Farmland Atlas · county record

Alpine County, California

Alpine County, CA: land and buildings $4,950 an acre in the 2022 census. County averages from public records, not an appraisal of any farm. FIPS 06003. Figures as of 2026-10-06.

Alpine County had no acres published in farms in the 2022 census. County averages here describe very little farmland; read them with care.

Cash rent, non-irrigated

n/a

county not in the NASS cash rents survey frame

Land and buildings

$4,950/ac

2022: what operators guessed land and buildings were worth
CA median $11,471

Rent as % of land value

n/a

not shown: NASS published no non-irrigated cash rent for this county in 2022

Corn yield

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NASS publishes no county corn yield series for this county

Claims paid per $100 of coverage

n/a

RMA Summary of Business has no rows for this county

Farmland rented

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suppressed by NASS

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The 2022 census put land and buildings at $4,950 per acre, up 8.2 percent over 2017-2022, or 1.6 percent a year. July nightly lows ran 50.8 F in 2017-2026 against a 1991-2020 normal of 48.9 F, with a warming trend of 0.91 F per decade since 1976; no July since 1900 has averaged a nightly low at or above 70 F. Severe drought covered the county 364 of 1357 weeks during 2000-2025, or 26.8 percent of that span, with 2015 reaching 52 weeks; the 2021-2025 period added 92 weeks.

Cash rent

Every published California county rate, side by side: California cash rent by county.

Cash rentCounty not in the NASS cash rents survey frame

Land value

Land and buildings, 2022$4,950/acoperators' own estimate, not a sale price

Census 2012$4,289/ac

Census 2017$4,573/ac

Change 2017 to 2022+8.2%+1.6% a year, nominal

Dry rent ÷ census valueNASS published no non-irrigated cash rent for this county in 2022

Corn yield

County corn yieldNASS publishes no county corn yield series for this county

Crop insurance record

Premium and payoutsRMA Summary of Business has no rows for this county

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, 2000–2025364 of 1,357 weeks27% of weeks

Year with the most D2+ weeks201552 weeks

Last five years, 2021–202592 weeks

July average of daily lows, 2017–202650.8 °F1991–2020 normal 48.9 °F

Trend in July lows since 1976+0.91 °F a decadewarming

Rain, April to September7.1 in1991–2020 normal; last ten years 92% of it

Days with hail 1 inch or larger0.1 a yearreports, 2010–2025; a zero is no report, not proof of no hail

Land, water and programs

Harvested cropland irrigated, 2022NASS published no harvested cropland for this county

Tile drainage and tillageCropland acres suppressed or not printed in the 2022 census

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

CRP enrolled, 20250 ac

Irrigation wells on record6California DWR well completion reports (new wells)

Median well depth270 ft

Next door

County	Dry rent	Irr. rent	Land value	Claims per $100
Alpine County	n/a	n/a	$4,950	n/a
Amador County	$65	$324 2025	$6,386	$10.90
Calaveras County	n/a	$700	$4,909	n/a
El Dorado County	$33	$900	$11,768	$17.78
Mono County	n/a	n/a	$3,138	n/a
Tuolumne County	$27 2025	n/a	$4,337	n/a
Douglas County, NV	n/a	n/a	$2,627	n/a
Median next door	$49 2 co.	$800 2 co.	$4,623	$14.34 2 co.

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. Alpine County, California. Figures as of 2026-10-06, from USDA NASS, USDA RMA, USDA FSA, the U.S. Drought Monitor and NOAA. https://agsist.com/farmland-atlas/california/alpine-county

Every 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.

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