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With 28% of homes built before 1960 and about 6 hard-freeze nights a year, frozen and split pipes are a leading winter risk in the county.
May brings the most downpours to Jack County, part of 9.8 heavy-rain days a year. Check the sump first.
28% 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.
In Jack County, 3.78 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 Jack County heat mainly with wood or propane, above the Texas county median of 6.5%.
With 113 muggy nights a year, mold in Jack County can appear within days of a leak. Dry first, then clean.
Local risk profile
Jack County covers 911 square miles of northern Texas, with about 8,882 residents and 3,811 homes. Jacksboro is the county seat; Bryson and Perrin are the next largest communities. The county's median home was built in 1975.
65/100 Water Damage Risk Index: Elevated Jack County ranks 14 of 232 Texas counties. See the statewide ranking and method.The three factors where Jack County ranks highest compared with other Texas counties.
Jack is on the colder side of Texas for pipes. In the 2015–2024 record the county logged about 6 nights a year at or below 20°F (44th of 232) and 46 below freezing. Twenty degrees is roughly where uninsulated pipes start to freeze.
The longest cold spell was straight 10 days without the temperature rising above freezing, ending in February 2021. The coldest night reached about -6°F on February 16, 2021. Burst pipes usually show up when a spell like that breaks and the ice thaws.
The freeze season here runs January, with January the coldest. If you travel then, leave the thermostat at 55°F or above and open sink cabinets on outside walls.
On average the first fall freeze arrives around Nov 12 and the last spring freeze around Mar 14.
Rainfall is about average for Texas. About 9.8 days a year bring an inch or more (87th of 232), most often in May, out of 36.2 inches of total precipitation. On October 23, 2015, 3.78 inches fell in a single day. Multi-day storms matter most for basements; the wettest three days on record here totaled 4.93 inches (through October 25, 2015).
About 42 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
59% of homes in Jack County predate 1980, above the Texas county median of 45.8%, which ranks 55th of Texas's 232 counties.
In Jack County 28% 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.
23% 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.
16% of homes are manufactured or mobile homes, above the Texas county median of 13.4%. Their water lines run under the floor behind the skirting, so a torn skirt or failed heat tape freezes them faster than lines in a site-built house.
With 22% 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
Summer nights that don't drop below 65°F, a good marker of humid air, come about 113 times a year here, below 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 Jack County's occupied homes: 28% utility gas, 53% electric, 14% propane and 2% wood. Wood and propane heat are more common here than in most Texas counties. Heating equipment is one of the leading causes of home fires nationally, and the NFPA recommends having chimneys and vents inspected every year.
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Population from ACS 2020-2024 5-year estimates. Townships and unincorporated areas are covered too.
Nearby
Clay gets more pipe-freeze nights than Jack. Its housing is the oldest in the area by share of homes built before 1980.
By the numbers
| Factor | Jack | Texas median | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Homes built before 1960 | 28% | 20% | 66 of 232 |
| Homes built before 1980 | 59% | 46% | 55 of 232 |
| Homes built 2000 or later | 18% | 26% | 171 of 232 |
| Manufactured or mobile homes | 16% | 13% | 86 of 232 |
| Vacant homes | 22% | 17% | 66 of 232 |
| Wood or propane heat | 16% | 6.5% | 25 of 232 |
| Nights at 20°F or colder | 6/yr | 3/yr | 44 of 232 |
| Days with 1 inch+ of rain | 9.8/yr | 7.8/yr | 87 of 232 |
| Freeze-thaw days | 42/yr | 27/yr | 50 of 232 |
| Muggy nights (65°F+) | 113/yr | 129/yr | 166 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 Jack County: freezing from January, heavy rain in April, May 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