Pima County, Arizona
Gutter cleaning, repair and new gutters in Tucson, AZ
Tucson gets about 11 inches of rain in a normal year, and on about 2 days a year an inch or more falls in a single day. The wettest season is summer (June to August), with about 4.4 inches; the driest is spring (March to May), with 1.0. That is about 6,600 gallons a year off each 1,000 square feet of roof, every drop of it through a gutter and a downspout.
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NOAA station USW00023160, 5 miBars to one scale; the longest is summer (June to August).
Counting days with an inch of rain or more, Tucson sits near the middle of the 119 places in Arizona on this site (1.7 a year). By house age it falls 12th oldest by median year built of the 120 places in Arizona on this site (half built by 1979). By its first fall frost it sits among the latest for the first fall frost of the 91 places in Arizona on this site (December 9).
When to clean gutters in Tucson
The first fall frost comes around December 9 in a typical year here, and the last spring frost around February 5 (median dates, NOAA normals). Booking the fall cleaning after the first frost, once the trees over the roof are bare, catches the season’s drop in one visit; the spring cleaning comes after the pollen and catkins are down.
When to clean gutters explains how the trees over a roof change the schedule.
Gutter and downspout size for Tucson rain
What overwhelms a gutter is a burst, not a season. In Tucson the five-minute rain expected about once in ten years falls at 6.16 inches an hour (NOAA Atlas 14 Volume 1). At that rate one 2-by-3-inch downspout drains about 1,170 square feet of roof and one 3-by-4-inch downspout about 2,340, 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.
Tucson is dry by national standards, about 11 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 6.16 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 Tucson
Half the homes in Tucson were built by 1979, 53% 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.
52% of households own their home, and 52% of homes are detached houses, 8% townhouses. In a townhouse or HOA community, check who owns the gutters and what colors are allowed before booking.
Hiring in Arizona
Ask any contractor working in Tucson what Arizona requires of them for gutter work, and to show proof of insurance. Hiring a gutter contractor
Gutter work in Tucson
With half the homes built by 1979, replacement gutters and the fascia behind them come up more often here than in newer suburbs. The line takes all of it: