Maricopa County, Arizona
Gutter cleaning, repair and new gutters in Phoenix, AZ
Rain in Phoenix adds up to about 9 inches in a normal year, with about 1 days that bring an inch or more. The wettest season is winter (December to February), with about 3.2 inches; the driest is spring (March to May), with 1.6. Off a 1,000-square-foot roof, that comes to about 5,500 gallons a year for the gutters to carry.
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NOAA station USW00003184, 8 miBars to one scale; the longest is winter (December to February).
By heavy-rain days, Phoenix falls among the fewest heavy-rain days of the 119 places in Arizona on this site (1.2 a year). Its housing ranks 17th oldest by median year built of the 120 places in Arizona on this site (half built by 1984).
When to clean gutters in Phoenix
Frost is rare in Phoenix, and in many years there is none (NOAA normals). With no hard freeze to strip the trees, the fall cleaning follows the leaf drop itself; book it once the trees over the roof are bare, and plan a second visit in spring.
When to clean gutters explains how the trees over a roof change the schedule.
Gutter and downspout size for Phoenix rain
Gutters are sized for the worst few minutes of a storm, not for the year. In Phoenix the five-minute rain expected about once in ten years falls at 5.18 inches an hour (NOAA Atlas 14 Volume 1). At that rate one 2-by-3-inch downspout drains about 1,390 square feet of roof and one 3-by-4-inch downspout about 2,780, 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.
Phoenix is dry by national standards, about 9 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 5.18 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 Phoenix
Half the homes in Phoenix were built by 1984, 42% 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.
57% of households own their home, and 60% of homes are detached houses, 5% townhouses. Where an HOA governs the exterior, its rules on gutter color and style apply before any order is placed.
Hiring in Arizona
Before hiring in Phoenix, ask which Arizona license or registration the contractor holds and for a certificate of liability insurance. Hiring a gutter contractor
Gutter work in Phoenix
With half the homes built by 1984, replacement gutters and the fascia behind them come up more often here than in newer suburbs. The line takes all of it: