Washoe County, Nevada
Gutter cleaning, repair and new gutters in Washoe Valley, NV
Washoe Valley gets about 55 inches of rain in a normal year, and on about 16 days a year an inch or more falls in a single day. The wettest season is winter (December to February), with about 29.2 inches; the driest is summer (June to August), with 1.8. Every 1,000 square feet of roof sheds about 33,800 gallons a year, and all of it goes through the gutters.
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For days with an inch of rain or more, Washoe Valley ranks 1st for heavy-rain days of the 54 places in Nevada on this site (16.2 a year). By house age it falls 7th oldest by median year built of the 54 places in Nevada on this site (half built by 1979). The first frost here ranks near the middle of the 52 places in Nevada on this site (October 17).
When to clean gutters in Washoe Valley
The first fall frost comes around October 17 in a typical year here, and the last spring frost around May 12 (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 Washoe Valley rain
Gutters are sized for the worst few minutes of a storm, not for the year. In Washoe Valley the five-minute rain expected about once in ten years falls at 2.62 inches an hour (NOAA Atlas 14 Volume 1). At that rate one 2-by-3-inch downspout drains about 2,750 square feet of roof and one 3-by-4-inch downspout about 5,500, 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.
Washoe Valley averages about 46 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 Washoe Valley
Half the homes in Washoe Valley were built by 1979, 55% 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.
95% of households own their home, and 87% 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 Nevada
Before hiring in Washoe Valley, ask which Nevada license or registration the contractor holds and for a certificate of liability insurance. Hiring a gutter contractor
Gutter work in Washoe Valley
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: