Houston County, Minnesota
Gutter cleaning, repair and new gutters in La Crescent, MN
Rain in La Crescent adds up to about 38 inches in a normal year, with about 10 days that bring an inch or more. The wettest season is summer (June to August), with about 14.0 inches; the driest is winter (December to February), with 3.8. Off a 1,000-square-foot roof, that comes to about 23,300 gallons a year for the gutters to carry.
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NOAA station USC00214418, 3 miBars to one scale; the longest is summer (June to August).
By heavy-rain days, La Crescent falls 3rd for heavy-rain days of the 334 places in Minnesota on this site (9.6 a year). Its housing ranks near the middle of the 335 places in Minnesota on this site (half built by 1973). The first frost here ranks among the latest for the first fall frost of the 336 places in Minnesota on this site (October 28).
When to clean gutters in La Crescent
The first fall frost comes around October 28 in a typical year here, and the last spring frost around April 15 (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 La Crescent rain
Gutters are sized for the worst few minutes of a storm, not for the year. In La Crescent the five-minute rain expected about once in ten years falls at 7.86 inches an hour (NOAA Atlas 14 Volume 8). At that rate one 2-by-3-inch downspout drains about 920 square feet of roof and one 3-by-4-inch downspout about 1,830, 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.
La Crescent averages about 38 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 La Crescent
Half the homes in La Crescent were built by 1973, 61% 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.
88% of households own their home, and 80% 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 Minnesota
Before hiring in La Crescent, ask which Minnesota license or registration the contractor holds and for a certificate of liability insurance. Hiring a gutter contractor
Gutter work in La Crescent
With half the homes built by 1973, replacement gutters and the fascia behind them come up more often here than in newer suburbs. The line takes all of it: