Texas / Wood County
Score 27 · moderate · #51 of 209 in TX
Crawl space moisture in Wood County, TX
Wood County scores moderate: no single wet-soil signal dominates its mapped acres. Where a seasonal water table is reported — 47% of acres — it averages 2.3 ft below grade.
- 1Water table 2.3 ft
- 2Wet soils 18%
- 3Moisture score 27
- 4EPA radon zone 3
Reading the Wood County soil survey
The score of 27 combines four parts, each from the USDA survey: wet drainage classes contribute 19.8 points of 100 on their own scale, group D soils 38.1, a shallow water table 30.1, and flooding 15.6; the weights are on the methodology page. The dominant hydrologic group is C (29% of acres): slow infiltration (clay layers).
At 2.3 ft the seasonal water table is usually below a crawl-space floor, but the 47% of acres that report one are by definition the wettest parts of the county; on those lots, a wet spring can bring water close to the footings.
Wood County against the rest of Texas
Wood County ranks 51 of 209 Texas counties, 9 points above the state median of 18. That puts it in the wettest quarter of the state. Statewide, 6% of mapped soil is in the wet drainage classes; here it is 18%, half again the state figure or more. After well drained, the next most common class is moderately well drained at 19%.
Flooding. 15.6% of acres with a flooding class are rated frequent. That is a large flood-prone share; a crawl space in the floodplain needs flood vents under most local floodplain ordinances, which is a separate rule from R408 and can rule out a fully sealed design.
What it means for a crawl space here
In a moderate county the soil record is mixed rather than uniformly wet, so conditions vary from lot to lot. Where the lot drains, the model-code default — a vented crawl space with 1 sq ft of net vent per 150 sq ft of floor, or 1 per 1500 with a Class I vapor retarder on the ground — is a reasonable starting point; where the sections above point to a shallow water table or flood-prone soil on your lot, plan as for an elevated county. Either way, check the site first: grading that falls away from the foundation, gutters and downspouts that discharge well clear of it, and a ground cover over bare earth. A wet crawl space in a moderate county points to one of those first.
Radon. EPA radon zone 3. The zone is a county-level prediction; EPA says elevated levels occur in every zone and every home should be tested.
Near Wood County by score
Sources: USDA NRCS SSURGO via Soil Data Access (muaggatt: drclassdcd, hydgrpdcd, flodfreqdcd, pondfreqprs, wtdepannmin), acreage-weighted (survey area TX499; drainage covers 93% of 445,402 mapped acres); EPA Map of Radon Zones, county table (June 2024 JSON); IRC R408.3 Unvented crawl space, as adopted in S.C. Code Regs. 8-1221 (LII). Checked 2026-10-23.