Lincoln County, Idaho
Gutter cleaning, repair and new gutters in Shoshone, ID
Shoshone gets about 10 inches of rain in a normal year, and a day with an inch or more comes once every 3 years or so. The wettest season is winter (December to February), with about 4.2 inches. Off a 1,000-square-foot roof that is about 6,500 gallons a year, most of it in steady rain rather than downpours.
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NOAA station USC00108380, 1 miBars to one scale; the longest is winter (December to February).
By heavy-rain days, Shoshone falls near the middle of the 90 places in Idaho on this site (0.3 a year). By the age of its homes it sits 7th oldest by median year built of the 90 places in Idaho on this site (half built by 1964). The first frost here ranks among the latest for the first fall frost of the 90 places in Idaho on this site (October 16).
When to clean gutters in Shoshone
The first fall frost comes around October 16 in a typical year here, and the last spring frost around April 24 (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 Shoshone rain
Gutters are sized for the worst few minutes of a storm, not for the year. In Shoshone the five-minute rain expected about once in ten years falls at 3.68 inches an hour (NOAA Atlas 14 Volume 12). At that rate one 2-by-3-inch downspout drains about 1,960 square feet of roof and one 3-by-4-inch downspout about 3,910, 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.
Shoshone is dry by national standards, about 10 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 3.68 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 Shoshone
Half the homes in Shoshone were built by 1964, 69% 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.
69% of households own their home, and 88% of homes are detached houses, 1% townhouses. Where an HOA governs the exterior, its rules on gutter color and style apply before any order is placed.
Hiring in Idaho
Before hiring in Shoshone, ask which Idaho license or registration the contractor holds and for a certificate of liability insurance. Hiring a gutter contractor
Gutter work in Shoshone
With half the homes built by 1964, replacement gutters and the fascia behind them come up more often here than in newer suburbs. The line takes all of it: