Maryland · Off-grid & homestead potential
Allegany County is a solid bolthole (60/100). Its strengths are decent rainfall (40.6″/yr) and almost no federal land or extraction. The trade-offs: middling conditions for growing food and moderate natural-hazard risk.
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Allegany County is a solid bolthole (60/100). Its strengths: decent rainfall (40.6″/yr) and almost no federal land or extraction. Watch-outs: middling conditions for growing food and moderate natural-hazard risk.
Land in Allegany County runs about $6,375 per acre, based on the latest county data.
Allegany County gets about 40.6" of rain a year, with severe drought in roughly 2.7% of years.
The nearest major metro is about 95 miles away, and population density is 159.3 people per square mile.