Pennsylvania · Off-grid & homestead potential
Somerset County is a solid bolthole (64/100). Its strengths are abundant rainfall (47.2″/yr) with little drought and low extraction and seizure exposure. The trade-offs: elevated natural-hazard exposure and middling conditions for growing food.
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Somerset County is a solid bolthole (64/100). Its strengths: abundant rainfall (47.2″/yr) with little drought and low extraction and seizure exposure. Watch-outs: elevated natural-hazard exposure and middling conditions for growing food.
Land in Somerset County runs about $4,380 per acre, based on the latest county data.
Somerset County gets about 47.2" of rain a year, with severe drought in roughly 2.4% of years.
The nearest major metro is about 59 miles away, and population density is 67.2 people per square mile.