Farmland Atlas · county record

Los Alamos County, New Mexico

Los Alamos County, NM: land and buildings $24,134 an acre in the 2022 census. County averages from public records, not an appraisal of any farm. FIPS 35028. Figures as of 2026-09-20.

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Los Alamos County had no acres published in farms in the 2022 census. County averages here describe very little farmland; read them with care.

Land value here runs $24,134 per acre as of 2022, up 58.1 percent over 2012-2022, or 4.7 percent a year. July nights average 54.9 F for 2017-2026, against a 1991-2020 normal of 53.6 F, and the trend since 1976 runs 0.57 F per decade, warming. Drought has been present: 484 of 1357 weeks from 2000-2025 hit severe drought or worse, 35.7 percent, with 2021 alone logging 52 weeks, and 135 weeks came in the 2021-2025 stretch. Solar operating capacity stands at 1 MW, with no wind and no proposed solar or wind on file.

Cash rent, non-irrigated
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county not in the NASS cash rents survey frame
Land and buildings
$24,134/ac
2022: what operators guessed land and buildings were worth
NM median $784
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
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suppressed by NASS

Cash rent

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

Land value

Land and buildings, 2022$24,134/acoperators' own estimate, not a sale price
Census 2012$15,268/ac
Change 2012 to 2022+58.1%+4.7% 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

20002005201020152020202515224

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, 2000–2025484 of 1,357 weeks36% of weeks
Year with the most D2+ weeks202152 weeks
Last five years, 2021–2025135 weeks
July average of daily lows, 2017–202654.9 °F1991–2020 normal 53.6 °F
Trend in July lows since 1976+0.57 °F a decadewarming
Rain, April to September11.0 in1991–2020 normal; last ten years 86% of it
Days with hail 1 inch or larger0.3 a yearreports, 2010–2025; a zero is no report, not proof of no hail

Land, water and programs

Harvested cropland irrigated, 2022— NASS published no harvested cropland for this county
Tile drainage and tillage— the 2022 census printed no land-use row for this county

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

CRP enrolled, 20250 ac
Solar and wind operating, 20251 MW solar · 0 MW windnameplate, EIA Form 860

Next door

CountyDry rentIrr. rentLand value
Los Alamos County——$24,134
Rio Arriba County$14 2025$44 2024$1,689
Sandoval County——$704
Santa Fe County—$41 2025$1,245
Median next door——$1,245

Counties that share a stretch of boundary. An older rent carries its year and stays out of the median.

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AGSIST Farmland Atlas. Los Alamos County, New Mexico. 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/new-mexico/los-alamos-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.