Pennsylvania · Off-grid & homestead potential
Dauphin County is a marginal bolthole (49/100). Its strengths are abundant rainfall (46″/yr) with little drought and almost no federal land or extraction. The trade-offs: elevated natural-hazard exposure and real distance from any metro (72 mi).
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Dauphin County is a marginal bolthole (49/100). Its strengths: abundant rainfall (46″/yr) with little drought and almost no federal land or extraction. Watch-outs: elevated natural-hazard exposure and real distance from any metro (72 mi).
Land in Dauphin County runs about $10,895 per acre, based on the latest county data.
Dauphin County gets about 46" of rain a year, with severe drought in roughly 0.1% of years.
The nearest major metro is about 72 miles away, and population density is 551.1 people per square mile.