Valley County, Idaho
Gutter cleaning, repair and new gutters in McCall, ID
McCall gets about 23 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 7.6 inches. Off a 1,000-square-foot roof that is about 14,300 gallons a year, most of it in steady rain rather than downpours.
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NOAA station USW00094182, 1 miBars to one scale; the longest is winter (December to February).
For days with an inch of rain or more, McCall ranks near the middle of the 90 places in Idaho on this site (0.8 a year). Its housing ranks near the middle of the 90 places in Idaho on this site (half built by 1993). The first frost here ranks 5th earliest for the first fall frost of the 90 places in Idaho on this site (September 10).
When to clean gutters in McCall
The first fall frost comes around September 10 in a typical year here, and the last spring frost around June 10 (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 McCall rain
Gutters are sized for the worst few minutes of a storm, not for the year. In McCall the five-minute rain expected about once in ten years falls at 3.82 inches an hour (NOAA Atlas 14 Volume 12). At that rate one 2-by-3-inch downspout drains about 1,880 square feet of roof and one 3-by-4-inch downspout about 3,770, 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.
McCall averages about 132 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 McCall
Half the homes in McCall were built by 1993, 28% 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.
79% of households own their home, and 74% 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 Idaho
Before hiring in McCall, ask which Idaho license or registration the contractor holds and for a certificate of liability insurance. Hiring a gutter contractor
Gutter work in McCall
In a neighborhood with half its homes built by 1993, the usual calls are cleaning, guards and small repairs. The line takes all of it: