Concho County, Texas · Paint Rock
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Concho County averages 3 nights a year at 20°F or colder, mostly January, and 37% of its homes predate 1960.
May brings the most downpours to Concho County, part of 5.6 heavy-rain days a year. Check the sump first.
Backups often follow heavy rain, which Concho County gets about 5.6 days a year, when storm water overloads sewer mains and pushes up through the lowest drain in the house.
In Concho County, 2.83 inches fell on the wettest day of the 2015–2024 record. Storms like that, and ice dams in snowy winters, cause most roof leaks.
16% of occupied homes in Concho County heat mainly with wood or propane, above the Texas county median of 6.5%.
About 118 nights a year here stay at 65°F or warmer, so basements and crawl spaces can grow mold even without a leak.
Local risk profile
About 3,328 people live in Concho County, 984 square miles in central Texas, in roughly 1,414 homes. The county seat is Paint Rock, and Eden is the other large town. Half the homes here were built before 1973, half after.
55/100 Water Damage Risk Index: Elevated Concho County ranks 78 of 232 Texas counties. See the statewide ranking and method.The three factors where Concho County ranks highest compared with other Texas counties.
Pipe-freeze risk in Concho County sits near the middle of the state. It averaged 38 freezing nights a year over 2015–2024, 3 of them at 20°F or colder, cold enough for pipes in outside walls and crawl spaces to freeze. Among 232 Texas counties that's 94th.
Cold snaps are the real risk. The worst in the record lasted 7 days below freezing (ending February 2021), and the low bottomed out near 3°F on February 15, 2021.
Most freezing nights fall from January, peaking in January. Disconnect garden hoses and shut off outdoor spigots before the first hard frost, and keep the heat at 55°F or higher if you'll be away.
Freezing nights typically start around Nov 14 and end around Mar 1.
Concho gets fewer downpours than most Texas counties, but they still fill basements. About 5.6 days a year bring an inch or more (159th of 232), most often in May, out of 24.6 inches of total precipitation. On July 8, 2015, 2.83 inches fell in a single day. The worst three-day stretch dropped 5.23 inches, ending October 18, 2018, the kind of soaking that overwhelms sump pumps and storm sewers.
About 36 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
Texas's 232 counties range widely in housing age; Concho ranks 58th, with 59% of its homes built before 1980.
In Concho County 37% of homes are older than 1960. If yours is one of them and the plumbing has never been replaced, expect galvanized steel supply pipe and cast iron drain lines, the two materials most likely to fail quietly.
About 26% 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 20% 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.
With 42% of homes empty at survey time, landlords and seasonal owners should shut off the main or schedule checks in winter. An unheated vacant house is also where many policies limit freeze coverage.
Beyond water
Concho County averages 118 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 expectBy main heating fuel, Concho County homes break down as 29% utility gas, 55% electric, 14% 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.
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Population from ACS 2020-2024 5-year estimates. Townships and unincorporated areas are covered too.
Nearby
Coleman, Runnels and Tom Green get more pipe-freeze nights than Concho. Runnels County has the oldest housing nearby, with 76% of homes built before 1980.
By the numbers
| Factor | Concho | Texas median | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Homes built before 1960 | 37% | 20% | 34 of 232 |
| Homes built before 1980 | 59% | 46% | 58 of 232 |
| Homes built 2000 or later | 15% | 26% | 191 of 232 |
| Manufactured or mobile homes | 20% | 13% | 53 of 232 |
| Vacant homes | 42% | 17% | 1 of 232 |
| Wood or propane heat | 16% | 6.5% | 24 of 232 |
| Nights at 20°F or colder | 3/yr | 3/yr | 94 of 232 |
| Days with 1 inch+ of rain | 5.6/yr | 7.8/yr | 159 of 232 |
| Freeze-thaw days | 36/yr | 27/yr | 75 of 232 |
| Muggy nights (65°F+) | 118/yr | 129/yr | 153 of 232 |
Rank 1 is the highest value. Bars run from the lowest to the highest Texas county; the tick marks the median; orange means higher water damage risk than the median, green means lower.
Questions
Peak risk months in Concho County: freezing from January, heavy rain in May, September and October.
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