Search for Maps, Reports, and Data

​​​​​​​​​​Available information includes:

  • Metadata: see county links below
  • Historic data summaries: see county links below

  • Farmland Conversion Reports: New! 2016-2018​ is now available. 2012-2014 and 2014-2016 also available.​

  • Biennial land use conversion tables: see county links below
  • Soil units qualifying for Prime Farmland or Farmland of Statewide Importance: see county links below
  • Farmland of Local Importance definitions: see county links below.​
  • California Important Farmland Finder​ is an online web map of the entire FMMP survey area, allowing users to zoom to the site of interest, analyze the data and determine acreage amounts.​
  • GIS Data as Map and Feature Services​​​.  Information on access is available.​
  • GIS Data as downloadable ESRI Shapefiles​​, zipped by update year, from 1984 to the 2022 update currently in progress. 
  • Note: PDF maps are currently available through the county links below (2018, 2020, ​and 2022​), DOC File Request System ​and CIFF​.  Information on using the CIFF application to obtain Important Farmland data is available.
​​​The county links below provide current FMMP information; older information of some format types may only be available by contacting FMMP via email. 

Note: Base year of mapping for most counties is 1984. Counties which were added at a later date are: Butte (1988), Calaveras (2018), Colusa (1986), Kern (1988), Lake (1996), Mendocino (2006), Sacramento (1988), San Joaquin (1990), Siskiyou (1986), Sutter (1988), Tulare (1986), Tuolumne (2018) and Yuba (1988).​​​

Some files on this site are in Adobe Acrobat (PDF) or compressed (ZIP) format.  Utilities to read both are freely available on the internet.  Spreadsheet information is formatted in Excel 2016 for Windows (XLSX). ​Other files are available through the DOC File Request System​.

Please contact FMMP via email or at 916-324-0850 if you have additional questions.​​
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Copyright and Usage Restrictions:

The following information applies to all of the maps produced by the Farmland Mapping and Monitoring Program:

© Department of Conservation, Farmland Mapping and Monitoring Program, 1984-2025​. 
The Department of Conservation makes no warranties as to the suitability of this product for any particular purpose.
Publication and/or use of this information at scales greater than 1:100,000 is considered to be an enlargement.

If you publish the Important Farmland data in any form, please cite the Program!  Thank you again for your interest. See Map Categories, Criteria, and Data​ page for citation example.

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