Community suitability of Utah, United States Of America
Moderately suitable confidence B · live score 68
77
best land · p90
76%
good land
—
one block
How each domain holds up
Governance, safety & tenure 78
Economy & cost 95
Society, freedom & health 88
Land & water 70
Climate, growing & hazards 67
Autonomy & access 43
Where it pushes back
Food & forage diversityAccessibilityWater availability & quality
Within Utah — 29 sub-regions
Estimated finer-grained reads from the same open data. Phase-1, not yet verified.
Wasatch
strongest Economy & cost (95) ·
weakest Climate, growing & hazards (74)
pushes back: Food & forage diversity
Moderately suitable 81
Cache
strongest Economy & cost (95) ·
weakest Climate, growing & hazards (73)
pushes back: Food & forage diversity
Moderately suitable 80
Morgan
strongest Autonomy & access (97) ·
weakest Climate, growing & hazards (74)
pushes back: Food & forage diversity
Moderately suitable 80
Utah
strongest Economy & cost (95) ·
weakest Climate, growing & hazards (74)
pushes back: Food & forage diversity
Moderately suitable 78
Davis
strongest Autonomy & access (96) ·
weakest Land & water (69)
pushes back: Land cover & degradation
Moderately suitable 77
Summit
pushes back: Food & forage diversity
Moderately suitable 77
Weber
pushes back: Food & forage diversity
Moderately suitable 77
Sanpete
pushes back: Food & forage diversity
Moderately suitable 76
Rich
pushes back: Food & forage diversity
Moderately suitable 75
Sevier
pushes back: Food & forage diversity
Moderately suitable 73
Carbon
pushes back: Food & forage diversity
Moderately suitable 72
Duchesne
pushes back: Food & forage diversity
Moderately suitable 72
Grand
pushes back: Food & forage diversity
Moderately suitable 71
Washington
pushes back: Food & forage diversity
Moderately suitable 70
Piute
pushes back: Food & forage diversity
Moderately suitable 69
Box Elder
pushes back: Food & forage diversity
Moderately suitable 67
Salt Lake
pushes back: Food & forage diversity
Moderately suitable 67
Daggett
pushes back: Food & forage diversity
Moderately suitable 66
Emery
pushes back: Food & forage diversity
Moderately suitable 66
Tooele
pushes back: Food & forage diversity
Moderately suitable 65
Uintah
pushes back: Food & forage diversity
Moderately suitable 65
Iron
pushes back: Food & forage diversity
Moderately suitable 64
Juab
pushes back: Food & forage diversity
Moderately suitable 64
Millard
pushes back: Food & forage diversity
Moderately suitable 64
Wayne
pushes back: Food & forage diversity
Moderately suitable 62
Beaver
pushes back: Food & forage diversity
Moderately suitable 61
Garfield
pushes back: Accessibility
Marginally suitable 61
Kane
pushes back: Accessibility
Marginally suitable 60
San Juan
pushes back: Food & forage diversity
Marginally suitable 60
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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