Community suitability of Hedmark, Norway
Moderately suitable confidence B · live score 72
79
best land · p90
95%
good land
—
one block
How each domain holds up
Governance, safety & tenure 84
Society, freedom & health 95
Land & water 74
Climate, growing & hazards 72
Autonomy & access 62
Where it pushes back
Food & forage diversityGrowing conditionsAccessibility
Within Hedmark — 22 sub-regions
Estimated finer-grained reads from the same open data. Phase-1, not yet verified.
Stange
strongest Society, freedom & health (95) ·
weakest Land & water (73)
pushes back: Soil quality
Highly suitable 82
Eidskog
strongest Society, freedom & health (95) ·
weakest Land & water (74)
pushes back: Soil quality
Moderately suitable 81
Loeten
strongest Society, freedom & health (95) ·
weakest Land & water (75)
pushes back: Soil quality
Moderately suitable 81
Nord-odal
strongest Society, freedom & health (95) ·
weakest Land & water (73)
pushes back: Soil quality
Highly suitable 81
Moderately suitable 81
Grue
pushes back: Soil quality
Moderately suitable 80
Kongsvinger
pushes back: Soil quality
Moderately suitable 80
Aasnes
pushes back: Soil quality
Moderately suitable 78
Elverum
pushes back: Soil quality
Moderately suitable 78
Hamar
pushes back: Growing conditions
Moderately suitable 78
Ringsaker
pushes back: Growing conditions
Moderately suitable 77
Vaaler
pushes back: Soil quality
Moderately suitable 76
Aamot
pushes back: Growing conditions
Moderately suitable 71
Trysil
pushes back: Food & forage diversity
Moderately suitable 70
Stor-elvdal
pushes back: Food & forage diversity
Moderately suitable 69
Tynset
pushes back: Food & forage diversity
Moderately suitable 69
Alvdal
pushes back: Food & forage diversity
Moderately suitable 67
Tolga
pushes back: Food & forage diversity
Moderately suitable 67
Folldal
pushes back: Food & forage diversity
Moderately suitable 65
Os
pushes back: Food & forage diversity
Moderately suitable 65
Rendalen
pushes back: Food & forage diversity
Moderately suitable 65
Engerdal
pushes back: Accessibility
Marginally suitable 58
Reading the land, criterion by criterion
Each signal names the open dataset behind it and how measured it is.
Seed & agricultural autonomycountry C UPOV membership proxy
Governance & corruptioncountry A World Bank WGI + Transparency CPI
Cost of living, labour & landcountry A World Bank PPP, ILOSTAT
Disease / vector burden A Malaria Atlas + dengue Index P
Soil quality A SoilGrids (ISRIC)
Water availability & quality A WRI Aqueduct + AQUASTAT
Terrain & buildability A SRTM / NASADEM
Land cover & degradation A ESA WorldCover + Global Forest Watch
Biodiversity & alignment B Biodiversity Intactness Index
Climate & natural hazards A ThinkHazard + NASA FIRMS + USGS
Growing conditions A CHELSA / FAO GAEZ
Food & forage diversity B FAO GAEZ crop suitability + GLW
Coastal risk B Climate Central CoastalDEM
Energy potential A Global Solar Atlas + Global Wind Atlas
Natural building materials B SoilGrids clay + forest + geology
Environmental quality A SEDAC PM2.5 + VIIRS night-lights
Accessibility A Malaria Atlas friction surface
Remoteness / surroundings A GPWv4 population density
Contamination legacy C Maus mining polygons + WRI power plants
Phase-1 desk screening
These are desk numbers from open data. Soil tests, water rights and the welcome of actual neighbours all wait for a visit — we'd rather say so than pretend.
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