Farmland Atlas · county record

San Juan County, Washington

San Juan County, WA: non-irrigated cash rent $40 an acre (2024); land and buildings $12,320 an acre in the 2022 census. County averages from public records, not an appraisal of any farm. FIPS 53055. Figures as of 2026-09-20.

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Cash rent, non-irrigated
$40/ac
2024 county average
too few 2024 county surveys in the state to compare
Land and buildings
$12,320/ac
2022: what operators guessed land and buildings were worth
WA median $5,067 · 10th highest of 34
Rent as % of land value
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not shown: cropland is 41% of land in farms (2022 census), so the census value is mostly pasture, woods and buildings, not cropland
Corn yield, median
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fewer than 8 published county corn yields
Claims paid per $100 of coverage
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RMA Summary of Business has no rows for this county
Farmland rented
39%
2022 census, rented from others
WA median 34% · 15th highest of 34

Cash rent

$0$10$20$30$402021202220232024$23$40 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, 2024$40/ac
Pasture, 2026$36/ac

Land value

Land and buildings, 2022$12,320/acoperators' own estimate, not a sale price
Census 2012$13,228/ac
Census 2017$9,457/ac
Change 2017 to 2022+30.3%+5.4% a year, nominal
Dry rent ÷ census value— cropland is 41% of land in farms (2022 census), so the census value is mostly pasture, woods and buildings, not cropland

Corn yield

County corn yield— fewer than 8 published county corn yields

Crop insurance record

Premium and payouts— RMA Summary of Business has no rows for this county

Drought and weather

2000200520102015202020250190

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, 2000–202552 of 1,357 weeks4% of weeks
Year with the most D2+ weeks201519 weeks
Last five years, 2021–202527 weeks
July average of daily lows, 2017–202652.7 °F1991–2020 normal 52.3 °F
Trend in July lows since 1976+0.43 °F a decadewarming
Rain, April to September8.1 in1991–2020 normal; last ten years 88% of it
Days with hail 1 inch or larger0.0 a yearreports, 2010–2025; a zero is no report, not proof of no hail

Land, water and programs

Harvested cropland irrigated, 20226%
Drained by tile, 20222% of cropland117 ac
Farmed no-till, 20226% of cropland461 ac
Cover crops, 20222% of cropland186 ac

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

CRP enrolled, 20250 ac
Cattle and calves, 20222,841+66.5% since 2017
Farmland rented from others, 202239%census tenure, owned plus rented acres in farms

Cite this page

AGSIST Farmland Atlas. San Juan County, Washington. 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/washington/san-juan-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.

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