Twiggs County, Georgia · Jeffersonville
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Twiggs County averages 1 night a year at 20°F or colder, mostly midwinter, and 15% of its homes predate 1960.
Heavy rain days of an inch or more come about 10.1 times a year here, most often in December. A sump pump that hasn't run since last season is a common weak point.
Backups often follow heavy rain, which Twiggs County gets about 10.1 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 and, with about 24 freeze-thaw days a year, from winter ice dams. Most show up as ceiling stains in the room below.
16% of occupied homes in Twiggs 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 117 times a year in Twiggs County. Mold after a leak spreads fastest from June through August.
Local risk profile
With 4,055 homes and around 7,803 residents, Twiggs County is 359 square miles of central Georgia. Besides Jeffersonville, the county seat, the biggest community is Danville. The county's median home was built in 1984.
36/100 Water Damage Risk Index: Moderate Twiggs County ranks 139 of 159 Georgia counties. See the statewide ranking and method.The three factors where Twiggs County ranks highest compared with other Georgia counties.
For frozen pipes, Twiggs County is a typical Georgia county, which is still plenty. It averaged 24 freezing nights a year over 2015–2024, 1 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 85th.
With only about 24 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 13°F, on December 24, 2022.
Twiggs gets fewer downpours than most Georgia counties, but they still fill basements. About 10.1 days a year bring an inch or more (145th of 159), most often in December, out of 49.3 inches of total precipitation. On September 17, 2020, 6.28 inches fell in a single day. Multi-day storms matter most for basements; the wettest three days on record here totaled 7.32 inches (through September 18, 2020).
About 24 days a year swing from below freezing at night to above freezing by day. Those freeze-thaw cycles feed ice dams on roofs, open cracks in foundations and driveways, and stress pipes that are already marginal.
Housing
Roughly 42% of the county's housing was built before 1980. That puts Twiggs near the middle of Georgia's 159 counties.
The mix runs from 15% built before 1960 to 19% built since 2000, so older neighborhoods bring aging pipe while newer subdivisions bring failed appliance lines and water heaters.
About 39% 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.
Here 37% of housing is manufactured homes. Check the skirting and the heat tape on the main water line every fall, because that one exposed line is what freezes.
The Census counted 29% of homes as vacant, above the Georgia county median of 14%. Empty houses are where a small leak turns into a large claim, because nobody is there to hear it.
Beyond water
Summer nights that don't drop below 65°F, a good marker of humid air, come about 117 times a year here, close to the Georgia county median of 112. The EPA recommends keeping indoor humidity below 60%, ideally 30 to 50%. Basements can pass 60% on their own in summer, so a dehumidifier matters even without a leak, and anything wet should be dried within 24 to 48 hours.
Mold remediation: what to expectMain heating fuel in Twiggs County's occupied homes: 7% utility gas, 74% electric, 15% propane and 2% wood. Wood and propane heat are more common here than the state median. Have chimneys swept and fuel-burning appliances serviced each fall, and keep three feet clear around stoves and space heaters.
Fire and smoke cleanup: first stepsCoverage
Calls connect to restoration companies that work across Twiggs County. The largest communities by population:
Population from ACS 2020-2024 5-year estimates. Townships and unincorporated areas are covered too.
Nearby
Bibb and Jones get more pipe-freeze nights than Twiggs. Bibb County has the oldest housing nearby, with 55% of homes built before 1980.
By the numbers
| Factor | Twiggs | Georgia median | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Homes built before 1960 | 15% | 15% | 82 of 159 |
| Homes built before 1980 | 42% | 38% | 54 of 159 |
| Homes built 2000 or later | 19% | 27% | 132 of 159 |
| Manufactured or mobile homes | 37% | 21% | 10 of 159 |
| Vacant homes | 29% | 14% | 12 of 159 |
| Wood or propane heat | 16% | 7.1% | 32 of 159 |
| Nights at 20°F or colder | 1/yr | 2/yr | 85 of 159 |
| Days with 1 inch+ of rain | 10/yr | 12/yr | 145 of 159 |
| Freeze-thaw days | 24/yr | 29/yr | 91 of 159 |
| Muggy nights (65°F+) | 117/yr | 112/yr | 73 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 Twiggs County: freezing from midwinter, heavy rain in January, April 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