Madera County, California
Gutter cleaning, repair and new gutters in Parkwood, CA
Parkwood gets about 11 inches of rain in a normal year, and on about 2 days a year an inch or more falls in a single day. The wettest season is winter (December to February), with about 6.1 inches; the driest is summer (June to August), with 0.2. Off a 1,000-square-foot roof, that comes to about 7,000 gallons a year for the gutters to carry.
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NOAA station USC00045233, 2 miBars to one scale; the longest is winter (December to February).
By heavy-rain days, Parkwood falls among the fewest heavy-rain days of the 939 places in California on this site (1.6 a year). Its housing ranks near the middle of the 938 places in California on this site (half built by 1980). By first frost it falls near the middle of the 507 places in California on this site (November 27).
When to clean gutters in Parkwood
The first fall frost comes around November 27 in a typical year here, and the last spring frost around February 18 (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 Parkwood rain
Gutters are sized for the worst few minutes of a storm, not for the year. In Parkwood the five-minute rain expected about once in ten years falls at 1.73 inches an hour (NOAA Atlas 14 Volume 6). At that rate one 2-by-3-inch downspout drains about 4,160 square feet of roof and one 3-by-4-inch downspout about 8,320, 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.
Parkwood 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 1.73 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 Parkwood
Half the homes in Parkwood were built by 1980, 49% 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.
61% of households own their home, and 90% of homes are detached houses. If an association maintains the exterior, the gutters may be its job rather than yours; check before calling.
Hiring in California
Before hiring in Parkwood, 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 Parkwood
With half the homes built by 1980, replacement gutters and the fascia behind them come up more often here than in newer suburbs. The line takes all of it: