Community suitability of Louisiana, United States Of America
Highly suitable confidence B · live score 82
86
best land · p90
92%
good land
—
one block
How each domain holds up
Governance, safety & tenure 78
Economy & cost 95
Society, freedom & health 88
Land & water 78
Climate, growing & hazards 84
Autonomy & access 86
Where it pushes back
Land cover & degradationWater availability & qualityGrowing conditions
Within Louisiana — 64 sub-regions
Estimated finer-grained reads from the same open data. Phase-1, not yet verified.
Highly suitable 85
St. Helena
strongest Economy & cost (95) ·
weakest Land & water (73)
pushes back: Water availability & quality
Highly suitable 85
Tangipahoa
strongest Autonomy & access (97) ·
weakest Land & water (73)
pushes back: Water availability & quality
Highly suitable 85
Highly suitable 84
Allen
strongest Economy & cost (95) ·
weakest Land & water (76)
pushes back: Water availability & quality
Highly suitable 83
De Soto
pushes back: Soil quality
Highly suitable 83
East Feliciana
pushes back: Water availability & quality
Highly suitable 83
Evangeline
pushes back: Water availability & quality
Highly suitable 83
Lincoln
pushes back: Soil quality
Highly suitable 83
Natchitoches
pushes back: Soil quality
Highly suitable 83
Sabine
pushes back: Land cover & degradation
Highly suitable 83
St. Landry
pushes back: Water availability & quality
Highly suitable 83
Washington
pushes back: Water availability & quality
Highly suitable 83
Webster
pushes back: Soil quality
Highly suitable 83
West Feliciana
pushes back: Water availability & quality
Highly suitable 83
Avoyelles
pushes back: Water availability & quality
Highly suitable 82
Beauregard
pushes back: Soil quality
Highly suitable 82
Iberville
pushes back: Water availability & quality
Highly suitable 82
Pointe Coupee
pushes back: Water availability & quality
Highly suitable 82
Red River
pushes back: Soil quality
Highly suitable 82
St. Tammany
pushes back: Land cover & degradation
Highly suitable 82
Assumption
pushes back: Coastal risk
Highly suitable 81
Bossier
pushes back: Land cover & degradation
Highly suitable 81
Caldwell
pushes back: Accessibility
Moderately suitable 81
Grant
pushes back: Land cover & degradation
Moderately suitable 81
Jefferson Davis
pushes back: Coastal risk
Moderately suitable 81
Livingston
pushes back: Water availability & quality
Highly suitable 81
Rapides
pushes back: Water availability & quality
Moderately suitable 81
Union
pushes back: Soil quality
Moderately suitable 81
Winn
pushes back: Soil quality
Highly suitable 81
Calcasieu
pushes back: Coastal risk
Moderately suitable 80
Catahoula
pushes back: Accessibility
Moderately suitable 80
Concordia
pushes back: Water availability & quality
Moderately suitable 80
Jackson
pushes back: Soil quality
Moderately suitable 80
Lafourche
pushes back: Coastal risk
Moderately suitable 80
LaSalle
pushes back: Accessibility
Moderately suitable 80
Richland
pushes back: Accessibility
Moderately suitable 80
St. Martin
pushes back: Coastal risk
Moderately suitable 80
Vermilion
pushes back: Coastal risk
Moderately suitable 80
Vernon
pushes back: Soil quality
Moderately suitable 80
Franklin
pushes back: Accessibility
Moderately suitable 79
Ouachita
pushes back: Land cover & degradation
Moderately suitable 79
St. James
pushes back: Coastal risk
Moderately suitable 79
Caddo
pushes back: Accessibility
Moderately suitable 78
St. Mary
pushes back: Coastal risk
Moderately suitable 78
Tensas
pushes back: Accessibility
Moderately suitable 78
West Carroll
pushes back: Accessibility
Moderately suitable 78
Acadia
pushes back: Coastal risk
Moderately suitable 77
Iberia
pushes back: Coastal risk
Moderately suitable 77
Morehouse
pushes back: Accessibility
Moderately suitable 77
Madison
pushes back: Accessibility
Moderately suitable 76
St. Charles
pushes back: Land cover & degradation
Moderately suitable 76
St. John the Baptist
pushes back: Land cover & degradation
Moderately suitable 76
Ascension
pushes back: Coastal risk
Moderately suitable 75
East Carroll
pushes back: Accessibility
Moderately suitable 75
Plaquemines
pushes back: Land cover & degradation
Moderately suitable 73
Terrebonne
pushes back: Land cover & degradation
Moderately suitable 73
Cameron
pushes back: Land cover & degradation
Moderately suitable 72
St. Bernard
pushes back: Land cover & degradation
Moderately suitable 71
West Baton Rouge
pushes back: Accessibility
Moderately suitable 71
Jefferson
pushes back: Land cover & degradation
Moderately suitable 68
East Baton Rouge
pushes back: Accessibility
Moderately suitable 66
Orleans
pushes back: Land cover & degradation
Moderately suitable 64
Lafayette
pushes back: Accessibility
Moderately suitable 61
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
Monetary & capital sovereigntycountry A IMF/World Bank, Chinn-Ito
Personal freedomcountry A Cato/Fraser Human Freedom Index
Healthcare qualitycountry B WHO GHO
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
Connectivity A Ookla + ITU (+ Starlink)
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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