Upshur County, West Virginia
Upshur County, WV: non-irrigated cash rent $25 an acre (2019); land and buildings $3,215 an acre in the 2022 census. County averages from public records, not an appraisal of any farm. FIPS 54097. Figures as of 2026-09-20.
Non-irrigated cash rent in 2019 averaged $25 per acre. Census value of land and buildings in 2022 stood at $3,215 per acre, up 21.6 percent from 2017, or 4 percent a year. Drought weeks were rare over 2000-2025, 33 of 1357 weeks, with 2024 the worst year at 20 weeks, and 29 of those weeks fell in 2021-2025. July nightly lows have warmed 0.55 F per decade since 1976, with the 2017-2026 average at 62.6 F against a 1991-2020 normal of 61 F. No solar or wind capacity operates or is proposed here.
too few 2019 county surveys in the state to compare
WV median $3,215 · 24th lowest of 47
WV median 20% · 4th 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.
Land value
Corn yield
Crop insurance record
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Upshur County | — | $3,215 |
| Barbour County | $32 | $2,673 |
| Harrison County | $19 | $3,496 |
| Lewis County | $24 | $2,652 |
| Randolph County | $34 | $2,785 |
| Webster County | — | $1,960 |
| Median next door | $28 | $2,673 |
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. Upshur 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/upshur-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.