Pima County, Arizona
Pima County, AZ: irrigated cash rent $171 an acre (2025); land and buildings $504 an acre in the 2022 census; crop insurance loss ratio 0.76 since 1995. County averages from public records, not an appraisal of any farm. FIPS 04019. Figures as of 2026-10-14.
Pima County had no acres published in farms in the 2022 census. County averages here describe very little farmland; read them with care.
too few 2025 county surveys in the state to compare
AZ median $1,597
AZ median $8.43
All the cropland here is irrigated, and 62 percent of the water comes from the ground. Heat and drought moved into crop insurance claims, rising from 0 percent in 1989-1999 to 18 percent in 2020-2025. The loss ratio for 2016-2025 was 1.11, meaning claims ran over premiums paid. Land value fell 4.4 percent from 2017 to 2022, while irrigated ground stayed essential to farming here.
Cash rent
Dollars per acre, USDA NASS county survey. A break in a line is a year with no published survey.
Every published Arizona county rate, side by side: Arizona cash rent by county.
Land value
The census value is this county's, from 2022. The survey figures are the Arizona average for 2026, from the USDA NASS Land Values report. NASS publishes that survey by state, not by county, so this page does not scale one into the other.
Corn yield
Crop insurance record
Claims paid divided by total premium (the farmer share plus the federal subsidy), each closed crop year since 1995. 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.
Rain so far this year in Arizona, county by county
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pima County | $171 2025 | $504 | $5.92 |
| Cochise County | $93 2024 | $2,695 | $7.67 |
| Graham County | $184 2025 | $736 | $9.76 |
| Maricopa County | $266 | $7,203 | $8.43 |
| Pinal County | $183 | $2,148 | $21.16 |
| Santa Cruz County | n/a | $2,575 | n/a |
| Yuma County | $747 | $8,662 | $6.98 |
| Median next door | $266 | $2,635 | $8.43 |
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. Pima County, Arizona. Figures as of 2026-10-14, from USDA NASS, USDA RMA, USDA FSA, the U.S. Drought Monitor and NOAA. https://agsist.com/farmland-atlas/arizona/pima-countyEvery figure is a county average from the sources named below. Rent ranks count every county with a published rent in the same survey year, within the state (the same counties as the state rent page); other ranks count counties with 10,000 acres or more in farms. 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.