Anoka County, Minnesota
Gutter cleaning, repair and new gutters in St. Francis, MN
A normal year in St. Francis brings about 42 inches of rain; on roughly 12 of its days, an inch or more comes down at once. The wettest season is summer (June to August), with about 17.7 inches; the driest is winter (December to February), with 3.4. Every 1,000 square feet of roof sheds about 26,100 gallons a year, and all of it goes through the gutters.
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NOAA station USC00217309, 2 miBars to one scale; the longest is summer (June to August).
For days with an inch of rain or more, St. Francis ranks 1st for heavy-rain days of the 334 places in Minnesota on this site (11.5 a year). By house age it falls among the newest by median year built of the 335 places in Minnesota on this site (half built by 1999). The first frost here ranks near the middle of the 336 places in Minnesota on this site (October 7).
When to clean gutters in St. Francis
The first fall frost comes around October 7 in a typical year here, and the last spring frost around May 1 (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 St. Francis rain
What overwhelms a gutter is a burst, not a season. In St. Francis the five-minute rain expected about once in ten years falls at 7.45 inches an hour (NOAA Atlas 14 Volume 8). At that rate one 2-by-3-inch downspout drains about 970 square feet of roof and one 3-by-4-inch downspout about 1,930, 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.
St. Francis averages about 56 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 St. Francis
Half the homes in St. Francis were built by 1999, 18% 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.
81% of households own their home, and 70% of homes are detached houses, 13% townhouses. Where an HOA governs the exterior, its rules on gutter color and style apply before any order is placed.
Hiring in Minnesota
Ask any contractor working in St. Francis what Minnesota requires of them for gutter work, and to show proof of insurance. Hiring a gutter contractor
Gutter work in St. Francis
In a neighborhood with half its homes built by 1999, the usual calls are cleaning, guards and small repairs. The line takes all of it: