Community suitability of Telemark, Norway
Moderately suitable confidence B · live score 71
82
best land · p90
89%
good land
—
one block
How each domain holds up
Governance, safety & tenure 84
Society, freedom & health 95
Land & water 76
Climate, growing & hazards 75
Autonomy & access 59
Where it pushes back
Food & forage diversityAccessibilityGrowing conditions
Within Telemark — 18 sub-regions
Estimated finer-grained reads from the same open data. Phase-1, not yet verified.
Bamble
strongest Society, freedom & health (95) ·
weakest Land & water (74)
pushes back: Soil quality
Moderately suitable 79
Krageroe
strongest Society, freedom & health (95) ·
weakest Land & water (75)
pushes back: Soil quality
Moderately suitable 79
Boe
strongest Society, freedom & health (95) ·
weakest Autonomy & access (74)
pushes back: Soil quality
Moderately suitable 77
Notodden
strongest Society, freedom & health (95) ·
weakest Land & water (76)
pushes back: Soil quality
Moderately suitable 77
Sauherad
strongest Society, freedom & health (95) ·
weakest Land & water (74)
pushes back: Soil quality
Moderately suitable 77
Drangedal
pushes back: Soil quality
Moderately suitable 76
Porsgrunn
pushes back: Soil quality
Moderately suitable 76
Siljan
pushes back: Soil quality
Moderately suitable 76
Skien
pushes back: Soil quality
Moderately suitable 76
Nissedal
pushes back: Soil quality
Moderately suitable 75
Nome
pushes back: Soil quality
Moderately suitable 75
Kviteseid
pushes back: Land cover & degradation
Moderately suitable 74
Seljord
pushes back: Growing conditions
Moderately suitable 73
Hjartdal
pushes back: Food & forage diversity
Moderately suitable 71
Fyresdal
pushes back: Food & forage diversity
Moderately suitable 70
Tokke
pushes back: Food & forage diversity
Moderately suitable 68
Tinn
pushes back: Accessibility
Moderately suitable 65
Vinje
pushes back: Accessibility
Marginally suitable 59
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.
Other regions in Norway
Compare nearby options, ranked by overall suitability.