Echols County, Georgia · Statenville
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With 7% of homes built before 1960 and about 0 hard-freeze nights a year, frozen and split pipes are a leading winter risk in the county.
Basements flood here mostly in June. Echols County averages 9.1 days a year with an inch of rain or more.
7% of homes here predate 1960, when clay and cast iron sewer laterals were standard. Roots and cracks in those lines are a common cause of backups.
Echols County's wettest day in the 2015–2024 record brought 5.22 inches.
9% of occupied homes in Echols County heat mainly with wood or propane, above the Georgia county median of 7.1%.
Muggy summer nights, lows of 65°F or more, come about 133 times a year in Echols County. Mold after a leak spreads fastest from June through August.
Local risk profile
Echols County covers 420 square miles of southern Georgia, with about 3,709 residents and 1,355 homes. Statenville is the county seat; Echols County is the next largest community. Much of its housing is recent, with a median build year of 1992.
21/100 Water Damage Risk Index: Lower Echols County ranks 159 of 159 Georgia counties. See the statewide ranking and method.The three factors where Echols County ranks highest compared with other Georgia counties.
Winters here are on the gentler end for Georgia, and pipes still freeze. In the 2015–2024 record the county logged about 0 nights a year at or below 20°F (117th of 159) and 13 below freezing. Twenty degrees is roughly where uninsulated pipes start to freeze.
Hard freezes are uncommon here, about 13 nights a year at or below 32°F, and that's exactly why they do damage: pipes in attics, exterior walls and slab-edge plumbing are rarely insulated. The coldest night in the record was about 18°F on December 25, 2022.
Echols gets fewer downpours than most Georgia counties, but they still fill basements. Of roughly 51.4 inches of yearly precipitation, the damage comes from the 9.1 days a year with an inch or more, ranked 157th of 159. January, June and December see the most. The single wettest day in the record: 5.22 inches, August 6, 2024. The worst three-day stretch dropped 7.82 inches, ending June 9, 2020, the kind of soaking that overwhelms sump pumps and storm sewers.
Housing
33% of homes in Echols County predate 1980, below the Georgia county median of 38.4%, which ranks 102nd of Georgia's 159 counties.
Housing age is mixed: 7% of homes are pre-1960 and 30% are 2000 or newer. Ask any plumber which era your house is from and you'll know which failures to watch for.
The 1980s and 1990s account for 37% of the county's homes. If yours is from those decades, look under the sinks and at the water heater for gray plastic pipe stamped PB, which is polybutylene and leak-prone.
Manufactured and mobile homes make up 43% 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.
Beyond water
Echols County averages 133 warm, muggy nights a year (lows of 65°F or more) and gets the most rain in June. Keep indoor humidity under 60%, as the EPA advises, and dry any leak within 24 to 48 hours; in a humid month a wet basement left alone won't dry by itself.
Mold remediation: what to expectMain heating fuel in Echols County's occupied homes: 2% utility gas, 89% electric, 8% propane and under 1% wood. Heating equipment, cooking and electrical failures cause most home fires nationally. Even a small kitchen fire can leave soot through the whole house, because smoke follows air currents into closets, ducts and attic space.
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Population from ACS 2020-2024 5-year estimates. Townships and unincorporated areas are covered too.
Nearby
Echols gets more pipe-freeze nights than any of its neighbors. Clinch County has the oldest housing nearby, with 50% of homes built before 1980.
By the numbers
| Factor | Echols | Georgia median | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Homes built before 1960 | 7% | 15% | 135 of 159 |
| Homes built before 1980 | 33% | 38% | 102 of 159 |
| Homes built 2000 or later | 30% | 27% | 63 of 159 |
| Manufactured or mobile homes | 43% | 21% | 6 of 159 |
| Vacant homes | 16% | 14% | 72 of 159 |
| Wood or propane heat | 8.7% | 7.1% | 74 of 159 |
| Nights at 20°F or colder | 0/yr | 2/yr | 117 of 159 |
| Days with 1 inch+ of rain | 9.1/yr | 12/yr | 157 of 159 |
| Freeze-thaw days | 13/yr | 29/yr | 147 of 159 |
| Muggy nights (65°F+) | 133/yr | 112/yr | 28 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 Echols County: freezing from midwinter, heavy rain in January, June and December.
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