Southeast Fairbanks Census Area, Alaska
Southeast Fairbanks Census Area, AK: crop insurance loss ratio 0.83 since 1996. County averages from public records, not an appraisal of any farm. FIPS 02240. Figures as of 2026-09-20.
Southeast Fairbanks Census Area had no acres published in farms in the 2022 census. County averages here describe very little farmland; read them with care.
Crop insurance indemnities here total $1.6 million over 1996-2025, closed crop years, with freeze and frost the largest cause at 41 percent. Heat and drought share of those losses moved from 96 percent in 1989-1999 to 7 percent in 2000-2009 to 32 percent in 2010-2019 to 32 percent in 2020-2025. Drought has been rare on the ground: severe drought or worse covered at least 50 percent of the county in only 2 of 1357 weeks since 2000, and none of those weeks fell in 2021-2025. July nightly lows average 45 F for 2017-2026 against a 1991-2020 normal of 44.8 F, with a long-term trend of 0.01 F per decade and no clear direction.
Cash rent
Land value
Corn yield
Crop insurance record
Claims paid divided by total premium (the farmer share plus the federal subsidy), each closed crop year since 1993. Above the dashed line, the county's insurance book paid out more than it took in. 2026, still open, is left out.
Drought and weather
Weeks per year, U.S. Drought Monitor, with half the county or more in D2 (severe) drought or worse.
Land, water and programs
Next door
| County |
|---|
| Southeast Fairbanks Census Area |
| Denali Borough |
| Fairbanks North Star Borough |
| Matanuska-Susitna Borough |
| Valdez-Cordova Census Area |
| Yukon-Koyukuk Census Area |
| Median next door |
Counties that share a stretch of boundary. An older rent carries its year and stays out of the median.
Cite this page
AGSIST Farmland Atlas. Southeast Fairbanks Census Area, Alaska. Figures as of 2026-09-20, from USDA NASS, USDA RMA, USDA FSA, the U.S. Drought Monitor and NOAA. https://agsist.com/farmland-atlas/alaska/southeast-fairbanks-census-areaEvery figure is a county average from the sources named below. Ranks count counties with 10,000 acres or more in farms, in the same survey year for rent, within the state. Methods: how each figure is built. Downloads: all counties, CSV.
Sources, dates and arithmetic
"Figures as of" is the date this page's numbers last changed; it moves only when a figure on the page does. Source files and their retrieval dates are listed on the data page.
Rent: USDA NASS Cash Rents Survey, county. Land value: Census of Agriculture, operators' estimate of land and buildings. Yield: NASS county corn yields, trend fitted here over every published year since 2008. Loss ratio: claims (indemnity) divided by total premium, USDA RMA Summary of Business, 1989 on, open crop year left out. Drought: U.S. Drought Monitor, weeks with half the county or more in D2 or worse. July lows: NOAA nClimDiv county monthly minimum temperature. A dash means the record does not carry the figure or the source withheld it; the reason is printed beside it.