Farmland Atlas · county record

Tucker County, West Virginia

Tucker County, WV: non-irrigated cash rent $35 an acre (2026); land and buildings $3,965 an acre in the 2022 census. County averages from public records, not an appraisal of any farm. FIPS 54093. Figures as of 2026-09-20.

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Non-irrigated cash rent in Tucker County is $35 per acre. Census value of land and buildings in 2022 was $3,965 per acre, up 38.5 percent from 2017, 6.7 percent a year. July nights average 59.1 F for 2017-2026, against a 1991-2020 normal of 57.3 F, and the July nightly low trend since 1976 runs 0.53 F per decade, warming. Drought has touched the county in 39 of 1357 weeks from 2000-2025, with 2024 the worst year at 21 weeks, and 30 weeks fell in that category from 2021-2025. Wind capacity operating is 66 MW; solar operating is 0 MW, with 11.5 MW solar proposed to EIA.

Cash rent, non-irrigated

$35/ac

2026 county average
WV median $30 · 12th highest of 30

Land and buildings

$3,965/ac

2022: what operators guessed land and buildings were worth
WV median $3,215 · 13th highest of 47

Rent as % of land value

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not shown: cropland is 23% 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

—

RMA Summary of Business has no rows for this county

Farmland rented

24%

2022 census, rented from others
WV median 20% · 13th highest of 48

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.

Non-irrigated, 2026$35/ac

Pasture, 2024$14/ac

Land value

Land and buildings, 2022$3,965/acoperators' own estimate, not a sale price

Census 2012$3,059/ac

Census 2017$2,863/ac

Change 2017 to 2022+38.5%+6.7% a year, nominal

Dry rent ÷ census value— cropland is 23% 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

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, 2000–202539 of 1,357 weeks3% of weeks

Year with the most D2+ weeks202421 weeks

Last five years, 2021–202530 weeks

July average of daily lows, 2017–202659.1 °F1991–2020 normal 57.3 °F

Trend in July lows since 1976+0.53 °F a decadewarming

Rain, April to September29.9 in1991–2020 normal; last ten years 106% of it

Days with hail 1 inch or larger0.2 a yearreports, 2010–2025; a zero is no report, not proof of no hail

Land, water and programs

Harvested cropland irrigated, 2022— NASS suppressed the irrigated acres to protect individual farms

Farmed no-till, 20225% of cropland254 ac

Cover crops, 20221% of cropland69 ac

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

CRP enrolled, 202586 ac

CRP expiring FY2026–20280 ac

Solar and wind operating, 20250 MW solar · 66 MW windnameplate, EIA Form 860

Cattle and calves, 20221,785−29.3% since 2017

Farmland rented from others, 202224%census tenure, owned plus rented acres in farms

Next door

County	Dry rent	Land value	Claims per $100
Tucker County	$35	$3,965	—
Barbour County	$32	$2,673	—
Grant County	$27	$3,008	—
Preston County	$27	$3,218	$14.36
Randolph County	$34	$2,785	—
Median next door	$29	$2,897	$14.36 1 co.

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. Tucker County, West 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/west-virginia/tucker-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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