Washington County, Utah
Gutter cleaning, repair and new gutters in Washington, UT
Washington gets about 9 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 winter (December to February), with about 3.5 inches. Off a 1,000-square-foot roof that is about 5,800 gallons a year, most of it in steady rain rather than downpours.
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NOAA station USC00427516, 7 miBars to one scale; the longest is winter (December to February).
By heavy-rain days, Washington falls among the fewest heavy-rain days of the 142 places in Utah on this site (0.6 a year). By the age of its homes it sits among the newest by median year built of the 142 places in Utah on this site (half built by 2007). The first frost here ranks among the latest for the first fall frost of the 142 places in Utah on this site (November 10).
When to clean gutters in Washington
The first fall frost comes around November 10 in a typical year here, and the last spring frost around March 14 (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 Washington rain
Gutters are sized for the worst few minutes of a storm, not for the year. In Washington the five-minute rain expected about once in ten years falls at 3.20 inches an hour (NOAA Atlas 14 Volume 1). At that rate one 2-by-3-inch downspout drains about 2,250 square feet of roof and one 3-by-4-inch downspout about 4,500, 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.
Washington 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 3.20 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 Washington
Half the homes in Washington were built by 2007, 10% 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.
75% of households own their home, and 75% of homes are detached houses, 7% townhouses. Where an HOA governs the exterior, its rules on gutter color and style apply before any order is placed.
Hiring in Utah
Before hiring in Washington, ask which Utah license or registration the contractor holds and for a certificate of liability insurance. Hiring a gutter contractor
Gutter work in Washington
In a neighborhood with half its homes built by 2007, the usual calls are cleaning, guards and small repairs. The line takes all of it: