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Del Norte County, California

Del Norte County, CA: irrigated cash rent $620 an acre (2026); land and buildings $10,206 an acre in the 2022 census. County averages from public records, not an appraisal of any farm. FIPS 06015. Figures as of 2026-09-20.

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

Land in Del Norte County carried a census market value of $10,206 per acre in 2022, up 22.7 percent over 2017-2022 at 4.2 percent a year. July nightly lows averaged 54.9 F in 2017-2026 against a 1991-2020 normal of 53.1 F, with a warming trend of 0.87 F per decade since 1976; no July since 1900 has averaged a nightly low at or above 70 F. Groundwater supplied 71 percent of irrigation water in 2015, and the county spent 180 of 1357 weeks in severe drought or worse from 2000-2025, with 2020 the worst year at 38 weeks.

Cash rent, non-irrigated
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no dry rent published
Cash rent, irrigated
$620/ac
2026 county average
CA median $431
Land and buildings
$10,206/ac
2022: what operators guessed land and buildings were worth
CA median $11,471
Corn yield, median
—
fewer than 8 published county corn yields
Claims paid per $100 of coverage
—
RMA Summary of Business has no rows for this county
Farmland rented
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suppressed by NASS

Cash rent

Irrigated, 2026$620/acno dry rent published

Land value

Land and buildings, 2022$10,206/acoperators' own estimate, not a sale price
Census 2012$8,716/ac
Census 2017$8,315/ac
Change 2017 to 2022+22.7%+4.2% 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

Premium and payouts— RMA Summary of Business has no rows for this county

Drought and weather

2000200520102015202020250380

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, 2000–2025180 of 1,357 weeks13% of weeks
Year with the most D2+ weeks202038 weeks
Last five years, 2021–202518 weeks
July average of daily lows, 2017–202654.9 °F1991–2020 normal 53.1 °F
Trend in July lows since 1976+0.87 °F a decadewarming
Rain, April to September13.7 in1991–2020 normal; last ten years 88% of it
Days with hail 1 inch or larger0.0 a yearreports, 2010–2025; a zero is no report, not proof of no hail

Land, water and programs

Harvested cropland irrigated, 2022— NASS suppressed the irrigated acres to protect individual farms

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

CRP enrolled, 20250 ac
Irrigation wells on record99California DWR well completion reports (new wells)
Median well depth42 ft
Cattle and calves, 20227,047−27.2% since 2017

Next door

CountyDry rentIrr. rentLand valueClaims per $100
Del Norte County—$620$10,206—
Humboldt County$22 2024$405$4,578—
Siskiyou County$21 2023$250$4,174$27.49
Curry County, OR—$225$5,104—
Josephine County, OR$108 2025$132 2025$20,397$11.41
Median next door—$250$4,841$19.45 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. Del Norte County, California. 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/california/del-norte-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.