Madison County, Idaho
Gutter cleaning, repair and new gutters in Rexburg, ID
Rexburg gets about 13 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 spring (March to May), with about 3.9 inches. Off a 1,000-square-foot roof that is about 7,800 gallons a year, most of it in steady rain rather than downpours.
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NOAA station USC00107644, 1 miBars to one scale; the longest is spring (March to May).
Counting days with an inch of rain or more, Rexburg sits near the middle of the 90 places in Idaho on this site (0.6 a year). Its housing ranks among the newest by median year built of the 90 places in Idaho on this site (half built by 2005). By its first fall frost it sits 17th earliest for the first fall frost of the 90 places in Idaho on this site (September 24).
When to clean gutters in Rexburg
The first fall frost comes around September 24 in a typical year here, and the last spring frost around May 12 (median dates, NOAA normals). Booking the fall cleaning after the first frost, once the trees over the roof are bare, catches the season’s drop in one visit; the spring cleaning comes after the pollen and catkins are down.
When to clean gutters explains how the trees over a roof change the schedule.
Gutter and downspout size for Rexburg rain
What overwhelms a gutter is a burst, not a season. In Rexburg the five-minute rain expected about once in ten years falls at 3.95 inches an hour (NOAA Atlas 14 Volume 12). At that rate one 2-by-3-inch downspout drains about 1,820 square feet of roof and one 3-by-4-inch downspout about 3,650, 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.
With about 70 inches of snow in a normal year here (NOAA normals), gutters carry ice as well as water. Ice dams start with heat from the house melting roof snow that refreezes at the edge (University of Minnesota Extension); the fix for the dam is in the attic, and the gutter’s part is to be hung strongly enough to take the weight.
Rexburg is dry by national standards, about 13 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 3.95 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 Rexburg
Half the homes in Rexburg were built by 2005, 20% before 1980 (ACS 2020–2024). In a neighborhood that young, many houses still have the gutters the builder put up, and the usual call is a cleaning, a leak or guards rather than a full replacement.
24% of households own their home, and 22% of homes are detached houses, 5% townhouses. In a townhouse or HOA community, check who owns the gutters and what colors are allowed before booking.
Hiring in Idaho
Ask any contractor working in Rexburg what Idaho requires of them for gutter work, and to show proof of insurance. Hiring a gutter contractor
Gutter work in Rexburg
In a neighborhood with half its homes built by 2005, the usual calls are cleaning, guards and small repairs. The line takes all of it: