses, 3% townhouses. Where an HOA governs the exterior, its rules on gutter color and style apply before any order is placed.
Hiring in California
Before hiring in Kings Beach, ask which California license or registration the contractor holds and for a certificate of liability 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 Kings Beach
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: