Iowa · Off-grid & homestead potential
Madison County is a solid bolthole (60/100). Its strengths are almost no federal land or extraction and low natural-disaster risk.
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Madison County is a solid bolthole (60/100). Its strengths: almost no federal land or extraction and low natural-disaster risk.
Land in Madison County runs about $7,700 per acre, based on the latest county data.
Madison County gets about 35.6" of rain a year, with severe drought in roughly 11.6% of years.
The nearest major metro is about 27 miles away, and population density is 30.3 people per square mile.