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Loudoun County, Virginia

Loudoun County, VA: non-irrigated cash rent $37 an acre (2026); land and buildings $12,276 an acre in the 2022 census; median corn yield 125.0 bu/ac. County averages from public records, not an appraisal of any farm. FIPS 51107. Figures as of 2026-09-20.

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Non-irrigated cash rent here runs $37 per acre, down 16.9 percent from 2016 to 2026. Heat and drought drove 59 percent of crop insurance indemnities from 1989-2025, and that share moved unevenly across the decades: 82 percent in 1989-1999, 52 percent in 2000-2009, 41 percent in 2010-2019, then 76 percent in 2020-2025. July nightly lows have warmed 0.81 F per decade since 1976, and the 1991-2020 normal of 65.4 F sits below the 2017-2026 average of 67.4 F. Irrigation covers only 1 percent of harvested cropland, so this heat exposure runs mostly on rainfall.

Cash rent, non-irrigated
$37/ac
2026 county average
VA median $47 · tied for 22nd lowest of 84
Land and buildings
$12,276/ac
2022: what operators guessed land and buildings were worth
VA median $4,596 · 3rd highest of 86
Rent as % of land value
—
not shown: cropland is 48% of land in farms (2022 census), so the census value is mostly pasture, woods and buildings, not cropland
Corn yield, 2008–2025 median
125.0 bu/ac
9 published years
Claims paid per $100 of coverage
$14.81
2016–2025, closed crop years
VA median $8.45 · 21st highest of 67
Farmland rented
40%
2022 census, rented from others
VA median 33% · 26th highest of 90

Cash rent

$0$10$20$30$40$502010201520202025$27$37 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$37/ac
Change 2016 to 2026−16.9%nominal, $45 to $37
Pasture, 2026$29/ac

Land value

Land and buildings, 2022$12,276/acoperators' own estimate, not a sale price
Census 2012$11,977/ac
Census 2017$9,816/ac
Change 2017 to 2022+25.1%+4.6% a year, nominal
Dry rent ÷ census value— cropland is 48% of land in farms (2022 census), so the census value is mostly pasture, woods and buildings, not cropland

Corn yield

200820102012201420162018202020222024125.0114.090.893.9152.1138.2152.9125.0167.5median 125.0

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

Median, 2008–2025125.0 bu/ac9 published years
Lowest published year2010: 90.8 bu/ac73% of median

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.

Claims paid per $100 of coverage, 2016–2025$14.81
Loss ratio, 2016–20251.11claims ÷ total premium
Loss ratio, 1989–20251.04$8.3 million paid
Largest causes of loss, 1989–2025heat and drought 59% · other 19% · excess moisture 16%share of dollars paid

Drought and weather

20002005201020152020202501912

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, 2000–202564 of 1,357 weeks5% of weeks
Year with the most D2+ weeks200219 weeks
Last five years, 2021–202537 weeks
July average of daily lows, 2017–202667.4 °F1991–2020 normal 65.4 °F
Trend in July lows since 1976+0.81 °F a decadewarming
Rain, April to September23.6 in1991–2020 normal; last ten years 105% of it
Days with hail 1 inch or larger1.8 a yearreports, 2010–2025; a zero is no report, not proof of no hail

Land, water and programs

Harvested cropland irrigated, 20221%
Drained by tile, 20222% of cropland942 ac
Farmed no-till, 202222% of cropland11,777 ac
Cover crops, 20229% of cropland4,879 ac
1986199119962001200620112016202106970

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

CRP enrolled, 20250 ac
CRP expiring FY2026–20280 ac
Cattle and calves, 202212,993−21.2% since 2017
Farmland rented from others, 202240%census tenure, owned plus rented acres in farms

Next door

CountyDry rentLand valueCorn yieldClaims per $100
Loudoun County$37$12,276—$14.81
Frederick County, MD$123$11,000146.9$10.37
Montgomery County, MD$111$10,739—$3.94
Washington County, MD$128$8,668145.1$9.61
Clarke County$35$9,610—$14.02
Fairfax County—$17,494——
Fauquier County$65$7,962152.2$5.21
Prince William County$49$12,336——
Jefferson County, WV$55$7,118—$7.76
Median next door$65$10,175146.9$8.69

Counties that share a stretch of boundary. An older rent carries its year and stays out of the median.

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AGSIST Farmland Atlas. Loudoun 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/loudoun-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.