"Off the grid" means that you have no community delivered services. Vehicles & generators, wells and septic fields or lagoons, those are usual.
Many rural homes have an outdoor wood-burning furnace with a recirculating liquid for heat delivery.
If the Fort McMurray wildfire made your local news, about 20% of the city was burnt to the ground in just a couple of days.
That forest fire has now burned about 4,800 km^2. This is mountain country where the fires often run up the mountain sides
at 60-80 mph. Bottom land in the valley is all agricultural and in the Agricultural Land Reserve. You cannot subdivide.
Many homes in the forested lower parts of the mountain sides. The fire risk with nowhere to run was one of the biggest reasons that I didn't consider
a rural property/home. Plus, I didn't was to fight with a frozen well and a frozen sewage system at -30C in January.
Many rural homes have an outdoor wood-burning furnace with a recirculating liquid for heat delivery.
If the Fort McMurray wildfire made your local news, about 20% of the city was burnt to the ground in just a couple of days.
That forest fire has now burned about 4,800 km^2. This is mountain country where the fires often run up the mountain sides
at 60-80 mph. Bottom land in the valley is all agricultural and in the Agricultural Land Reserve. You cannot subdivide.
Many homes in the forested lower parts of the mountain sides. The fire risk with nowhere to run was one of the biggest reasons that I didn't consider
a rural property/home. Plus, I didn't was to fight with a frozen well and a frozen sewage system at -30C in January.