Kentucky · Off-grid & homestead potential
Letcher County is a strong bolthole (73/100). Its strengths are abundant rainfall (48.9″/yr) with little drought and cheap to buy into (typical home $73k). The trade-offs: elevated natural-hazard exposure.
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Letcher County is a strong bolthole (73/100). Its strengths: abundant rainfall (48.9″/yr) with little drought and cheap to buy into (typical home $73k). Watch-outs: elevated natural-hazard exposure.
Land in Letcher County runs about $3,563 per acre, based on the latest county data.
Letcher County gets about 48.9" of rain a year, with severe drought in roughly 1.4% of years.
The nearest major metro is about 99 miles away, and population density is 60.4 people per square mile.