What Red River County, TX's soil rates for a septic system

Very limited

92.5% of Red River County, TX's surveyed soil comes back "Very limited" in USDA's own SSURGO data, the county's dominant condition for a septic absorption field. This is the reading that pushes a project toward an engineered system rather than a conventional one, and it covers 92.5% of Red River County's land. Red River County, TX is 1,043.896 square miles with a population of 11,696.

What Red River County's reading doesn't cover

USDA's survey covers the whole of Red River County, TX at once, not any single address. A local percolation test, typically $750-$1,850 (around $1,300 typical), is the only way to know what one lot in Red River County will actually do.

What a system would cost here

With 92.5% of Red River County rating "Very limited", a standard gravity system is not a safe assumption here. The engineered-system range, $10,000-$40,000 (mound or aerobic treatment), is the more realistic number to plan around, against $3,000-$8,000 for a conventional system on the rare lot that passes.

How Red River County, TX compares

Nationally, Red River County, TX is the 981-most-constrained of 3,058 rated counties for septic soil. Within Texas alone it ranks 65 of 253.

Before you act on this

How this rating is built, and its real limits · Conventional vs. engineered septic systems