2022 Census of Agriculture: U.S. tree farms cut more than 14.5 million Christmas trees in 2022

Christmas trees are grown commercially on farms in all 50 States on about 16,000 U.S. tree farms. Data from the Census of Agriculture show that in 2022, the United States cut more than 14.5 million Christmas trees. Although Christmas tree farms span the country, more than half the trees cut in 2022 were grown in two States, Oregon and North Carolina, where growing conditions favor production of the most popular species of Christmas trees, including Noble, Douglas, and Fraser firs. Michigan and Washington are also notable Christmas tree-growing States, as are Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, and Virginia. With prolonged drought affecting many of these production regions, about 550,000 fewer trees were cut in 2022 than during the previous agricultural census in 2017. With higher value of sales in 2022, however, U.S. Christmas tree growers sold $553 million in cut Christmas trees compared with $377 million in 2017. The United States also imported more than 3 million Christmas trees in 2022. This chart was drawn from the USDA, National Agricultural Statistics Service’s 2022 Census of Agriculture. For more on holiday plant imports, see this USDA, Economic Research Service Chart of Note.