Caribou County, Idaho
Gutter cleaning, repair and new gutters in Soda Springs, ID
Soda Springs gets about 16 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 spring (March to May), with about 5.1 inches. Off a 1,000-square-foot roof that is about 9,700 gallons a year, most of it in steady rain rather than downpours.
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NOAA station USC00108535, 0 miBars to one scale; the longest is spring (March to May).
For days with an inch of rain or more, Soda Springs ranks near the middle of the 90 places in Idaho on this site (0.4 a year). By the age of its homes it sits 22nd oldest by median year built of the 90 places in Idaho on this site (half built by 1972). By its first fall frost it sits 7th earliest for the first fall frost of the 90 places in Idaho on this site (September 17).
When to clean gutters in Soda Springs
The first fall frost comes around September 17 in a typical year here, and the last spring frost around May 29 (median dates, NOAA normals). Plan the fall visit for after the frost, when the trees over the roof have finished dropping, and the spring visit for after the pollen and catkins.
When to clean gutters explains how the trees over a roof change the schedule.
Gutter and downspout size for Soda Springs rain
What overwhelms a gutter is a burst, not a season. In Soda Springs the five-minute rain expected about once in ten years falls at 4.08 inches an hour (NOAA Atlas 14 Volume 12). At that rate one 2-by-3-inch downspout drains about 1,760 square feet of roof and one 3-by-4-inch downspout about 3,530, 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 91 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.
The houses in Soda Springs
Half the homes in Soda Springs were built by 1972, 72% before 1980 (ACS 2020–2024). In a neighborhood that age, many houses are on their second set of gutters or due for one, and the fascia board behind them is worth checking at the same visit. 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.
75% of households own their home, and 68% of homes are detached houses, 1% 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 Soda Springs what Idaho requires of them for gutter work, and to show proof of insurance. Hiring a gutter contractor
Gutter work in Soda Springs
With half the homes built by 1972, replacement gutters and the fascia behind them come up more often here than in newer suburbs. The line takes all of it: