U.S. Land Atlas methodology

What the score measures

The Strategic Potential Score is the public name for the U.S. Strategic

Optionality Index. It is a county-level screen for durable infrastructure,

workforce, resource, and resilience advantages that may support several future

strategic industries. It is designed for early comparison and research, not

final site selection.

The overall score uses eleven equal-weight pillars and is published exactly to

two decimal places. The free category summaries are derived display bands; they

do not change the overall score:

• **Power & grid:** grid score, generation score
• **Transportation:** highway score, rail score v03, gateway logistics score v13
• **Water:** water score v10
• **Geology & resources:** geology score v11, resource optionality score v12, feedstock connectivity score
• **Workforce:** workforce readiness score v14
• **Climate resilience:** climate resilience score v15

Category values below 33.333 are Low, values from 33.333 through 66.666 are

Medium, and values at or above 66.667 are High. Exact underlying pillar and

category values are deliberately excluded from the Free public payload.

Model version: USOI v0.15. Score date:

2026-08-17. Data vintages are source-specific and documented in

the 79-record source registry.

Scores are national relative screening percentiles on a 0-100 scale. They are not forecasts, valuations, engineering findings, or guarantees of project feasibility.