Iowa · Off-grid & homestead potential
Muscatine County is a solid bolthole (59/100). Its strengths are decent rainfall (37.6″/yr) and almost no federal land or extraction. The trade-offs: 24 mi from the nearest metro and moderate natural-hazard risk.
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Muscatine County is a solid bolthole (59/100). Its strengths: decent rainfall (37.6″/yr) and almost no federal land or extraction. Watch-outs: 24 mi from the nearest metro and moderate natural-hazard risk.
Land in Muscatine County runs about $9,311 per acre, based on the latest county data.
Muscatine County gets about 37.6" of rain a year, with severe drought in roughly 5.9% of years.
The nearest major metro is about 24 miles away, and population density is 96.5 people per square mile.