Vilas County, Wisconsin
Sales through Sep 30, 2026
Newest sales town, not parcel
- Sep 4, 2026 40 ac at $6,225/ac ($249,000), Land O'Lakes town
- Aug 20, 2026 (deed date) 292.1 ac at $6,163/ac ($1,800,000), Presque Isle town with buildings
- Aug 14, 2026 (deed date) 79.1 ac at $10,746/ac ($850,000), Winchester town with buildings
Recorded prices. Not an appraisal. No adjustments. A recorded price is what the state's transfer record says was paid once the sale closed, auction or private; never an asking price.
Sales: Wisconsin Department of Revenue, electronic real estate transfer returns, farm and forest classes. Rent: USDA NASS.
Vilas County, WI: crop insurance loss ratio 0.79 since 1989. Bids, weather, crops, land and programs for one county. County averages from public records, not an appraisal of any farm. FIPS 55125. Figures as of Oct 19, 2026; the rows marked with a date load the newest reading when the page opens.
Vilas County had no acres published in farms in the 2022 census. County averages here describe very little farmland; read them with care.
WI median $5,565
WI median $5.09
Freeze and frost claims dominate this county's crop insurance history, accounting for 66 percent of all indemnities paid from 1989 through 2023. The recent decade was rougher than the long average: the loss ratio from 2016 through 2025 was 1.45, compared to 0.79 for the full 1989-2025 period. Heat and drought claims peaked in 2000-2009 at 44 percent of indemnities, then fell to 30 percent in 2010-2019 and to 0 percent in 2020-2025. Groundwater supplies 9 percent of irrigation water here.
Grain and prices within 50 miles
Bids are posted elevator prices within 50 miles of the county middle, or of your own field or saved place in this county when this device has one (each row says which), best and nearest, never a buyer's name. Not a contract; call before you haul. Livestock lines show where the 2022 Census counts 1,000 head or more: milk for milk cows, feeder cattle for beef cows, live cattle for cattle on feed, hogs for hogs, hay for all cattle.
Wisconsin cash bids by town · Bids from your own ZIP or farm, in Fast Facts
Weather and the season
Rain so far this year in Vilas County, Wisconsin
Drought, year by year
Weeks per year, U.S. Drought Monitor, with half the county or more in D2 (severe) drought or worse.
Crops
Corn yield
Land rent, value, sales
Cash rent
Every published Wisconsin county rate, side by side: Wisconsin cash rent by county.
Land value
NASS withheld this county's 2022 census value; the census figures shown are this county's own. The survey figures are the Wisconsin average for 2026, from the USDA NASS Land Values report. NASS publishes that survey by state, not by county, so this page does not scale one into the other.
Recorded farm sales
Sale counts and the median price buyers paid per acre in Vilas County, from Wisconsin DOR Real Estate Transfer Returns (RETR) (Wisconsin Department of Revenue), load here.
Land sales: Recorded sales in Vilas County, sale by sale.
Programs and risk
Benchmarks, payments and the choice for each crop: ARC or PLC in Vilas County.
PRF rainfall insurance for pasture and hay in Vilas County: its grids, county values and record are on the county PRF page.
Crop insurance record
Claims paid divided by total premium (the farmer share plus the federal subsidy), each closed crop year since 1989 with at least $1,000,000 of premium; a year under that has no bar and no ratio. Above the dashed line, the county's insurance book paid out more than it took in. 2026, still open, is left out.
Conservation Reserve Program
Acres enrolled in the Conservation Reserve Program, USDA FSA, by fiscal year.
What farms here look like
USDA Census of Agriculture 2022, except wells (state well register) and power (EIA Form 860).
Next door
| County | Dry rent | Land value | Claims per $100 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Vilas County | n/a | n/a | $3.65 |
| Gogebic County, MI | n/a | $3,602 | n/a |
| Iron County, MI | n/a | $4,200 | n/a |
| Forest County | $40 | $4,747 | n/a |
| Iron County | n/a | $4,086 | n/a |
| Oneida County | $42 2024 | $5,553 | $6.15 |
| Price County | $37 | $3,063 | $6.34 |
| Median next door | $39 2 co. | $4,143 | $6.25 2 co. |
Counties that share a stretch of boundary. A rent from an older survey year carries its year and stays out of the median; one more than three survey years old shows n/a.
Not on this page yet
- This year's growing degree days and first fall freeze for the county. The normals above are here; the current year is not yet.
- County crop condition and harvest pace. USDA publishes them by state, not by county, so the state line stands in.
- Number of farms and farm size, from the 2022 Census of Agriculture county tables.
- Soils, slope, wetlands and flood zones for one field. Those load at the field in Field Scout, not on a county page.
Cite this page
AGSIST Farmland Atlas. Vilas County, Wisconsin. Figures as of Oct 19, 2026, from USDA NASS, USDA RMA, USDA FSA, the U.S. Drought Monitor and NOAA. https://agsist.com/farmland-atlas/wisconsin/vilas-countyEvery figure is a county average from the sources named below. Rent ranks count every county with a published rent in the same survey year, within the state (the same counties as the state rent page); other ranks count counties with 10,000 acres or more in farms. 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.
This product uses the NASS API but is not endorsed or certified by NASS. Averages, trends, ranks and estimates are calculations by AGSIST.
Rent: USDA NASS Cash Rents Survey, county. Land value: Census of Agriculture, operators' estimate of land and buildings. Yield: NASS county corn yields. The headline trend, the one rent per bushel uses, is fitted here over the published years in the 15 years ending this year; the yearly trend card uses 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. Claims paid per $100 of coverage: claims divided by liability (the insured value), times 100, same source. 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 missing figure is named with its reason (in a table it reads n/a).