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Pipes freeze in Crane County on about 3 nights a year, mostly January. Older homes, 29% of the stock here, are most at risk.
June brings the most downpours to Crane County, part of 2.4 heavy-rain days a year. Check the sump first.
Sewage backups in Crane County spike on heavy-rain days, about 2.4 a year, when sewer mains fill up and water finds the lowest drain.
Crane County's wettest day in the 2015–2024 record brought 2.06 inches, and about 35 freeze-thaw days a year mean ice dams in some winters.
3% of occupied homes in Crane County heat mainly with wood or propane, below the Texas county median of 6.5%.
With 119 muggy nights a year, mold in Crane County can appear within days of a leak. Dry first, then clean.
Local risk profile
About 4,610 people live in Crane County, 785 square miles in western Texas, in roughly 1,840 homes. The county seat is Crane. The county's median home was built in 1977.
46/100 Water Damage Risk Index: Elevated Crane County ranks 152 of 232 Texas counties. See the statewide ranking and method.The three factors where Crane County ranks highest compared with other Texas counties.
For frozen pipes, Crane County is a typical Texas county, which is still plenty. From 2015–2024 it averaged 3 nights a year at 20°F or colder, the range where pipes in exterior walls, crawl spaces and unheated garages freeze, and 37 nights at or below 32°F. That ranks 94th of 232 counties.
The longest cold spell was straight 5 days without the temperature rising above freezing, ending in February 2021. The coldest night reached about 5°F on February 16, 2021. Burst pipes usually show up when a spell like that breaks and the ice thaws.
Expect the hardest freezes in January, inside a season that runs January. That's when an outdoor spigot left connected to a hose, or a pipe in a crawl space, is most likely to split.
On average the first fall freeze arrives around Nov 26 and the last spring freeze around Feb 25.
Crane gets fewer downpours than most Texas counties, but they still fill basements. About 2.4 days a year bring an inch or more (214th of 232), most often in June, out of 12 inches of total precipitation. On October 22, 2015, 2.06 inches fell in a single day. Multi-day storms matter most for basements; the wettest three days on record here totaled 2.95 inches (through June 2, 2016).
Freeze-thaw days, below freezing overnight and above it by afternoon, come about 35 times a year here. They're the main driver of ice dams and of water working its way through foundation cracks in late winter.
Housing
55% of homes in Crane County predate 1980, above the Texas county median of 45.8%, which ranks 70th of Texas's 232 counties.
In Crane County 29% 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.
26% 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 34% 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.
Beyond water
Summer nights that don't drop below 65°F, a good marker of humid air, come about 119 times a year here, close to the Texas county median of 129. 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 Crane County's occupied homes: 22% utility gas, 72% electric, 3% 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
Ector gets more pipe-freeze nights than Crane. Ward County has the oldest housing nearby, with 66% of homes built before 1980.
By the numbers
| Factor | Crane | Texas median | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Homes built before 1960 | 29% | 20% | 57 of 232 |
| Homes built before 1980 | 55% | 46% | 70 of 232 |
| Homes built 2000 or later | 20% | 26% | 162 of 232 |
| Manufactured or mobile homes | 34% | 13% | 9 of 232 |
| Vacant homes | 11% | 17% | 176 of 232 |
| Wood or propane heat | 2.9% | 6.5% | 193 of 232 |
| Nights at 20°F or colder | 3/yr | 3/yr | 94 of 232 |
| Days with 1 inch+ of rain | 2.4/yr | 7.8/yr | 214 of 232 |
| Freeze-thaw days | 35/yr | 27/yr | 80 of 232 |
| Muggy nights (65°F+) | 119/yr | 129/yr | 149 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 Crane County: freezing from January, heavy rain in June, October and November.
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