Apache County, Arizona
Apache County, AZ: irrigated cash rent $53 an acre (2025); land and buildings $329 an acre in the 2022 census. County averages from public records, not an appraisal of any farm. FIPS 04001. Figures as of 2026-09-20.
The July nightly low has been warming at 0.72 F per decade since 1976, reaching 58.3 F in 2017-2026 against a 1991-2020 normal of 57 F. Severe drought or worse covered the county during 628 of 1357 weeks in 2000-2025, or 46.3 percent of that span, with 2004 seeing 52 such weeks. Census land and buildings ran $329 per acre in 2022, up 19.6 percent over 2017-2022 at 3.7 percent a year.
too few 2025 county surveys in the state to compare
AZ median $1,597 · 2nd lowest of 12
AZ median 20% · 2nd lowest of 13
Cash rent
Dollars per acre, USDA NASS county survey. A break in a line is a year with no published survey; nothing is drawn across it.
Land value
Corn yield
Crop insurance record
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
Acres enrolled in the Conservation Reserve Program, USDA FSA, by fiscal year.
Next door
| County | Irr. rent | Land value | Claims per $100 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apache County | $53 2025 | $329 | — |
| Graham County | $184 2025 | $736 | $9.76 |
| Greenlee County | — | $5,515 | — |
| Navajo County | $113 2023 | $325 | — |
| Catron County, NM | — | $620 | — |
| Cibola County, NM | — | $406 | — |
| McKinley County, NM | — | $605 | — |
| San Juan County, NM | $177 | $745 | $3.65 |
| San Juan County, UT | — | $748 | $21.50 |
| Median next door | $177 1 co. | $678 | $9.76 |
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. Apache County, Arizona. 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/arizona/apache-countyEvery 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.