Clackamas County, Oregon
Gutter cleaning, repair and new gutters in Portland, OR
Portland gets about 44 inches of rain in a normal year, and on about 6 days a year an inch or more falls in a single day. The wettest season is winter (December to February), with about 18.4 inches; the driest is summer (June to August), with 2.5. Off a 1,000-square-foot roof, that comes to about 27,300 gallons a year for the gutters to carry.
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NOAA station USC00356749, 2 miBars to one scale; the longest is winter (December to February).
By heavy-rain days, Portland falls near the middle of the 193 places in Oregon on this site (6.4 a year). Its housing ranks 15th oldest by median year built of the 193 places in Oregon on this site (half built by 1966). The first frost here ranks among the latest for the first fall frost of the 188 places in Oregon on this site (December 1).
When to clean gutters in Portland
The first fall frost comes around December 1 in a typical year here, and the last spring frost around February 25 (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.
Weather and gutters in Portland
NOAA Atlas 14 does not cover Washington and Oregon, so there is no current federal estimate of the short downpour for Portland; NOAA plans published Atlas 15 estimates for the lower 48 states no earlier than September 2027. Here gutters are sized from the roof and the local building department’s design rate.
The houses in Portland
Half the homes in Portland were built by 1966, 64% 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.
53% of households own their home, and 53% 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 Oregon
Before hiring in Portland, ask which Oregon license or registration the contractor holds and for a certificate of liability insurance. Hiring a gutter contractor
Gutter work in Portland
With half the homes built by 1966, replacement gutters and the fascia behind them come up more often here than in newer suburbs. The line takes all of it: