Lincoln County, Wyoming
Gutter cleaning, repair and new gutters in Star Valley Ranch, WY
Star Valley Ranch gets about 25 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 7.6 inches. Off a 1,000-square-foot roof that is about 15,700 gallons a year, most of it in steady rain rather than downpours.
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NOAA station USC00480603, 8 miBars to one scale; the longest is spring (March to May).
By heavy-rain days, Star Valley Ranch falls among the fewest heavy-rain days of the 31 places in Wyoming on this site (0.5 a year). By the age of its homes it sits among the newest by median year built of the 31 places in Wyoming on this site (half built by 1998). The first frost here ranks 7th earliest for the first fall frost of the 31 places in Wyoming on this site (September 1).
When to clean gutters in Star Valley Ranch
The first fall frost comes around September 1 in a typical year here, and the last spring frost around June 20 (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 Star Valley Ranch rain
Gutters are sized for the worst few minutes of a storm, not for the year. In Star Valley Ranch 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.
Star Valley Ranch averages about 88 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 Star Valley Ranch
Half the homes in Star Valley Ranch were built by 1998, 9% before 1980 (ACS 2020–2024). With homes this new, the gutters are usually the builder’s originals; keeping them clear matters more than replacing them.
93% of households own their home, and 98% of homes are detached houses. Where an HOA governs the exterior, its rules on gutter color and style apply before any order is placed.
Hiring in Wyoming
Before hiring in Star Valley Ranch, ask which Wyoming license or registration the contractor holds and for a certificate of liability insurance. Hiring a gutter contractor
Gutter work in Star Valley Ranch
In a neighborhood with half its homes built by 1998, the usual calls are cleaning, guards and small repairs. The line takes all of it: