Population from U.S. Census ACS 5-year tract estimates aggregated to county · flood from FEMA NFHL · contamination from EPA Superfund and state brownfields · generated 2026-10-07.
What the numbers mean for a buyer
Population has fallen 6.7% since 2010. Thin comparable-sales data is the practical problem: fewer transactions means wider valuation uncertainty, and services like public water or broadband may be contracting rather than expanding. Verify that any utility a listing promises is actually still being extended.
TerraIQs carries 9,526 scored parcels across Willacy County's 591 square miles — about 16 per square mile. That profile is large working tracts rather than subdivided lots, so soil, water and legal access carry most of the value.
Flood risk in Willacy County
Willacy County has 112 mapped Special Flood Hazard Area polygons. A parcel-level check matters because SFHA boundaries follow drainage, not property lines — adjacent parcels can carry completely different flood obligations, and a lender will require flood insurance on a structure in Zone A or AE.
See how to check whether a Texas parcel is in a flood zone for what each zone letter obligates you to do.
Contamination and environmental records
No known contamination sites are recorded in Willacy County in our source layers (EPA Superfund and state brownfields). That is a clean result for the datasets we carry, but these layers only cover reported sites — an unrecorded former dip vat, fuel tank or dump won't appear in any public layer.
Run a report on a Willacy County parcel
Search by parcel ID, owner name or address. The report covers flood, pipelines, contamination, wells, soil, slope, zoning, infrastructure, protected areas, habitat and road access in one document. First report free.
What due diligence in Willacy County involves
The county-level numbers above tell you what to expect; they don't settle any individual parcel. The checks that decide a deal — legal access, title exceptions, mineral severance, septic suitability, agricultural valuation rollback — are parcel-specific and partly document-based. Our Texas land due diligence checklist walks the full sequence in the order we'd run it, including which steps are free and which are worth paying for.
In Willacy County specifically, note that pipeline crossings are common across Texas and are invisible from the road — pipeline easements restrict where you can build permanently.
Frequently asked
TerraIQs carries 9,526 scored parcels in Willacy County. Statewide the dataset covers 14.3M+ parcels across all 254 counties; the scored subset is the rural-shard parcels, while urban and residential lots have full dossiers without a quality score.
Willacy County has 112 mapped Special Flood Hazard Area polygons. Whether a specific parcel is affected depends on drainage rather than property lines, so it needs a parcel-level check — a single parcel can span both Zone AE and Zone X.
Flood zones, pipeline and utility proximity, contamination site distance, water well records, NRCS soil and septic suitability, slope and terrain, zoning where it exists, infrastructure, protected areas, critical habitat, road access with traffic counts, and population growth context — each with its source dataset version and retrieval date.