Farmland Atlas · county record

Pittsburg County, Oklahoma

Pittsburg County, OK: non-irrigated cash rent $25 an acre (2026); land and buildings $2,168 an acre in the 2022 census. County averages from public records, not an appraisal of any farm. FIPS 40121. Figures as of 2026-09-20.

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Cash rent, non-irrigated
$25/ac
2026 county average
OK median $31 · 21st lowest of 74
Land and buildings
$2,168/ac
2022: what operators guessed land and buildings were worth
OK median $2,515 · 30th lowest of 77
Rent as % of land value
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not shown: cropland is 17% of land in farms (2022 census), so the census value is mostly pasture, woods and buildings, not cropland
Corn yield, median
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fewer than 8 published county corn yields
Claims paid per $100 of coverage
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under the premium floor for a figure
Farmland rented
22%
2022 census, rented from others
OK median 35% · 9th lowest of 77

Cash rent

$0$10$202010201520202025$17$25 dry

Dollars per acre, USDA NASS county survey. A break in a line is a year with no published survey; nothing is drawn across it.

Non-irrigated, 2026$25/ac
Change 2016 to 2026+113.0%nominal, $12 to $25
Pasture, 2026$17/ac

Land value

Land and buildings, 2022$2,168/acoperators' own estimate, not a sale price
Census 2012$1,361/ac
Census 2017$1,752/ac
Change 2017 to 2022+23.7%+4.4% a year, nominal
Dry rent ÷ census value— cropland is 17% of land in farms (2022 census), so the census value is mostly pasture, woods and buildings, not cropland

Corn yield

County corn yield— fewer than 8 published county corn yields

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.

Loss ratio, 1989–20251.76$1.8 million paid
Largest causes of loss, 1989–2013heat and drought 61% · excess moisture 18% · freeze 15%share of dollars paid

Drought and weather

2000200520102015202020256350

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, 2000–2025149 of 1,357 weeks11% of weeks
Year with the most D2+ weeks200635 weeks
Last five years, 2021–202531 weeks
July average of daily lows, 2017–202671.9 °F1991–2020 normal 71.0 °F
Trend in July lows since 1976+0.28 °F a decadeno clear direction
Rain, April to September27.1 in1991–2020 normal; last ten years 109% of it
Days with hail 1 inch or larger2.6 a yearreports, 2010–2025; a zero is no report, not proof of no hail

Land, water and programs

Harvested cropland irrigated, 20224%
Drained by tile, 2022under 1% of cropland314 ac
Farmed no-till, 20227% of cropland5,929 ac
Cover crops, 20221% of cropland973 ac
1986199119962001200620112016202110220

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

CRP enrolled, 20250 ac
Irrigation wells on record12Oklahoma Water Resources Board groundwater wells
Median well depth58 ft
Cattle and calves, 202272,369−15.2% since 2017
Farmland rented from others, 202222%census tenure, owned plus rented acres in farms

Next door

CountyDry rentLand value
Pittsburg County$25$2,168
Atoka County$23$2,051
Coal County$19$2,116
Haskell County$20$2,498
Hughes County$20$2,225
Latimer County$26$2,257
McIntosh County$23$2,601
Pushmataha County$34$2,244
Median next door$23$2,244

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. Pittsburg County, Oklahoma. 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/oklahoma/pittsburg-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.