The short version. Gutters come clear between late October and January, once the needle drop is under way. Moss comes off on any dry day from October through May, and spring is when the results show fastest. Both are seasons rather than dates — there is more room in the year than most advice suggests.
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What Fircrest is working with
the median year a Fircrest detached home was built. 46% of them predate 1960.
Pierce County Assessor, Aug 2026of Fircrest’s 2,023 detached homes have a roof moss grows on.
Pierce County Assessor, Aug 2026through the gutters for every inch of rain that lands on a typical roof here.
Pierce County Assessor, Aug 2026outfalls carry the whole city’s stormwater into the Leach Creek holding basin. There is very little slack in the system.
City of Fircrest Public WorksA city platted in 1907 as Regents Park and built out mostly between 1950 and 1975, where over half the housing is now more than forty years old and the fir canopy it was named for is older still.
The Fircrest year
The two jobs
Gutter cleaning in Fircrest
When to book it, what a thorough visit includes, the 34,200 gallons a year a typical Fircrest roof sheds, and where the debris is supposed to go.
Read the page →Roof moss removal in Fircrest
Which stage your roof is at, what a treatment actually involves, how much product a Fircrest roof takes, and the license behind the work.
Read the page →The background, if you want it
These are county-wide and go deeper than the two pages above. None of them are required reading before you call.
- Does moss actually damage your roof? Moss, algae and lichen are three different things and only one of them matters. Includes a five-stage scale so you can place your own roof.
- When should you treat roof moss? A dry day between October and May, and why spring is when the results show fastest.
- Does your contractor need a license? Washington law treats your roof as “land,” which puts moss treatment under the Pesticide Application Act. Most people are surprised.
- Do gutter guards actually work? Yes — when the type matches your trees. The evidence for guards in conifer country, and how the right one gets chosen.
Where we work in Fircrest
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Sources
- Pierce County Assessor-Treasurer, improvement_builtas and tax_account extracts, August 2026, joined on parcel number — 2,023 Fircrest single-family detached homes, roof cover, year built and floor area.
- NOAA NCEI, U.S. Climate Normals 1991–2020, Tacoma No. 1 — 40.81 in annual, 6.50 in November.
- Reukema, D.L. (1964), USDA Forest Service Research Note PNW-14 — Douglas fir litterfall by month.
- City of Fircrest Public Works, Stormwater — 535 catch basins, 22 miles of pipe, 14 outfalls.
- City of Fircrest, Tree Topics newsletter, December 2022 — plugged storm drains as the leading cause of street flooding.
- City of Fircrest 2024 Comprehensive Plan, Housing Element — 62% of stock built 1950s–1970s.