Farmland Atlas · county record

Monroe County, Florida

Monroe County, FL: the public record carries few figures here. Each missing figure is shown with its reason. County averages from public records, not an appraisal of any farm. FIPS 12087. Figures as of 2026-09-20.

Open on the map Compare Printable sheet

July nights average 77.6 F for 2017-2026, against a 76.1 F normal for 1991-2020. The July nightly low trend since 1976 runs 0.58 F per decade, warming. Drought has touched at least 50 percent of the county in 81 of 1357 weeks from 2000-2025, worst in 2011 with 18 weeks, and 21 weeks from 2021-2025. There is no solar or wind operating or proposed in this county.

Cash rent, non-irrigated
—
county not in the NASS cash rents survey frame
Land and buildings
—
2022: what operators guessed land and buildings were worth
FL median $6,645
Rent as % of land value
—
not shown: land value suppressed for the census year
Corn yield, median
—
NASS publishes no county corn yield series for this county
Claims paid per $100 of coverage
—
RMA Summary of Business has no rows for this county
Farmland rented
—
suppressed by NASS

Cash rent

Cash rent— county not in the NASS cash rents survey frame

Land value

Land and buildings, 2022—/acoperators' own estimate, not a sale price
Dry rent ÷ census value— land value suppressed for the census year

Corn yield

County corn yield— NASS publishes no county corn yield series for this county

Crop insurance record

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

Drought and weather

20002005201020152020202501816

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, 2000–202581 of 1,357 weeks6% of weeks
Year with the most D2+ weeks201118 weeks
Last five years, 2021–202521 weeks
July average of daily lows, 2017–202677.6 °F1991–2020 normal 76.1 °F
Trend in July lows since 1976+0.58 °F a decadewarming
Rain, April to September37.6 in1991–2020 normal; last ten years 96% 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
Drained by tile, 2022none reported
Farmed no-till, 202282% of cropland60 ac
Cover crops, 2022none reported

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

CRP enrolled, 20250 ac

Next door

CountyIrr. rentLand valueClaims per $100
Monroe County———
Collier County$351 2025$6,076$7.03
Miami-Dade County$568 2023$50,161$5.77
Median next door—$28,119 2 co.$6.40 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. Monroe County, Florida. 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/florida/monroe-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.