Crop-loss band · Delaware
Kent County, Delaware — crop-loss band
- 0.95Low end of the filed band
- 1.87Middle of the filed band
- 2.60High end of the filed band
- 2021Worst year filed (3.06)
- 10Years filed
Every year the Risk Management Agency has filed for Kent County is in the series below, from 2015 to 2024. Read across those years the county’s annual loss ratio — indemnity divided by premium — runs from 0.95 at the low end to 2.60 at the high end, with 1.87 in the middle. The worst year filed is 2021, at 3.06. The band points are years the county actually ran, never a figure interpolated between two of them.
The county’s year-by-year record
| Year | Premium | Indemnity | Liability | Policies | Policies with a loss | Loss ratio |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | $341,608 | $789,326 | $3,056,462 | 193 | 193 | 2.31 |
| 2016 | $836,329 | $1,490,581 | $7,585,610 | 379 | 378 | 1.78 |
| 2017 | $371,923 | $353,336 | $3,342,300 | 89 | 89 | 0.95 |
| 2018 | $1,220,629 | $2,087,409 | $10,374,591 | 505 | 505 | 1.71 |
| 2019 | $432,919 | $1,117,389 | $3,826,491 | 251 | 250 | 2.58 |
| 2020 | $110,841 | $288,684 | $1,217,275 | 61 | 61 | 2.60 |
| 2021 | $136,559 | $418,279 | $1,396,121 | 62 | 62 | 3.06 |
| 2022 | $580,478 | $1,085,211 | $5,236,688 | 150 | 150 | 1.87 |
| 2023 | $285,710 | $417,166 | $3,462,647 | 99 | 99 | 1.46 |
| 2024 | $1,170,208 | $2,827,570 | $12,019,192 | 431 | 431 | 2.42 |
Commodities insured in Kent County
3 commodities here clear the desk’s floors — at least five filed years and a quarter of a million dollars of filed premium. Each carries its own band, so a reader can read the commodity they actually farm rather than the county average.
Soybeans 10 years filed
- 0.67Low end of the filed band
- 1.83Middle of the filed band
- 2.23High end of the filed band
- 2020Worst year filed (4.23)
- 10Years filed
- $2,452,391Premium filed
- $4,743,494Indemnity paid
- $23,325,571Liability insured
- 68,345Quantity planted
- 61,835Quantity lost
- 1,117Policies
- 1,116Policies with a loss
- 1.93Loss ratio, whole span
Causes that carried the indemnity in Kent County
- Drought $2,872,301 indemnity · 10 years
- Excess Moisture/Precipitation/Rain $761,039 indemnity · 10 years
- Heat $439,810 indemnity · 8 years
- Decline in Price $379,360 indemnity · 8 years
- Wildlife $222,658 indemnity · 9 years
- Cold Wet Weather $27,738 indemnity · 8 years
Corn 10 years filed
- 0.82Low end of the filed band
- 1.56Middle of the filed band
- 2.68High end of the filed band
- 2021Worst year filed (3.03)
- 10Years filed
- $2,634,368Premium filed
- $4,534,241Indemnity paid
- $23,559,094Liability insured
- 47,667Quantity planted
- 40,964Quantity lost
- 847Policies
- 847Policies with a loss
- 1.72Loss ratio, whole span
Causes that carried the indemnity in Kent County
- Drought $2,141,287 indemnity · 10 years
- Excess Moisture/Precipitation/Rain $1,492,698 indemnity · 10 years
- Heat $490,673 indemnity · 8 years
- Decline in Price $225,120 indemnity · 8 years
- Wildlife $74,807 indemnity · 7 years
- XX $46,638 indemnity · 4 years
Wheat 10 years filed
- 1.67Low end of the filed band
- 3.45Middle of the filed band
- 6.27High end of the filed band
- 2023Worst year filed (6.97)
- 10Years filed
- $400,446Premium filed
- $1,597,216Indemnity paid
- $4,632,711Liability insured
- 16,894Quantity planted
- 16,910Quantity lost
- 256Policies
- 255Policies with a loss
- 3.99Loss ratio, whole span
Causes that carried the indemnity in Kent County
- Excess Moisture/Precipitation/Rain $954,031 indemnity · 9 years
- Cold Wet Weather $374,558 indemnity · 6 years
- Decline in Price $152,786 indemnity · 7 years
- Drought $45,184 indemnity · 5 years
- Frost $28,029 indemnity · 3 years
- Hail $20,832 indemnity · 1 years
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Figures from the federal source files: EPA’s ECHO downloads, CMS provider files and the FMCSA census.
County cause-of-loss figures from the USDA Risk Management Agency’s Cause of Loss Summary of Business, county files, filed by the agency as a United States Government work. The loss ratio is the agency’s own published column: indemnity divided by premium, re-derived at the summed county-crop grain.