Wood County, Wisconsin
Gutter cleaning, repair and new gutters in Port Edwards, WI
A normal year in Port Edwards brings about 31 inches of rain; on roughly 6 of its days, an inch or more comes down at once. The wettest season is summer (June to August), with about 12.0 inches; the driest is winter (December to February), with 3.1. Off a 1,000-square-foot roof, that comes to about 19,400 gallons a year for the gutters to carry.
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NOAA station USW00004826, 1 miBars to one scale; the longest is summer (June to August).
By heavy-rain days, Port Edwards falls among the fewest heavy-rain days of the 386 places in Wisconsin on this site (6.0 a year). By house age it falls 29th oldest by median year built of the 387 places in Wisconsin on this site (half built by 1958). By first frost it falls 21st earliest for the first fall frost of the 387 places in Wisconsin on this site (October 1).
When to clean gutters in Port Edwards
The first fall frost comes around October 1 in a typical year here, and the last spring frost around May 8 (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 Port Edwards rain
Gutters are sized for the worst few minutes of a storm, not for the year. In Port Edwards the five-minute rain expected about once in ten years falls at 6.89 inches an hour (NOAA Atlas 14 Volume 8). At that rate one 2-by-3-inch downspout drains about 1,040 square feet of roof and one 3-by-4-inch downspout about 2,090, 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.
Port Edwards averages about 48 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 Port Edwards
Half the homes in Port Edwards were built by 1958, 82% 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.
76% of households own their home, and 86% of homes are detached houses, 2% townhouses. If an association maintains the exterior, the gutters may be its job rather than yours; check before calling.
Hiring in Wisconsin
Before hiring in Port Edwards, ask which Wisconsin license or registration the contractor holds and for a certificate of liability insurance. Hiring a gutter contractor
Gutter work in Port Edwards
With half the homes built by 1958, replacement gutters and the fascia behind them come up more often here than in newer suburbs. The line takes all of it: