Pennsylvania · Off-grid & homestead potential
Lehigh County is a marginal bolthole (41/100). Its strengths are abundant rainfall (49″/yr) with little drought and almost no federal land or extraction. The trade-offs: little isolation — a major metro is just 6 mi away and elevated natural-hazard exposure.
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Lehigh County is a marginal bolthole (41/100). Its strengths: abundant rainfall (49″/yr) with little drought and almost no federal land or extraction. Watch-outs: little isolation — a major metro is just 6 mi away and elevated natural-hazard exposure.
Land in Lehigh County runs about $9,925 per acre, based on the latest county data.
Lehigh County gets about 49" of rain a year, with severe drought in roughly 1.7% of years.
The nearest major metro is about 6 miles away, and population density is 1,093.9 people per square mile.