Milwaukee County, Wisconsin
Gutter cleaning, repair and new gutters in West Milwaukee, WI
West Milwaukee gets about 39 inches of rain in a normal year, and on about 9 days a year an inch or more falls in a single day. The wettest season is summer (June to August), with about 13.1 inches; the driest is winter (December to February), with 6.6. That is about 24,400 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 USC00479046, 2 miBars to one scale; the longest is summer (June to August).
Counting days with an inch of rain or more, West Milwaukee sits 67th for heavy-rain days of the 386 places in Wisconsin on this site (8.8 a year). Its housing ranks 4th oldest by median year built of the 387 places in Wisconsin on this site (half built by 1946). By its first fall frost it sits among the latest for the first fall frost of the 387 places in Wisconsin on this site (October 22).
When to clean gutters in West Milwaukee
The first fall frost comes around October 22 in a typical year here, and the last spring frost around April 26 (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 West Milwaukee rain
What overwhelms a gutter is a burst, not a season. In West Milwaukee the five-minute rain expected about once in ten years falls at 6.95 inches an hour (NOAA Atlas 14 Volume 8). At that rate one 2-by-3-inch downspout drains about 1,040 square feet of roof and one 3-by-4-inch downspout about 2,070, 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.
With about 52 inches of snow in a normal year here (NOAA normals), gutters carry ice as well as water. Ice dams start with heat from the house melting roof snow that refreezes at the edge (University of Minnesota Extension); the fix for the dam is in the attic, and the gutter’s part is to be hung strongly enough to take the weight.
The houses in West Milwaukee
Half the homes in West Milwaukee were built by 1946, 87% 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.
33% of households own their home, and 25% of homes are detached houses, 3% townhouses. In a townhouse or HOA community, check who owns the gutters and what colors are allowed before booking.
Hiring in Wisconsin
Ask any contractor working in West Milwaukee what Wisconsin requires of them for gutter work, and to show proof of insurance. Hiring a gutter contractor
Gutter work in West Milwaukee
With half the homes built by 1946, replacement gutters and the fascia behind them come up more often here than in newer suburbs. The line takes all of it: