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Fort Bend County
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Fort Bend County county intelligence

Cross-source county ranking context from the Atlas county explorer service, with committed Wave 1 analytics overlays to help answer what changed and why.

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Common county terms
Texas Water Development Board (TWDB)Hydrologic Unit Code (HUC)Public Water System (PWS)
91.82
Composite score
13
Composite rank
5
Highlight lanes
#125
Wave 1 risk rank
Investigation context

Weather + hydrology context for Fort Bend County

Composite operating context — active hazards, hydrologic features, surface-water condition, and infrastructure footprint — pulled from cached snapshots only.

Active hazard footprint
0 active alerts

No NWS-driven alerts active in the cached water-summary feed. Drought + precipitation context land once those snapshots are committed.

No sewer overflow rows in the 30-day window.

Hydrology features
8 TWDB features

GULF_COAST · CARRIZO · Brazos · Brazos-Colorado

4 Major Aquifers · 3 Major River Basins · 3 HUC 8 Hydrologic Units

Surface water condition
9 impaired / 24 segments

38% of cached TCEQ surface segments in this county carry at least one impairment flag.

Basin: Bays and Estuaries, Brazos River Basin+

Drinking-water exposure
27 SDWIS violations

19 public water systems with cached health-based violations since 2023-04-01. 13,783 people served by those systems.

Top PWS: FORT BEND COUNTY PCT 2 ROAD AND BRIDGE (4 viol.) · Top contaminant code: 5200

Stream gauge coverage
0 active gauges

No active stream gauges in the cached water-summary feed. Hydrologic stress signal lands once gauges fold in.

USGS streamflow anomaly + drought class join in next-up.

Boil-water proxy · microbial rule
4 microbial violations

2 PWSes carry SDWIS rule-group 100 (microbial) violations — the same rule that triggers Texas boil-water advisories. 3 of those are Tier 1 (24-hour public notice).

Top PWS: HWY 36 LAKEVIEW RV RESORT (3 viol.) · Latest: 2024-08-03

Treatment stress · E2 disinfectant
2 disinfectant violations

1 PWS carry SDWIS rule-group 200 (Disinfectants and Disinfection Byproducts Rule) violations — the same rule family that drives E2 disinfectant residual reporting.

Top PWS: CINCO MUD 5 (2 viol.) · Top contaminant code: 2950 · Latest: 2025-01-01

Impaired surface segments in this county
  • Unnamed Tributary of Bullhead Bayou East
    Brazos River Basin · contact recreation
  • Bullhead Bayou East
    Brazos River Basin · contact recreation
  • Alcorn Bayou
    Brazos River Basin · contact recreation
  • Mound Creek
    Brazos-Colorado Coastal Basin · aquatic life
  • Steep Bank Creek
    Brazos River Basin · contact recreation
  • Upper Oyster Creek
    Brazos River Basin · aquatic life, contact recreation

Impairment is a legal-use-support classification, not a direct harm claim.

Analytics snapshot

Risk trend from committed snapshots

Uses the committed county-history artifact only. Atlas does not backfill imaginary periods; if a previous snapshot is missing, this panel says so.

Updated 2026-05-09 22:08:46Z
Risk scorePressure score
05-09 22:05Z05-09 22:08Z
Risk score
0.12 · No change
Pressure score
10 · No change
Systems / violations
3 flagged systems shown
Pressure quadrant
High pressure + high risk

Interpretation

What changed and why

Fort Bend County is currently driven most by water districts in the county explorer stack, while the committed analytics lane classifies it as high pressure + high risk.

Across the latest two committed snapshots, both the county risk score and pressure score are unchanged, so the analytical read is about persistent position rather than a new spike. The county is steady across the latest committed comparison window.

High pressure + high risk
This county sits above the current statewide median on both the pressure and risk axes in the committed scatter snapshot.
Grounding and caveats

County analytics are derived from committed SDWIS, ACS county population, surface-water-quality, and TWDB hydrology snapshots. History appends one real snapshot per run and never fabricates prior periods.

