Door County, Wisconsin
Gutter cleaning, repair and new gutters in Sister Bay, WI
Sister Bay gets about 31 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 summer (June to August), with about 9.4 inches; the driest is winter (December to February), with 4.5. Off a 1,000-square-foot roof, that comes to about 19,200 gallons a year for the gutters to carry.
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NOAA station USC00472626, 2 miBars to one scale; the longest is summer (June to August).
By heavy-rain days, Sister Bay falls among the fewest heavy-rain days of the 386 places in Wisconsin on this site (6.4 a year). By the age of its homes it sits among the newest by median year built of the 387 places in Wisconsin on this site (half built by 1993). The first frost here ranks among the latest for the first fall frost of the 387 places in Wisconsin on this site (October 18).
When to clean gutters in Sister Bay
The first fall frost comes around October 18 in a typical year here, and the last spring frost around May 14 (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 Sister Bay rain
Gutters are sized for the worst few minutes of a storm, not for the year. In Sister Bay the five-minute rain expected about once in ten years falls at 5.93 inches an hour (NOAA Atlas 14 Volume 8). At that rate one 2-by-3-inch downspout drains about 1,210 square feet of roof and one 3-by-4-inch downspout about 2,430, 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.
Sister Bay averages about 62 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 Sister Bay
Half the homes in Sister Bay were built by 1993, 25% 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.
47% of households own their home, and 35% of homes are detached houses, 8% townhouses. Where an HOA governs the exterior, its rules on gutter color and style apply before any order is placed.
Hiring in Wisconsin
Before hiring in Sister Bay, ask which Wisconsin license or registration the contractor holds and for a certificate of liability insurance. Hiring a gutter contractor
Gutter work in Sister Bay
In a neighborhood with half its homes built by 1993, the usual calls are cleaning, guards and small repairs. The line takes all of it: