Piute County, Utah
Piute County, UT: non-irrigated cash rent $32 an acre (2025); land and buildings $4,020 an acre in the 2022 census. County averages from public records, not an appraisal of any farm. FIPS 49031. Figures as of 2026-09-20.
Irrigated cash rent in Piute County stands at $90 per acre in 2026, and non-irrigated rent is $32 per acre in 2025, up 128.6 percent since 2013. Irrigation covers 95 percent of harvested cropland, with only 4 percent of that water drawn from groundwater as of 2015. Drought has been present here: 392 of 1357 weeks from 2000-2025 saw severe drought or worse, and 2021-2025 alone logged 132 such weeks, with 2021 itself hitting 52 weeks. The July average nightly low has moved from 51.2 F (1991-2020 normal) to 52.6 F (2017-2026), part of a warming trend of 0.56 F per decade since 1976. Census land value reached $4,020 per acre in 2022, up 93.2 percent from 2017, or 14.1 percent a year.
too few 2025 county surveys in the state to compare
UT median $107 · 5th lowest of 24
UT median $3,900 · 14th highest of 28
UT median 22% · 7th lowest of 29
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.
Land value
Corn yield
Crop insurance record
Drought and weather
Weeks per year, U.S. Drought Monitor, with half the county or more in D2 (severe) drought or worse.
Land, water and programs
Acres enrolled in the Conservation Reserve Program, USDA FSA, by fiscal year.
Next door
| County | Dry rent | Irr. rent | Land value |
|---|---|---|---|
| Piute County | $32 2025 | $90 | $4,020 |
| Beaver County | — | $97 2024 | $3,779 |
| Garfield County | — | $96 | $4,398 |
| Sevier County | $12 | $97 | $5,351 |
| Wayne County | $44 2025 | $117 | $10,311 |
| Median next door | $12 1 co. | $97 | $4,875 |
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. Piute County, Utah. 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/utah/piute-countyEvery 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.