Iowa · Off-grid & homestead potential
Pottawattamie County is a solid bolthole (55/100). Its strengths are almost no federal land or extraction and decent rainfall (34.5″/yr). The trade-offs: elevated natural-hazard exposure and 27 mi from the nearest metro.
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Pottawattamie County is a solid bolthole (55/100). Its strengths: almost no federal land or extraction and decent rainfall (34.5″/yr). Watch-outs: elevated natural-hazard exposure and 27 mi from the nearest metro.
Land in Pottawattamie County runs about $8,718 per acre, based on the latest county data.
Pottawattamie County gets about 34.5" of rain a year, with severe drought in roughly 12.9% of years.
The nearest major metro is about 27 miles away, and population density is 98 people per square mile.