Chesterfield County, Virginia
Chesterfield County, VA: non-irrigated cash rent $42 an acre (2026); land and buildings $8,136 an acre in the 2022 census, flagged to read with care. County averages from public records, not an appraisal of any farm. FIPS 51041. Figures as of 2026-09-20.
Non-irrigated cash rent for 2026 averages $42 per acre. Only 2 percent of harvested cropland is irrigated, so most fields depend on rain. Heat and drought caused 62 percent of crop insurance indemnities from 1990-2025, and the loss ratio over the ten closed crop years 2016-2025 was 1.06, up from 0.94 across 1989-2025. July nights have warmed, averaging 69.2 F over 2017-2026 against a 68.2 F normal for 1991-2020, at a trend of 0.47 F per decade. Drought weeks have been absent recently: zero weeks in severe drought or worse from 2021-2025, against 61 of 1357 weeks since 2000.
VA median $47 · 32nd lowest of 84
VA median $8.45 · 15th highest of 67
VA median 33% · 9th lowest of 90
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
Bushels per acre, USDA NASS county yields, all practices. The dashed line is the median of the published years.
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.
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 | Corn yield | Claims per $100 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chesterfield County | $42 | $8,136 | — | $20.55 |
| Amelia County | $44 | $4,304 | 126.7 | $9.26 |
| Charles City County | $77 | $4,221 | 137.7 | $4.62 |
| Colonial Heights City | — | — | — | — |
| Dinwiddie County | $72 | $3,339 | — | $4.91 |
| Henrico County | $44 | $7,750 | — | $8.35 |
| Hopewell City | — | — | — | — |
| Petersburg City | — | — | — | — |
| Powhatan County | $30 2023 | $6,616 | — | $11.23 |
| Prince George County | $64 | $4,187 | — | $4.95 |
| Richmond City | — | — | — | — |
| Median next door | $64 | $4,263 | 132.2 2 co. | $6.65 |
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. Chesterfield County, Virginia. 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/virginia/chesterfield-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.