Maricopa County, Arizona
Gutter cleaning, repair and new gutters in Tempe, AZ
A normal year in Tempe brings about 9 inches of rain; on roughly 1 of its days, an inch or more comes down at once. The wettest season is winter (December to February), with about 3.1 inches; the driest is spring (March to May), with 1.4. Every 1,000 square feet of roof sheds about 5,500 gallons a year, and all of it goes through the gutters.
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NOAA station USC00028499, 3 miBars to one scale; the longest is winter (December to February).
For days with an inch of rain or more, Tempe ranks among the fewest heavy-rain days of the 119 places in Arizona on this site (1.2 a year). By the age of its homes it sits 15th oldest by median year built of the 120 places in Arizona on this site (half built by 1983). The first frost here ranks near the middle of the 91 places in Arizona on this site (December 5).
When to clean gutters in Tempe
The first fall frost comes around December 5 in a typical year here, and the last spring frost around February 13 (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 Tempe rain
Gutters are sized for the worst few minutes of a storm, not for the year. In Tempe the five-minute rain expected about once in ten years falls at 4.64 inches an hour (NOAA Atlas 14 Volume 1). At that rate one 2-by-3-inch downspout drains about 1,550 square feet of roof and one 3-by-4-inch downspout about 3,100, 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.
Tempe is dry by national standards, about 9 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 4.64 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 Tempe
Half the homes in Tempe were built by 1983, 43% 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.
42% of households own their home, and 39% of homes are detached houses, 10% townhouses. Where an HOA governs the exterior, its rules on gutter color and style apply before any order is placed.
Hiring in Arizona
Before hiring in Tempe, ask which Arizona license or registration the contractor holds and for a certificate of liability insurance. Hiring a gutter contractor
Gutter work in Tempe
With half the homes built by 1983, replacement gutters and the fascia behind them come up more often here than in newer suburbs. The line takes all of it: