Pennsylvania · Off-grid & homestead potential
Pike County is a solid bolthole (58/100). Its strengths are abundant rainfall (47.7″/yr) with little drought and low extraction and seizure exposure. The trade-offs: middling conditions for growing food and elevated natural-hazard exposure.
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Pike County is a solid bolthole (58/100). Its strengths: abundant rainfall (47.7″/yr) with little drought and low extraction and seizure exposure. Watch-outs: middling conditions for growing food and elevated natural-hazard exposure.
Land in Pike County runs about $3,130 per acre, based on the latest county data.
Pike County gets about 47.7" of rain a year, with severe drought in roughly 1.7% of years.
The nearest major metro is about 54 miles away, and population density is 112.4 people per square mile.