Brantley County, Georgia · Nahunta
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Pipes freeze in Brantley County on about 0 nights a year, mostly midwinter. Older homes, 8% of the stock here, are most at risk.
Basements flood here mostly in January. Brantley County averages 10.6 days a year with an inch of rain or more.
Backups often follow heavy rain, which Brantley County gets about 10.6 days a year, when storm water overloads sewer mains and pushes up through the lowest drain in the house.
Roof leaks here come from summer downpours. Most show up as ceiling stains in the room below.
7% of occupied homes in Brantley County heat mainly with wood or propane, close to the Georgia county median of 7.1%.
Muggy summer nights, lows of 65°F or more, come about 138 times a year in Brantley County. Mold after a leak spreads fastest from June through August.
Local risk profile
About 18,315 people live in Brantley County, 443 square miles in southeast Georgia, in roughly 8,298 homes. Nahunta is the county seat; Hoboken, Waynesville and Hickox are the next largest communities. Much of its housing is recent, with a median build year of 1995.
28/100 Water Damage Risk Index: Moderate Brantley County ranks 151 of 159 Georgia counties. See the statewide ranking and method.The three factors where Brantley County ranks highest compared with other Georgia counties.
Brantley County is milder than most of Georgia, but not mild enough to skip winterizing. It averaged 14 freezing nights a year over 2015–2024, 0 of them at 20°F or colder, cold enough for pipes in outside walls and crawl spaces to freeze. Among 159 Georgia counties that's 117th.
With only about 14 freezing nights a year, many homes here aren't built for cold, so a single arctic outbreak can burst pipes across the county. The record low in this data was about 21°F, on January 31, 2022.
Brantley gets fewer downpours than most Georgia counties, but they still fill basements. About 10.6 days a year bring an inch or more (132nd of 159), most often in January, out of 50.8 inches of total precipitation. On September 11, 2017, 5.56 inches fell in a single day. Multi-day storms matter most for basements; the wettest three days on record here totaled 6.63 inches (through August 8, 2024).
Housing
Georgia's 159 counties range widely in housing age; Brantley ranks 113th, with 30% of its homes built before 1980.
Growth since 2000 added 39% of today's homes. In houses that new, the weak points are washing machine hoses, ice maker lines, water heaters and sump pumps rather than the pipes in the walls.
About 32% of homes went up between 1980 and 1999. Some houses from the late 1970s to the mid-1990s were plumbed with polybutylene, a gray plastic pipe known for failing at fittings. A plumber can tell you in a few minutes whether you have it.
Manufactured and mobile homes make up 51% of the housing here. Water lines in the underbelly depend on intact skirting and working heat tape, and they're usually the first to freeze in a cold snap.
21% of homes were vacant at survey time. A leak in an empty rental or seasonal house can run for days before anyone notices, which is why those losses tend to be larger.
Beyond water
Summer nights that don't drop below 65°F, a good marker of humid air, come about 138 times a year here, above the Georgia county median of 112. Mold grows when indoor humidity stays above about 60%, the EPA's ceiling. A basement dehumidifier set to 50% and drying anything wet within 24 to 48 hours prevents most problems.
Mold remediation: what to expectHeating fuel matters for fire risk. In Brantley County it's 1% utility gas, 91% electric, 4% propane and 3% wood. Wood heat is more common here than in most Georgia counties. Heating equipment is one of the leading causes of home fires nationally, and the NFPA recommends having chimneys and vents inspected every year.
Fire and smoke cleanup: first stepsCoverage
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Population from ACS 2020-2024 5-year estimates. Townships and unincorporated areas are covered too.
Nearby
Brantley gets more pipe-freeze nights than any of its neighbors. Ware County has the oldest housing nearby, with 54% of homes built before 1980.
By the numbers
| Factor | Brantley | Georgia median | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Homes built before 1960 | 8.4% | 15% | 123 of 159 |
| Homes built before 1980 | 30% | 38% | 113 of 159 |
| Homes built 2000 or later | 39% | 27% | 33 of 159 |
| Manufactured or mobile homes | 51% | 21% | 1 of 159 |
| Vacant homes | 21% | 14% | 29 of 159 |
| Wood or propane heat | 6.6% | 7.1% | 87 of 159 |
| Nights at 20°F or colder | 0/yr | 2/yr | 117 of 159 |
| Days with 1 inch+ of rain | 11/yr | 12/yr | 132 of 159 |
| Freeze-thaw days | 14/yr | 29/yr | 140 of 159 |
| Muggy nights (65°F+) | 138/yr | 112/yr | 15 of 159 |
Rank 1 is the highest value. Bars run from the lowest to the highest Georgia county; the tick marks the median; orange means higher water damage risk than the median, green means lower.
Questions
Peak risk months in Brantley County: freezing from midwinter, heavy rain in January, April and July.
Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, ACS 2024 5-year estimates (2020-2024); weather from NOAA nClimGrid-Daily county averages (EpiNOAA), 2015–2024, averaged across the county; county boundaries from Census TIGER. Reviewed 2026-10-21. Methodology