Nome Census Area, AK Shrink-Swell Risk

Nome Census Area, AK has no shrink-swell rating on file

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This county has no matching soil survey data - too rare a gap to guess at. A local geotechnical report is the only way to know. Nome Census Area, AK covers 22,970 square miles and is home to 9,836 people, but the dominant soil here carries no SSURGO linear-extensibility data to report.

This is a county figure, not a lot figure

USDA's survey covers the whole of Nome Census Area, AK at once, not any single address. The real answer for one lot is still a site-specific geotechnical report, running about $1,000-$5,000 (typically near $2,700).

Report cost vs. repair cost

With no SSURGO reading to go on, Nome Census Area has no county-level steer either way on foundation risk. A geotechnical report typically runs $1,000-$5,000; a real foundation repair, if it comes to that, runs $5,000-$15,000. The report is the cheap way to find out first.

For contrast

Orleans Parish, LA carries this site's most-constrained reading. Elko County, NV and Somerset County, MD are worth a look for comparison.

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More of Alaska

Every county in Alaska is on this site, including Matanuska-Susitna Borough, AK and Aleutians East Borough, AK. The full underlying dataset is downloadable directly, one row per county.