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Nantucket County, Massachusetts

Nantucket County, MA: land and buildings $14,302 an acre in the 2022 census. County averages from public records, not an appraisal of any farm. FIPS 25019. Figures as of 2026-09-20.

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Nantucket County had 911 acres in farms in the 2022 census. County averages here describe very little farmland; read them with care.

July average nightly low, 2017-2026 stands at 64.7 F, up from the July average nightly low, 1991-2020 normal of 62.8 F. The July nightly low trend since 1976 is 0.79 F per decade, direction warming, though no July since 1900 has averaged 70 F or above. Severe drought or worse held at least 50 percent of the county for 11 of the weeks in 2021-2025, close to the 11 weeks logged in 2020 alone.

Cash rent, non-irrigated
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county not in the NASS cash rents survey frame
Land and buildings
$14,302/ac
2022: what operators guessed land and buildings were worth
MA median $14,377
Rent as % of land value
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not shown: NASS published no non-irrigated cash rent for this county in 2022
Corn yield, median
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NASS publishes no county corn yield series for this county
Claims paid per $100 of coverage
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RMA Summary of Business has no rows for this county
Farmland rented
13%
2022 census, rented from others
MA median 15%

Cash rent

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

Land value

Land and buildings, 2022$14,302/acoperators' own estimate, not a sale price
Census 2012$26,659/ac
Census 2017$39,124/ac
Change 2017 to 2022−63.4%−18.2% a year, nominal
Dry rent ÷ census value— NASS published no non-irrigated cash rent for this county in 2022

Corn yield

County corn yield— 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

2000200520102015202020250114

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, 2000–202531 of 1,357 weeks2% of weeks
Year with the most D2+ weeks202011 weeks
Last five years, 2021–202511 weeks
July average of daily lows, 2017–202664.7 °F1991–2020 normal 62.8 °F
Trend in July lows since 1976+0.79 °F a decadewarming
Rain, April to September19.9 in1991–2020 normal; last ten years 90% 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, 202280%
Drained by tile, 2022none reported
Farmed no-till, 2022none reported
Cover crops, 202234% of cropland145 ac

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

CRP enrolled, 20250 ac
Solar and wind operating, 20250 MW solar · 0 MW windnameplate, EIA Form 860
Cattle and calves, 2022none reported
Farmland rented from others, 202213%census tenure, owned plus rented acres in farms

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AGSIST Farmland Atlas. Nantucket County, Massachusetts. 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/massachusetts/nantucket-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.

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