Farmland Atlas · county record

Sabine County, Texas

Sabine County, TX: non-irrigated cash rent $16 an acre (2022); land and buildings $4,564 an acre in the 2022 census. County averages from public records, not an appraisal of any farm. FIPS 48403. Figures as of 2026-09-20.

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Non-irrigated cropland here rents for $16 per acre against a census land value of $4,564 per acre. All harvested cropland is dryland; 0 percent is irrigated, 2022 census. Drought has touched this county in 149 of 1357 weeks since 2000, with 2011 the worst year at 52 weeks; 37 weeks came in 2021-2025. July nights average 72.6 F for 2017-2026, above the 71.6 F normal for 1991-2020, part of a warming trend of 0.46 F per decade since 1976. No solar or wind capacity operates or is proposed here.

Cash rent, non-irrigated
$16/ac
2022 county average
too few 2022 county surveys in the state to compare
Land and buildings
$4,564/ac
2022: what operators guessed land and buildings were worth
TX median $2,782 · 51st highest of 246
Rent as % of land value
—
not shown: cropland is 16% of land in farms (2022 census), so the census value is mostly pasture, woods and buildings, not cropland
Corn yield, median
—
fewer than 8 published county corn yields
Claims paid per $100 of coverage
—
RMA Summary of Business has no rows for this county
Farmland rented
13%
2022 census, rented from others
TX median 39% · 6th lowest of 251

Cash rent

$0$1020142016201820202022$18$16 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, 2022$16/ac
Pasture, 2026$11/ac

Land value

Land and buildings, 2022$4,564/acoperators' own estimate, not a sale price
Census 2012$2,718/ac
Census 2017$2,256/ac
Change 2017 to 2022+102.3%+15.1% a year, nominal
Dry rent ÷ census value— cropland is 16% 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

Premium and payouts— RMA Summary of Business has no rows for this county

Drought and weather

20002005201020152020202520520

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+ weeks201152 weeks
Last five years, 2021–202537 weeks
July average of daily lows, 2017–202672.6 °F1991–2020 normal 71.6 °F
Trend in July lows since 1976+0.46 °F a decadewarming
Rain, April to September26.1 in1991–2020 normal; last ten years 123% of it
Days with hail 1 inch or larger0.4 a yearreports, 2010–2025; a zero is no report, not proof of no hail

Land, water and programs

Harvested cropland irrigated, 20220%
Drained by tile, 2022none reported
Farmed no-till, 2022under 1% of cropland14 ac
Cover crops, 20221% of cropland43 ac

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

CRP enrolled, 20250 ac
Cattle and calves, 20224,631−59.8% since 2017
Farmland rented from others, 202213%census tenure, owned plus rented acres in farms

Next door

CountyDry rentLand value
Sabine County—$4,564
Sabine Parish, LA$21$3,692
Jasper County$16$4,922
Newton County—$4,395
San Augustine County$16 2023$4,336
Shelby County$18$3,584
Median next door$18$4,336

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. Sabine County, Texas. 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/texas/sabine-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.