  • countyRiskScore is the statewide 0-100 normalization of summed SDWIS DWRS raw scores per county.
  • pressureScore is the statewide 0-100 normalization of impaired segment counts per 100k residents when population is available; otherwise it falls back to raw impaired segment count.
  • Rank deltas compare the newest county-history snapshot against the immediately preceding real snapshot.
  • Both axes are normalized to a 0-100 statewide range for stable chart consumption.

Driver decomposition

Top explorer lanes ranked against the statewide county stack. Percentile and contribution values are derived from the reusable Wave 1 analytics spine.

Water districts
Rank #2 · 99.61 percentile
Value 299
19.92 pts into composite
21.69% of the current composite score from this lane.
Permits
Rank #3 · 99.23 percentile
Value 166
19.85 pts into composite
21.62% of the current composite score from this lane.
CPI investigations
Rank #14 · 94.98 percentile
Value 24676
19 pts into composite
20.69% of the current composite score from this lane.
County returns
Rank #19 · 93.05 percentile
Value 32980161.01
18.61 pts into composite
20.27% of the current composite score from this lane.

Top systems behind the county signal

When county-history carries system-level highlights, Atlas surfaces the systems contributing the most to the latest committed risk snapshot.

CINCO MUD 5
PWS TX0790291
Risk contribution 0.04
2 violations in the cached snapshot
TDCJ JESTER UNIT 3
PWS TX0790085
Risk contribution 0.02
1 violations in the cached snapshot
CITY OF NEEDVILLE
PWS TX0790001
Risk contribution 0.02
1 violations in the cached snapshot

Operator lane

Operators visible in this county snapshot

Ranked only from the current permittee and CID applicant snapshot. Atlas links out where operator presence is visible; it does not invent a deeper hierarchy or historical market share.

5 visible operators
AMBER OAKS DEVELOPMENT COMPANY LLC
1 permits · 0 cases · 0 procedural pressure in Fort Bend County
Statewide footprint: 1 counties
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Current record mix: 0 hearing requests · 0 public meeting requests · 0 comments across visible cases.
ARCOLA DEVELOPMENT LLC
1 permits · 0 cases · 0 procedural pressure in Fort Bend County
Statewide footprint: 1 counties
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Current record mix: 0 hearing requests · 0 public meeting requests · 0 comments across visible cases.
AYLER LAND INVESTMENT LLC
1 permits · 0 cases · 0 procedural pressure in Fort Bend County
Statewide footprint: 1 counties
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Current record mix: 0 hearing requests · 0 public meeting requests · 0 comments across visible cases.
CITY OF RICHMOND
1 permits · 0 cases · 0 procedural pressure in Fort Bend County
Statewide footprint: 1 counties
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Current record mix: 0 hearing requests · 0 public meeting requests · 0 comments across visible cases.
CITY OF SUGAR LAND
1 permits · 0 cases · 0 procedural pressure in Fort Bend County
Statewide footprint: 1 counties
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Current record mix: 0 hearing requests · 0 public meeting requests · 0 comments across visible cases.

County ↔ operator navigation

Move from county stress to named operators

County rankings show where signal concentrates. Operator pages show which named permittees and applicants are currently visible inside that signal.

The strongest visible crosslinks here come from AMBER OAKS DEVELOPMENT COMPANY LLC and ARCOLA DEVELOPMENT LLC. Use those pages to inspect county concentration, case posture, and permit roster.
  • • County page: risk, hydrology, and statewide rank context.
  • • Operator page: county footprint, open CID case posture, and pending permit roster.
  • • Permit view: county-scoped transaction list for the current public snapshot.

Highlights

Top-ranked source lanes per the cached county overview.

Water districts
Rank 2 · Value 299
Permits
Rank 3 · Value 166
CPI investigations
Rank 14 · Value 24676
County returns
Rank 19 · Value 32980161.01
Sales tax rates
Rank 41 · Value 53

Hydrology and surface-water condition fold into the investigation context block above; Texas Water Development Board (TWDB) + Hydrologic Unit Code (HUC) features are shared with the water county profile.