Pennsylvania · Off-grid & homestead potential
Lancaster County is a marginal bolthole (45/100). Its strengths are abundant rainfall (45.9″/yr) with little drought and almost no federal land or extraction. The trade-offs: elevated natural-hazard exposure and real distance from any metro (54 mi).
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Lancaster County is a marginal bolthole (45/100). Its strengths: abundant rainfall (45.9″/yr) with little drought and almost no federal land or extraction. Watch-outs: elevated natural-hazard exposure and real distance from any metro (54 mi).
Land in Lancaster County runs about $21,633 per acre, based on the latest county data.
Lancaster County gets about 45.9" of rain a year, with severe drought in roughly 1.1% of years.
The nearest major metro is about 54 miles away, and population density is 591.8 people per square mile.