County Freedom Index

Launch operations

Launch Readiness

A single project health view for live-state data coverage, generated pages, SEO plumbing, and repeatable QA checks before publishing Freedom Map updates.

Live counties120
Verified117
Sourced3
Citation URLs726
Sitemap routes391
Audited routes/files394
Full source layers6

Live states

Launch Coverage By State

live64 counties

Colorado

The launch dataset and prototype for county-level alternative living research.

Verified
64
Sourced
0
Citations
132
live23 counties

Wyoming

The first expansion dataset with sourced county-level research for Wyoming's rural land and alternative living audience.

Verified
23
Sourced
0
Citations
186
live33 counties

New Mexico

The second expansion dataset for off-grid, Earthship, homesteading, and rural land research.

Verified
30
Sourced
3
Citations
408
SEO

Search Plumbing Ready

verified

Sitemap, robots, llms.txt, metadata, breadcrumbs, and JSON-LD are wired into the launch routes. 3 special SEO files are checked separately from content routes.

sitemap.xmlrobots.txtllms.txt
QA

Latest QA Report Available

verified

Latest fallback QA checked 23 routes with 0 route issues. Generated Jun 4, 2026, 4:00 AM.

MethodologyDisclaimerGuides

Manual approval

Pre-Launch Gates

These are the human review steps that still matter after automated checks pass. Treat them as the final publish checklist before pointing a real domain at the project.

Data confidencemanual review

Spot-Check Top Ranking Counties By State

Validate the top county scores, land signals, notes, and citation links in each live state with a human gut check before opening new expansion content to search traffic.

Trust languageverified

Keep The Discovery Disclaimer Visible

Confirm users see county-level discovery and parcel-level verification language on homepage, guides, rankings, comparisons, and county profiles.

SEO filesverified

Confirm Search Plumbing On Production Domain

After deployment, verify sitemap, robots, llms.txt, metadata, breadcrumbs, and JSON-LD resolve with the final production domain.

Deploymentmanual review

Deploy And Verify The Live URL

Run final production checks, deploy to the chosen host, set the production domain, and manually open the highest-value launch routes.

Source freshness

Latest Source Snapshots

Jun 4, 2026current

Land market

LandSearch county listing snapshots

Coverage
120/120
Cadence
Monthly
2024 estimate releasecurrent

Population

U.S. Census county estimates

Coverage
120/120
Cadence
Annual
2024current

Broadband

ACS table B28002 via Census Reporter

Coverage
120/120
Cadence
Annual
1991-2020 normalscurrent

Climate

NOAA ACIS gridded climate data via RCC

Coverage
120/120
Cadence
Annual or source-change
1991-2020 normalscurrent

Snowfall

NOAA / station-based snowfall review

Coverage
120/120
Cadence
Annual or source-change
2001-2020current

Solar

NASA POWER climatology

Coverage
120/120
Cadence
Annual or source-change
2026current

Public land

State and federal GIS public land layers

Coverage
120/120
Cadence
Annual or source-change

Maintenance plan

Refresh Cadence

Monthly

Land market

Dataset refresh

Refresh LandSearch county snapshots and re-export the review CSVs before any major content push.

Quarterly

County rule research

Editorial review

Recheck top county planning, zoning, building, RV/camping, water, and septic links.

Annual

Population and broadband

Census update

Update Census county estimates and ACS broadband tables when new annual releases are available.

Annual or source-change

Climate, snowfall, solar, public land

Data pipeline

Refresh when source datasets update or when county boundary/source methods change.

Next data upgrade

Utility accessibility

Research backlog

Replace the draft editorial score with sourced road, utility, service-territory, or parcel-access data.

Latest QA report

Route Smoke Results

Base URLhttp://127.0.0.1:3024
Routes checked23
Route issues0
Browser screenshotsBlocked
/200pass
/counties200pass
/counties/saguache-county-colorado200pass
/counties/costilla-county-colorado200pass
/regions200pass
/regions/san-luis-valley200pass
/guides200pass
/methodology200pass
/launch-readiness200pass
/highest-freedom-score-counties200pass
/best-counties-for-tiny-homes200pass
/best-counties-for-rv-living200pass

Manual review

Latest Launch Gate Review

Date2026-06-04
Statuslaunch-prep ready
Routes reviewed9
Base URLhttp://127.0.0.1:3020

Findings

  • Key launch routes loaded successfully in the in-app browser review pass.
  • No horizontal overflow was detected on reviewed routes.
  • County-level discovery and parcel-level verification language appeared on reviewed paths.
  • Homepage, county profile, guide, ranking, comparison, and launch-readiness pages were visually coherent.

Remaining Before Public Deployment

  • Re-run a manual visual review after the next deployment.
  • Install analytics if a lightweight provider has not been added yet.
  • Run one final production-domain route smoke check after deployment.
  • Submit sitemap.xml to Google Search Console and Bing Webmaster Tools.

Command checklist

Pre-Launch Commands

npm run data:validatenpm run data:exportnpm run routes:auditnpm run typechecknpm run buildnpm run qa:previewQA_BASE_URL=http://127.0.0.1:3004 npm run qa:routesnpm run qa:visual:previewPRODUCTION_BASE_URL=https://countyfreedomindex.com npm run qa:production