Walworth County, Wisconsin
Gutter cleaning, repair and new gutters in Lake Geneva, WI
A normal year in Lake Geneva brings about 37 inches of rain; on roughly 8 of its days, an inch or more comes down at once. The wettest season is summer (June to August), with about 11.8 inches; the driest is winter (December to February), with 6.1. Off a 1,000-square-foot roof, that comes to about 22,900 gallons a year for the gutters to carry.
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By heavy-rain days, Lake Geneva falls 96th for heavy-rain days of the 386 places in Wisconsin on this site (8.3 a year). Its housing ranks near the middle of the 387 places in Wisconsin on this site (half built by 1977). The first frost here ranks among the latest for the first fall frost of the 387 places in Wisconsin on this site (October 21).
When to clean gutters in Lake Geneva
The first fall frost comes around October 21 in a typical year here, and the last spring frost around April 25 (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 Lake Geneva rain
Gutters are sized for the worst few minutes of a storm, not for the year. In Lake Geneva the five-minute rain expected about once in ten years falls at 7.02 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 2,050, 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 40 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 Lake Geneva
Half the homes in Lake Geneva were built by 1977, 57% 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.
51% of households own their home, and 52% of homes are detached houses, 8% townhouses. Where an HOA governs the exterior, its rules on gutter color and style apply before any order is placed.
Hiring in Wisconsin
Before hiring in Lake Geneva, ask which Wisconsin license or registration the contractor holds and for a certificate of liability insurance. Hiring a gutter contractor
Gutter work in Lake Geneva
With half the homes built by 1977, replacement gutters and the fascia behind them come up more often here than in newer suburbs. The line takes all of it: