Grand Isle County, Vermont
Grand Isle County, VT: non-irrigated cash rent $62 an acre (2026); land and buildings $7,445 an acre in the 2022 census. County averages from public records, not an appraisal of any farm. FIPS 50013. Figures as of 2026-09-20.
Non-irrigated cash rent in Grand Isle County is $62 per acre in 2026. Census land value in 2022 stood at $7,445 per acre, with land value change of 73 percent, 11.6 percent a year, over 2017-2022. Crop insurance indemnities for closed crop years 1995-2025 total $3.0 million, with excess moisture and flood the largest cause at 67 percent, and the loss ratio over that span is 1.22, easing to 1.05 over 2016-2025. Heat and drought's share of indemnities moved from 5 percent in 2000-2009 to 18 percent in 2010-2019 to 28 percent in 2020-2025. July nightly lows averaged 60.9 F in the 1991-2020 normal and 62.1 F in 2017-2026, and the county recorded 2 of 1357 weeks in severe drought or worse from 2000-2025.
VT median $59 · 4th highest of 10
VT median $3,906 · highest of 13
VT median $10.76 · 4th lowest of 8
VT median 18% · 6th highest of 14
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
Claims paid divided by total premium (the farmer share plus the federal subsidy), each closed crop year since 1995. Above the dashed line, the county's insurance book paid out more than it took in. 2026, still open, is left out.
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 | Land value | Claims per $100 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Grand Isle County | $62 | $7,445 | $10.63 |
| Clinton County, NY | $63 | $3,464 | $11.86 |
| Chittenden County | $47 | $6,230 | $12.04 |
| Franklin County | $90 | $3,906 | $10.19 |
| Median next door | $63 | $3,906 | $11.86 |
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. Grand Isle County, Vermont. 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/vermont/grand-isle-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.