Iowa · Off-grid & homestead potential
Story County is a solid bolthole (53/100). Its strengths are almost no federal land or extraction and decent rainfall (36.3″/yr). The trade-offs: elevated natural-hazard exposure and 33 mi from the nearest metro.
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Story County is a solid bolthole (53/100). Its strengths: almost no federal land or extraction and decent rainfall (36.3″/yr). Watch-outs: elevated natural-hazard exposure and 33 mi from the nearest metro.
Land in Story County runs about $10,914 per acre, based on the latest county data.
Story County gets about 36.3" of rain a year, with severe drought in roughly 13.2% of years.
The nearest major metro is about 33 miles away, and population density is 172.2 people per square mile.