Wilkinson County, Mississippi · Woodville
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Wilkinson County averages 2 nights a year at 20°F or colder, mostly midwinter, and 19% of its homes predate 1960.
May brings the most downpours to Wilkinson County, part of 18.7 heavy-rain days a year. Check the sump first.
Backups often follow heavy rain, which Wilkinson County gets about 18.7 days a year, when storm water overloads sewer mains and pushes up through the lowest drain in the house.
In Wilkinson County, 6.97 inches fell on the wettest day of the 2015–2024 record. Storms like that, and ice dams in snowy winters, cause most roof leaks.
13% of occupied homes in Wilkinson County heat mainly with wood or propane, below the Mississippi county median of 15.1%.
Muggy summer nights, lows of 65°F or more, come about 143 times a year in Wilkinson County. Mold after a leak spreads fastest from June through August.
Local risk profile
About 8,162 people live in Wilkinson County, 678 square miles in southwest Mississippi, in roughly 4,608 homes. The county seat is Woodville, and Centreville and Crosby round out the largest towns. Half the homes here were built before 1980, half after.
67/100 Water Damage Risk Index: Elevated Wilkinson County ranks 6 of 82 Mississippi counties. See the statewide ranking and method.The three factors where Wilkinson County ranks highest compared with other Mississippi counties.
Pipe-freeze risk in Wilkinson County sits near the middle of the state. In the 2015–2024 record the county logged about 2 nights a year at or below 20°F (47th of 82) and 18 below freezing. Twenty degrees is roughly where uninsulated pipes start to freeze.
Hard freezes are uncommon here, about 18 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 14°F on January 17, 2024.
Heavy rain is a bigger factor here than in most of Mississippi. The county gets about 65 inches of rain and melted snow a year, with 18.7 days of an inch or more (11th of 82). Those downpours cluster in January, April and May, when sump pumps and gutters are tested hardest. The wettest day on record brought 6.97 inches on August 13, 2016. The worst three-day stretch dropped 12.36 inches, ending August 14, 2016, the kind of soaking that overwhelms sump pumps and storm sewers.
Housing
Roughly 49% of the county's housing was built before 1980. That puts Wilkinson among the oldest housing stocks of Mississippi's 82 counties.
The mix runs from 19% built before 1960 to 18% built since 2000, so older neighborhoods bring aging pipe while newer subdivisions bring failed appliance lines and water heaters.
32% date from 1980 to 1999, the window when polybutylene, a gray flexible plastic supply pipe, was used in some homes. It's prone to leaks at the fittings, so it's worth checking for in a house from those years.
Here 30% 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.
31% 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
Wilkinson County averages 143 warm, muggy nights a year (lows of 65°F or more) and gets the most rain in May. 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 Wilkinson County's occupied homes: 17% utility gas, 69% electric, 13% propane and under 1% wood. Most homes here heat with gas or electricity, so cooking and electrical faults are the likelier fire sources. Even a contained kitchen fire can send soot through the ductwork to every room.
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
Wilkinson gets more pipe-freeze nights than any of its neighbors. Adams County has the oldest housing nearby, with 69% of homes built before 1980.
By the numbers
| Factor | Wilkinson | Mississippi median | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Homes built before 1960 | 19% | 15% | 19 of 82 |
| Homes built before 1980 | 49% | 45% | 20 of 82 |
| Homes built 2000 or later | 18% | 23% | 66 of 82 |
| Manufactured or mobile homes | 30% | 20% | 11 of 82 |
| Vacant homes | 31% | 17% | 2 of 82 |
| Wood or propane heat | 13% | 15% | 48 of 82 |
| Nights at 20°F or colder | 2/yr | 3/yr | 47 of 82 |
| Days with 1 inch+ of rain | 19/yr | 16/yr | 11 of 82 |
| Freeze-thaw days | 18/yr | 32/yr | 78 of 82 |
| Muggy nights (65°F+) | 143/yr | 125/yr | 5 of 82 |
Rank 1 is the highest value. Bars run from the lowest to the highest Mississippi county; the tick marks the median; orange means higher water damage risk than the median, green means lower.
Questions
Peak risk months in Wilkinson County: freezing from midwinter, heavy rain in January, April and May.
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