Madera County, California
Gutter cleaning, repair and new gutters in Madera, CA
Madera gets about 11 inches of rain in a normal year, and a day with an inch or more comes once every 2 years or so. The wettest season is winter (December to February), with about 5.9 inches. Off a 1,000-square-foot roof that is about 6,700 gallons a year, most of it in steady rain rather than downpours.
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NOAA station USW00093242, 2 miBars to one scale; the longest is winter (December to February).
By heavy-rain days, Madera falls among the fewest heavy-rain days of the 939 places in California on this site (0.7 a year). By the age of its homes it sits among the newest by median year built of the 938 places in California on this site (half built by 1991). The first frost here ranks near the middle of the 507 places in California on this site (November 30).
When to clean gutters in Madera
The first fall frost comes around November 30 in a typical year here, and the last spring frost around February 12 (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 Madera rain
Gutters are sized for the worst few minutes of a storm, not for the year. In Madera the five-minute rain expected about once in ten years falls at 1.74 inches an hour (NOAA Atlas 14 Volume 6). At that rate one 2-by-3-inch downspout drains about 4,140 square feet of roof and one 3-by-4-inch downspout about 8,280, 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.
Madera is dry by national standards, about 11 inches in a normal year, but much of the rain that does come can arrive in short, hard storms: the five-minute downpour expected once in ten years still runs at 1.74 inches an hour. Where gutters are used here, the job is moving that burst away from the foundation, and keeping a dry season’s dust and debris from blocking the first storm.
The houses in Madera
Half the homes in Madera were built by 1991, 39% 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.
52% of households own their home, and 71% 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 Madera, 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 Madera
In a neighborhood with half its homes built by 1991, the usual calls are cleaning, guards and small repairs. The line takes all of it: