Minnesota · Off-grid & homestead potential
Stearns County is a solid bolthole (53/100). Its strengths are almost no federal land or extraction and decent rainfall (29.3″/yr). The trade-offs: elevated natural-hazard exposure and a short, cold growing season (43°F avg).
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Stearns County is a solid bolthole (53/100). Its strengths: almost no federal land or extraction and decent rainfall (29.3″/yr). Watch-outs: elevated natural-hazard exposure and a short, cold growing season (43°F avg).
Land in Stearns County runs about $5,605 per acre, based on the latest county data.
Stearns County gets about 29.3" of rain a year, with severe drought in roughly 6.7% of years.
The nearest major metro is about 77 miles away, and population density is 119.9 people per square mile.