Twin Falls County, Idaho
Twin Falls County, ID: non-irrigated cash rent $50 an acre (2014); land and buildings $6,129 an acre in the 2022 census. County averages from public records, not an appraisal of any farm. FIPS 16083. Figures as of 2026-09-20.
Irrigated cash rent in 2026 stands at $319 per acre, and irrigation covers 99 percent of harvested cropland as of the 2022 census. Groundwater supplies 25 percent of irrigation water as of 2015, so most water comes from surface sources. Irrigation failure is the largest cause of crop insurance indemnities across closed crop years, at 42 percent of $56.0 million paid, with $23.4 million tied to that cause alone. Heat and drought's share of indemnities has moved differently across periods: 26 percent in 1989-1999, 32 percent in 2000-2009, 14 percent in 2010-2019, and 6 percent in 2020-2025. Land value rose 38.1 percent from 2017 to 2022, and the July nightly low has warmed 0.9 F per decade since 1976.
too few 2014 county surveys in the state to compare
ID median $179 · 6th highest of 32
ID median $3,689 · 8th highest of 42
ID median $5.70 · 9th lowest of 36
ID median 33% · 16th lowest of 42
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
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.
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 | Claims per $100 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Twin Falls County | — | $319 | $6,129 | $3.47 |
| Cassia County | $35 2024 | $405 | $4,486 | $2.51 |
| Elmore County | $34 2025 | $405 | $3,233 | $5.77 |
| Gooding County | — | $425 | $7,101 | $0.79 |
| Jerome County | — | $410 | $9,012 | $1.03 |
| Owyhee County | $21 2023 | $254 | $2,025 | $2.53 |
| Elko County, NV | — | $91 | $647 | — |
| Median next door | — | $405 | $3,860 | $2.51 |
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. Twin Falls County, Idaho. 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/idaho/twin-falls-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.