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For example, perhaps 25 miles from Spokane, Wa would be safe, but 80 miles from St Louis might not be.

Live near Little Rock with a very high dark-skinned "Amish" population if you get my drift. Hence owning a couple of belt-feds (LEGAL ATF form 3&4'd!) If SHTF, gonna have to bug out via rail old rail road head and fire lane and book 120 miles up to Harrison, AR in the Ozarks.

Society has about 48-72 hours before the vampires come out and chaos reigns. Awareness and Prepardness will cause most of the good guys to survive.....after 72 hrs though....all bets off, survival of the fittest if you haven't relocated.

Now you are getting warmer. The 20 preparedness items have to do more with cataclysmic disaster (earthquake, grid destruction etc.) than Great Depression. But, if the coming depression means that there will be layoffs and drastic cuts in funding our local police and fire departments, then as in Greece, civil disobedience and the related destruction trumps stored canned goods, water etc., which can be taken by force by marauding gangs and convenietly released masses of violent criminals from your local prison, even if you are able to take out several first.

The speed with which law enforcement public trust can disintegrate is frightening. See Athens where it is the public emplyees rioting and throwing fire bombs at uniformed peacekeepers, likely military. So it means making sure that your local defenders - sheriff's office, police and fire - stay in place even if the national picture is bleak. It also means that public employee unions like the SEIU are constantly monitored so that local law enforcers remain obligated to the community, not the union thugs.

I would be comfortable in your scenario but if one can get to the Kerr McGee, there is ton of coast line and several islands for isolation and safety.

Just got to figure out how to get all my stuff there and acquire a boat.

Still, being on an island provides a rather large moat. Firewood is a problem.