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Sublette County, Wyoming

Sublette County, WY: non-irrigated cash rent $21 an acre (2023); land and buildings $2,038 an acre in the 2022 census. County averages from public records, not an appraisal of any farm. FIPS 56035. Figures as of 2026-09-20.

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Irrigated cash rent in Sublette County was $30 per acre in 2025, and non-irrigated cash rent was $21 per acre in 2023, up 40 percent from 2013. Share of harvested cropland irrigated was 97 percent in 2022, with 11 percent of irrigation water from groundwater in 2015. Land value stood at $2,038 per acre in 2022, up 23.4 percent from 2017, or 4.3 percent a year. Drought was present here: 440 of 1357 weeks from 2000-2025 saw severe drought or worse, with 2002 the worst year at 53 weeks, and 110 such weeks fell in 2021-2025.

Cash rent, non-irrigated
$21/ac
2023 county average
too few 2023 county surveys in the state to compare
Cash rent, irrigated
$30/ac
2025 county average
too few 2025 county surveys in the state to compare
Land and buildings
$2,038/ac
2022: what operators guessed land and buildings were worth
WY median $1,248 · 4th highest of 22
Corn yield, median
—
fewer than 8 published county corn yields
Claims paid per $100 of coverage
—
under the premium floor for a figure
Farmland rented
20%
2022 census, rented from others
WY median 33% · 4th lowest of 23

Cash rent

$0$20$40$60$80201520202025$11$21 dry$63$30 irrigated

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, 2023$21/ac
Change 2013 to 2023+40.0%nominal, $15 to $21
Irrigated, 2025$30/ac
Pasture, 2025$9/ac

Land value

Land and buildings, 2022$2,038/acoperators' own estimate, not a sale price
Census 2012$1,345/ac
Census 2017$1,651/ac
Change 2017 to 2022+23.4%+4.3% a year, nominal
Dry rent ÷ census value— about 97% of cropland is irrigated (2022 census), so dry rent over the all-land census value is not a yield on anything

Corn yield

County corn yield— fewer than 8 published county corn yields

Crop insurance record

Claims paid divided by total premium (the farmer share plus the federal subsidy), each closed crop year since 2020. Above the dashed line, the county's insurance book paid out more than it took in. 2026, still open, is left out.

Drought and weather

20002005201020152020202505310

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, 2000–2025440 of 1,357 weeks32% of weeks
Year with the most D2+ weeks200253 weeks
Last five years, 2021–2025110 weeks
July average of daily lows, 2017–202643.3 °F1991–2020 normal 42.2 °F
Trend in July lows since 1976+0.34 °F a decadeno clear direction
Rain, April to September8.7 in1991–2020 normal; last ten years 96% of it
Days with hail 1 inch or larger0.3 a yearreports, 2010–2025; a zero is no report, not proof of no hail

Land, water and programs

Harvested cropland irrigated, 202297%
Farmed no-till, 2022under 1% of cropland138 ac
Cover crops, 2022under 1% of cropland377 ac
19861991199620012006201120162021018,300

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

CRP enrolled, 202518,300 ac17.5% of harvested cropland + CRP
CRP average rental payment, FY2025$17/acall contracts in force, old ones included; not today's offer
Cattle and calves, 202253,423−7.1% since 2017
Farmland rented from others, 202220%census tenure, owned plus rented acres in farms

Next door

CountyDry rentIrr. rentLand valueClaims per $100
Sublette County$21 2023$30 2025$2,038—
Fremont County$15 2025$78$1,882$1.81
Lincoln County$30$53$3,963—
Sweetwater County$33$44$387—
Teton County$40$45$11,792—
Median next door$33$49$2,923$1.81 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. Sublette County, Wyoming. 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/wyoming/sublette-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.