Farmland Atlas · county record

Pinal County, Arizona

Pinal County, AZ: irrigated cash rent $183 an acre (2026); land and buildings $2,148 an acre in the 2022 census; crop insurance loss ratio 1.75 since 1989. County averages from public records, not an appraisal of any farm. FIPS 04021. Figures as of 2026-09-20.

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Every harvested cropland acre was irrigated as of the 2022 census, and 38 percent of that water came from groundwater in 2015.

Cash rent, non-irrigated

—

no dry rent published

Cash rent, irrigated

$183/ac

2026 county average
AZ median $266 · lowest of 3

Land and buildings

$2,148/ac

2022: what operators guessed land and buildings were worth
AZ median $1,597 · 6th highest of 12

Corn yield, median

—

fewer than 8 published county corn yields

Claims paid per $100 of coverage

$21.16

2016–2025, closed crop years
AZ median $8.43 · highest of 5

Farmland rented

21%

2022 census, rented from others
AZ median 20% · 6th highest 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.

Irrigated, 2026$183/acno dry rent published

Land value

Land and buildings, 2022$2,148/acoperators' own estimate, not a sale price

Census 2012$2,379/ac

Census 2017$2,764/ac

Change 2017 to 2022−22.3%−4.9% a year, nominal

Dry rent ÷ census value— NASS published no non-irrigated cash rent for this county in 2022

Corn yield

County corn yield— fewer than 8 published county corn yields

Crop insurance record

Claims paid divided by total premium (the farmer share plus the federal subsidy), each closed crop year since 1989. Above the dashed line, the county's insurance book paid out more than it took in. 2026, still open, is left out.

Claims paid per $100 of coverage, 2016–2025$21.16

Loss ratio, 2016–20252.12claims ÷ total premium

Loss ratio, 1989–20251.75$476.1 million paid

Years claims exceeded premium22 of 33

Worst year2024ratio 2.71

Largest causes of loss, 1989–2025irrigation failure 59% · area plans 19% · heat and drought 7%share of dollars paid

Drought and weather

Weeks per year, U.S. Drought Monitor, with half the county or more in D2 (severe) drought or worse.

D2 or worse for half the county, 2000–2025466 of 1,357 weeks34% of weeks

Year with the most D2+ weeks201452 weeks

Last five years, 2021–202589 weeks

July average of daily lows, 2017–202677.2 °F1991–2020 normal 75.3 °F

Trend in July lows since 1976+0.88 °F a decadewarming

Rain, April to September5.1 in1991–2020 normal

Days with hail 1 inch or larger1.2 a yearreports, 2010–2025; a zero is no report, not proof of no hail

Land, water and programs

Harvested cropland irrigated, 2022100%

Drained by tile, 20221% of cropland3,517 ac

Farmed no-till, 20222% of cropland4,800 ac

Cover crops, 20221% of cropland3,605 ac

Acres enrolled in the Conservation Reserve Program, USDA FSA, by fiscal year.

CRP enrolled, 20250 ac

Irrigation wells on record2,678Arizona DWR well registry (Wells55), not cancelled

Median well depth750 ft

Solar and wind operating, 20251,441.4 MW solar · 0 MW windnameplate, EIA Form 860

Cattle and calves, 2022273,261−7.1% since 2017

Farmland rented from others, 202221%census tenure, owned plus rented acres in farms

Next door

County	Irr. rent	Land value	Claims per $100
Pinal County	$183	$2,148	$21.16
Gila County	—	$356	—
Graham County	$184 2025	$736	$9.76
Maricopa County	$266	$7,203	$8.43
Pima County	$171 2025	$504	$5.92
Median next door	$266 1 co.	$620	$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. Pinal 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/pinal-county

Every 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.

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