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Siskiyou County, California

Siskiyou County, CA: non-irrigated cash rent $21 an acre (2023); land and buildings $4,174 an acre in the 2022 census. County averages from public records, not an appraisal of any farm. FIPS 06093. Figures as of 2026-10-14.

Cash rent, non-irrigated
$21/ac
2023 county average
too few 2023 county surveys in the state to compare
Cash rent, irrigated
$250/ac
2026 county average
CA median $437 · 4th lowest of 41
Land and buildings
$4,174/ac
2022: what operators guessed land and buildings were worth · CA cropland 2026: $18,430 (state survey)
CA median $11,471 · 5th lowest of 52
Corn yield
n/a
fewer than 8 published county corn yields
Claims paid per $100 of coverage
$27.49
2016–2025, closed crop years
CA median $7.31 · highest of 42
Farmland rented
29%
2022 census, rented from others
CA median 43% · 9th lowest of 55
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Cash rent

$0$50$100$150$200$250$3002010201520202025$35$21 dry$228$250 irrigated

Dollars per acre, USDA NASS county survey. A break in a line is a year with no published survey.

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

Non-irrigated, 2023$21/ac
Irrigated, 2026$250/ac
Pasture, 2026$13/ac

Insuring pasture or hay? See PRF rainfall insurance in Siskiyou County: its grids, county values and record.

Land value

Land and buildings, 2022$4,174/acoperators' own estimate, not a sale price
Census 2012$2,039/ac
Census 2017$3,066/ac
Change 2017 to 2022+36.1%+6.4% a year, nominal
Dry rent ÷ census valueNASS published no non-irrigated cash rent for this county in 2022
California cropland, 2026 state survey$18,430/ac+2.7% from 2025 · USDA NASS Land Values, state average
California farm real estate, 2026$14,100/acland and buildings, state average
California pasture, 2026$4,250/acstate average

The census value is this county's, from 2022. The survey figures are the California 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

County corn yieldFewer than 8 published county corn yields

Crop insurance record

200520102015202020250.284.091.541.00: claims equal premium

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$27.49
Loss ratio, 2016–20252.39claims ÷ total premium
Loss ratio, 1989–20251.70$93.3 million paid
Years claims exceeded premium10 of 20
Worst year2022ratio 4.09
Largest causes of loss, 1989–2025irrigation failure 52% · freeze 17% · heat and drought 9%share of dollars paid

Drought and weather

2000200520102015202020250520

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, 2000–2025332 of 1,304 weeks26% of weeks
Year with the most D2+ weeks202152 weeks
Last five years, 2020–2025152 weeks
July average of daily lows, 2017–202654.9 °F1991–2020 normal 52.6 °F
Trend in July lows since 1976+1.01 °F a decadewarming
Rain, April to September7.5 in1991–2020 normal; last ten years 84% of it
Days with hail 1 inch or larger0.6 a yearreports, 2010–2025; a zero is no report, not proof of no hail

Rain so far this year in California, county by county

Land, water and programs

Harvested cropland irrigated, 202291%
Drained by tile, 20223% of cropland4,729 ac
Farmed no-till, 20222% of cropland3,997 ac
Cover crops, 20223% of cropland5,487 ac
1986199119962001200620112016202160323,34349

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

CRP enrolled, 202549 ac
CRP expiring FY2027–20290 ac
Irrigation wells on record1,021California DWR well completion reports (new wells)
Median well depth165 ft
Cattle and calves, 202247,198−4.2% since 2017
Farmland rented from others, 202229%census tenure, owned plus rented acres in farms

Next door

CountyDry rentIrr. rentLand valueClaims per $100
Siskiyou County$21 2023$250$4,174$27.49
Del Norte Countyn/a$620$10,206n/a
Humboldt County$22 2024$405$4,578n/a
Modoc County$22 2024$303 2025$4,267$21.36
Shasta County$37$205$10,930$6.10
Trinity Countyn/an/a$2,661n/a
Jackson County, OR$48 2025$152$12,421$14.34
Josephine County, OR$108 2025$132 2025$20,397$11.41
Klamath County, ORn/a$258$2,623$33.63
Median next door$37 1 co.$258$7,392$14.34

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. Siskiyou County, California. 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/california/siskiyou-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.