Farmland Atlas · county record

Tulsa County, Oklahoma

Tulsa County, OK: non-irrigated cash rent $28 an acre (2026); land and buildings $7,122 an acre in the 2022 census; crop insurance loss ratio 1.00 since 1989. County averages from public records, not an appraisal of any farm. FIPS 40143. Figures as of 2026-09-20.

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Non-irrigated cash rent in Tulsa County runs $28 per acre in 2026, up 12.2 percent from 2016. Irrigated cash rent stands at $169 per acre, though irrigation covers only 10 percent of harvested cropland, and 87 percent of that water comes from groundwater. Heat and drought stands as the largest cause of crop insurance indemnities since 1989, at 46 percent of $4.8 million paid out, and its share has moved higher across the recent decades: 38 percent in 1989-1999, 30 percent in 2000-2009, 48 percent in 2010-2019, 65 percent in 2020-2025. Land value, by the operators' own estimate, reached $7,122 per acre in 2022, up 22.2 percent from 2017.

Cash rent, non-irrigated
$28/ac
2026 county average
OK median $31 · 28th lowest of 74
Cash rent, irrigated
$169/ac
2026 county average
OK median $105 · highest of 11
Land and buildings
$7,122/ac
2022: what operators guessed land and buildings were worth
OK median $2,515 · 2nd highest of 77
Corn yield, median
—
fewer than 8 published county corn yields
Claims paid per $100 of coverage
$20.03
2016–2025, closed crop years
OK median $19.63 · 27th highest of 55
Farmland rented
36%
2022 census, rented from others
OK median 35% · 38th highest of 77

Cash rent

$0$10$20$30$402010201520202025$35$28 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$28/ac
Change 2016 to 2026+12.2%nominal, $25 to $28
Irrigated, 2026$169/ac
Pasture, 2026$17/ac

Land value

Land and buildings, 2022$7,122/acoperators' own estimate, not a sale price
Census 2012$3,635/ac
Census 2017$5,829/ac
Change 2017 to 2022+22.2%+4.1% a year, nominal
Dry rent ÷ census value— about 10% of cropland is irrigated (2022 census), so dry rent over the all-land census value is not a yield on anything

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.

Claims paid per $100 of coverage, 2016–2025$20.03
Loss ratio, 2016–20250.83claims ÷ total premium
Loss ratio, 1989–20251.00$4.8 million paid
Largest causes of loss, 1989–2025heat and drought 46% · excess moisture 35% · freeze 14%share of dollars paid

Drought and weather

2000200520102015202020253340

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, 2000–2025153 of 1,357 weeks11% of weeks
Year with the most D2+ weeks202234 weeks
Last five years, 2021–202545 weeks
July average of daily lows, 2017–202671.5 °F1991–2020 normal 71.2 °F
Trend in July lows since 1976+0.14 °F a decadeno clear direction
Rain, April to September26.2 in1991–2020 normal; last ten years 102% of it
Days with hail 1 inch or larger4.6 a yearreports, 2010–2025; a zero is no report, not proof of no hail

Land, water and programs

Harvested cropland irrigated, 202210%
Drained by tile, 20221% of cropland231 ac
Farmed no-till, 202213% of cropland4,465 ac
Cover crops, 20221% of cropland403 ac
1986199119962001200620112016202105060

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

CRP enrolled, 20250 ac
Irrigation wells on record347Oklahoma Water Resources Board groundwater wells
Median well depth33 ft
Cattle and calves, 202212,176+9.9% since 2017
Farmland rented from others, 202236%census tenure, owned plus rented acres in farms

Next door

CountyDry rentIrr. rentLand valueClaims per $100
Tulsa County$28$169$7,122$20.03
Creek County$19—$2,971—
Okmulgee County$19—$3,106$8.17
Osage County$22 2025—$1,883$19.63
Pawnee County$26—$2,155$27.95
Rogers County$22—$3,964$17.42
Wagoner County$27—$3,764$11.41
Washington County$35—$2,791$20.15
Median next door$24—$2,971$18.53

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. Tulsa 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/tulsa-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.