Titus County, Texas · Mount Pleasant
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Titus County averages 4 nights a year at 20°F or colder, mostly January, and 12% of its homes predate 1960.
Basements flood here mostly in April. Titus County averages 14.4 days a year with an inch of rain or more.
Backups often follow heavy rain, which Titus County gets about 14.4 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 33 freeze-thaw days a year, from winter ice dams. Most show up as ceiling stains in the room below.
5% of occupied homes in Titus County heat mainly with wood or propane, below the Texas county median of 6.5%.
About 119 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
With 12,146 homes and around 31,363 residents, Titus County is 406 square miles of northeast Texas. Besides Mount Pleasant, the county seat, the biggest communities are Winfield, Talco and Miller's Cove. Much of its housing is recent, with a median build year of 1985.
53/100 Water Damage Risk Index: Elevated Titus County ranks 100 of 232 Texas counties. See the statewide ranking and method.The three factors where Titus County ranks highest compared with other Texas counties.
Titus is on the colder side of Texas for pipes. It averaged 35 freezing nights a year over 2015–2024, 4 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 68th.
Cold snaps are the real risk. The worst in the record lasted 4 days below freezing (ending February 2021), and the low bottomed out near -2°F on February 16, 2021.
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 13 and the last spring freeze around Mar 1.
Heavy rain is a bigger factor here than in most of Texas. About 14.4 days a year bring an inch or more (42nd of 232), most often in April, out of 52 inches of total precipitation. On December 28, 2015, 6.01 inches fell in a single day. Multi-day storms matter most for basements; the wettest three days on record here totaled 7.14 inches (through September 24, 2018).
About 33 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; Titus ranks 148th, with 41% of its homes built before 1980.
Housing age is mixed: 12% of homes are pre-1960 and 25% are 2000 or newer. Ask any plumber which era your house is from and you'll know which failures to watch for.
The 1980s and 1990s account for 34% of the county's homes. If yours is from those decades, look under the sinks and at the water heater for gray plastic pipe stamped PB, which is polybutylene and leak-prone.
14% of homes are manufactured or mobile homes, close to 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.
Beyond water
About 119 nights a year in Titus County stay at 65°F or warmer, a sign of muggy summer air (149th of 232 counties). April is the wettest month. 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 expectHeating fuel matters for fire risk. In Titus County it's 19% utility gas, 75% electric, 5% propane and under 1% wood. Fires here are likelier to start in the kitchen or the wiring than in the furnace. After any fire, keep the HVAC off until ducts are checked, or soot will travel through the house.
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
Titus gets more pipe-freeze nights than any of its neighbors. Morris County has the oldest housing nearby, with 59% of homes built before 1980.
By the numbers
| Factor | Titus | Texas median | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Homes built before 1960 | 12% | 20% | 175 of 232 |
| Homes built before 1980 | 41% | 46% | 148 of 232 |
| Homes built 2000 or later | 25% | 26% | 128 of 232 |
| Manufactured or mobile homes | 14% | 13% | 112 of 232 |
| Vacant homes | 8.2% | 17% | 203 of 232 |
| Wood or propane heat | 5.3% | 6.5% | 139 of 232 |
| Nights at 20°F or colder | 4/yr | 3/yr | 68 of 232 |
| Days with 1 inch+ of rain | 14/yr | 7.8/yr | 42 of 232 |
| Freeze-thaw days | 33/yr | 27/yr | 87 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 Titus County: freezing from January, heavy rain in April, May 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