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Frederick County, Virginia

Frederick County, VA: non-irrigated cash rent $34 an acre (2026); land and buildings $7,861 an acre in the 2022 census; median corn yield 136.3 bu/ac. County averages from public records, not an appraisal of any farm. FIPS 51069. Figures as of 2026-09-20.

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Land and buildings carry a market value of $7,861 per acre, with that value up 8.8 percent from 2017 to 2022. No cropland here draws on irrigation; the 2022 census puts the irrigated share at 0 percent. Drought has stayed limited: 42 of 1357 weeks since 2000 hit severe drought or worse, and 2021-2025 held 16 such weeks.

Cash rent, non-irrigated
$34/ac
2026 county average
VA median $47 · 19th lowest of 84
Land and buildings
$7,861/ac
2022: what operators guessed land and buildings were worth
VA median $4,596 · 13th highest of 86
Dry rent per bushel of corn
$0.25
$34 ÷ 134.9 bu, recent yield 2021–2025
Corn yield, 2008–2025 median
136.3 bu/ac
recent level 2021–2025: 134.9
VA median 145.9 · 7th lowest of 25
Claims paid per $100 of coverage
$47.13
2016–2025, closed crop years
VA median $8.45 · 2nd highest of 67
Farmland rented
34%
2022 census, rented from others
VA median 33% · 43rd highest of 90

Cash rent

$0$10$20$30$402010201520202025$33$34 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, 2026$34/ac
Change 2016 to 2026+8.1%nominal, $31 to $34
Pasture, 2026$24/ac
Dry rent per bushel of corn$0.25$34 ÷ 134.9 bu, county yield 2021–2025

Land value

Land and buildings, 2022$7,861/acoperators' own estimate, not a sale price
Census 2012$5,903/ac
Census 2017$7,223/ac
Change 2017 to 2022+8.8%+1.7% a year, nominal
Dry rent ÷ census value— cropland is 33% of land in farms (2022 census), so the census value is mostly pasture, woods and buildings, not cropland

Corn yield

200820102012201420162018202020222024123.0179.4143.9median 136.3

Bushels per acre, USDA NASS county yields, all practices. The dashed line is the median of the published years.

Median, 2008–2025136.3 bu/ac16 published years
Recent level, 2021–2025134.9 bu/ac5 published years, high and low dropped
Lowest published year2010: 40.0 bu/ac29% of median
Trend, 2008–2025+2.2 bu/ac a year±3.8 (95% interval)

Crop insurance record

20142019202420251.791.071.631.841.861.721.731.351.211.741.741.651.00: claims equal premium

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.

Claims paid per $100 of coverage, 2016–2025$47.13
Loss ratio, 2016–20251.63claims ÷ total premium
Loss ratio, 1989–20251.52$48.4 million paid
Years claims exceeded premium12 of 12
Worst year2018ratio 1.86
Largest causes of loss, 1989–2025freeze 42% · heat and drought 28% · hail 18%share of dollars paid

Drought and weather

2000200520102015202020250149

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, 2000–202542 of 1,357 weeks3% of weeks
Year with the most D2+ weeks201014 weeks
Last five years, 2021–202516 weeks
July average of daily lows, 2017–202663.8 °F1991–2020 normal 62.6 °F
Trend in July lows since 1976+0.59 °F a decadewarming
Rain, April to September23.6 in1991–2020 normal; last ten years 111% of it
Days with hail 1 inch or larger1.3 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, 2022under 1% of cropland46 ac
Farmed no-till, 202214% of cropland4,195 ac
Cover crops, 20221% of cropland386 ac
19861991199620012006201120162021014588

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

CRP enrolled, 202588 ac
CRP expiring FY2026–20288 ac
Solar and wind operating, 2025206.4 MW solar · 0 MW windnameplate, EIA Form 860
Cattle and calves, 202210,720−36.5% since 2017
Farmland rented from others, 202234%census tenure, owned plus rented acres in farms

Next door

CountyDry rentLand valueCorn yieldClaims per $100
Frederick County$34$7,861136.3$47.13
Clarke County$35$9,610—$14.02
Shenandoah County$69$7,334146.2$29.88
Warren County$36$8,337——
Winchester City————
Berkeley County, WV$46$7,055—$22.07
Hampshire County, WV$43$3,713—$55.58
Hardy County, WV$45$4,212—$10.27
Jefferson County, WV$55$7,118—$7.76
Morgan County, WV$21$5,715——
Median next door$44$7,087146.2 1 co.$18.05

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. Frederick 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/frederick-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.
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"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.