Pennsylvania · Off-grid & homestead potential
Lackawanna County is a marginal bolthole (49/100). Its strengths are abundant rainfall (45.2″/yr) with little drought and low extraction and seizure exposure. The trade-offs: elevated natural-hazard exposure and real distance from any metro (55 mi).
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Lackawanna County is a marginal bolthole (49/100). Its strengths: abundant rainfall (45.2″/yr) with little drought and low extraction and seizure exposure. Watch-outs: elevated natural-hazard exposure and real distance from any metro (55 mi).
Land in Lackawanna County runs about $7,310 per acre, based on the latest county data.
Lackawanna County gets about 45.2" of rain a year, with severe drought in roughly 0.2% of years.
The nearest major metro is about 55 miles away, and population density is 470.8 people per square mile.