Eagle County, Colorado
Eagle County, CO: irrigated cash rent $74 an acre (2024); land and buildings $6,632 an acre in the 2022 census. County averages from public records, not an appraisal of any farm. FIPS 08037. Figures as of 2026-09-20.
Eagle County carries a land value of $6,632 per acre as of 2022, up 100.4 percent over 2017-2022, or 14.9 percent a year. Irrigation covers 99 percent of harvested cropland, drawing entirely from surface water, not groundwater. The county spent 256 of 1357 weeks in severe drought or worse over 2000-2025, with 2021 reaching 51 weeks. The July nightly low trend since 1976 runs 0.41 F per decade warming, and the 2017-2026 average sits at 47.5 F against a 1991-2020 normal of 46.5 F.
too few 2024 county surveys in the state to compare
CO median $2,765 · 9th highest of 58
CO median 30% · 27th lowest of 57
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.
Land value
Corn yield
Crop insurance record
Drought and weather
Weeks per year, U.S. Drought Monitor, with half the county or more in D2 (severe) drought or worse.
Land, water and programs
Acres enrolled in the Conservation Reserve Program, USDA FSA, by fiscal year.
Next door
| County | Dry rent | Irr. rent | Land value |
|---|---|---|---|
| Eagle County | — | $74 2024 | $6,632 |
| Garfield County | — | $68 2025 | $3,654 |
| Grand County | — | — | $2,754 |
| Lake County | — | — | $2,701 |
| Pitkin County | — | — | $16,058 |
| Routt County | $17 | $42 2025 | $4,101 |
| Summit County | — | — | $8,928 |
| Median next door | $17 1 co. | — | $3,878 |
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. Eagle County, Colorado. 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/colorado/eagle-countyEvery 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.