Farmland Atlas · county record

San Augustine County, Texas

San Augustine County, TX: non-irrigated cash rent $16 an acre (2023); land and buildings $4,336 an acre in the 2022 census. County averages from public records, not an appraisal of any farm. FIPS 48405. Figures as of 2026-09-20.

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Non-irrigated cash rent in San Augustine County averaged $16 per acre in 2023, up 24 percent from 2013. Land value rose 53.8 percent from 2017 to 2022, or 9 percent a year. July nights average 72.7 F for 2017-2026 against a 1991-2020 normal of 71.9 F, and the county logged 35 weeks of severe drought or worse from 2021-2025, against 127 weeks total from 2000-2025. No solar or wind capacity operates or is proposed here.

Cash rent, non-irrigated

$16/ac

2023 county average
too few 2023 county surveys in the state to compare

Land and buildings

$4,336/ac

2022: what operators guessed land and buildings were worth
TX median $2,782 · 63rd highest of 246

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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RMA Summary of Business has no rows for this county

Farmland rented

22%

2022 census, rented from others
TX median 39% · 30th lowest of 251

Cash rent

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, 2023$16/ac

Change 2013 to 2023+24.0%nominal, $13 to $16

Pasture, 2026$13/ac

Land value

Land and buildings, 2022$4,336/acoperators' own estimate, not a sale price

Census 2012$2,310/ac

Census 2017$2,820/ac

Change 2017 to 2022+53.8%+9.0% 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

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

Drought and weather

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, 2000–2025127 of 1,357 weeks9% of weeks

Year with the most D2+ weeks201152 weeks

Last five years, 2021–202535 weeks

July average of daily lows, 2017–202672.7 °F1991–2020 normal 71.9 °F

Trend in July lows since 1976+0.44 °F a decadewarming

Rain, April to September25.2 in1991–2020 normal; last ten years 121% of it

Days with hail 1 inch or larger0.6 a yearreports, 2010–2025; a zero is no report, not proof of no hail

Land, water and programs

Harvested cropland irrigated, 2022— NASS suppressed the irrigated acres to protect individual farms

Drained by tile, 2022none reported

Farmed no-till, 20227% of cropland433 ac

Cover crops, 20228% of cropland522 ac

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

CRP enrolled, 20250 ac

Cattle and calves, 20226,827−30.7% since 2017

Farmland rented from others, 202222%census tenure, owned plus rented acres in farms

Next door

County	Dry rent	Land value
San Augustine County	$16 2023	$4,336
Angelina County	$11 2024	$4,498
Jasper County	$16	$4,922
Nacogdoches County	$18	$4,382
Sabine County	—	$4,564
Shelby County	$18	$3,584
Median next door	$18	$4,498

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. San Augustine 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/san-augustine-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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