Crop-loss band · Delaware
New Castle County, Delaware — crop-loss band
- 0.91Low end of the filed band
- 2.00Middle of the filed band
- 3.48High end of the filed band
- 2020Worst year filed (3.72)
- 10Years filed
Every year the Risk Management Agency has filed for New Castle 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 0.91 at the low end to 3.48 at the high end, with 2.00 in the middle. The worst year filed is 2020, at 3.72. 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 | $31,012 | $61,889 | $455,097 | 33 | 33 | 2.00 |
| 2016 | $8,074 | $11,703 | $84,159 | 11 | 11 | 1.45 |
| 2017 | $82,752 | $75,229 | $918,301 | 37 | 37 | 0.91 |
| 2018 | $280,503 | $698,468 | $3,630,472 | 114 | 114 | 2.49 |
| 2019 | $158,616 | $551,684 | $2,351,639 | 73 | 73 | 3.48 |
| 2020 | $28,496 | $106,124 | $390,624 | 19 | 19 | 3.72 |
| 2021 | $89,058 | $133,998 | $1,115,487 | 27 | 27 | 1.50 |
| 2022 | $401,453 | $1,212,146 | $5,145,695 | 77 | 77 | 3.02 |
| 2023 | $121,043 | $153,070 | $1,441,634 | 40 | 40 | 1.26 |
| 2024 | $318,490 | $646,796 | $4,426,276 | 84 | 84 | 2.03 |
Commodities insured in New Castle County
2 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
- 0.71Low end of the filed band
- 1.98Middle of the filed band
- 3.53High end of the filed band
- 2020Worst year filed (4.77)
- 10Years filed
- $1,045,177Premium filed
- $2,786,745Indemnity paid
- $14,265,016Liability insured
- 35,094Quantity planted
- 33,072Quantity lost
- 350Policies
- 350Policies with a loss
- 2.67Loss ratio, whole span
Causes that carried the indemnity in New Castle County
- Drought $1,776,899 indemnity · 8 years
- Excess Moisture/Precipitation/Rain $367,130 indemnity · 10 years
- Heat $268,855 indemnity · 5 years
- Wildlife $193,960 indemnity · 10 years
- Decline in Price $156,340 indemnity · 7 years
- Insects $19,426 indemnity · 5 years
Corn 10 years filed
- 0.99Low end of the filed band
- 1.91Middle of the filed band
- 2.39High end of the filed band
- 2022Worst year filed (2.66)
- 10Years filed
- $474,320Premium filed
- $864,362Indemnity paid
- $5,694,368Liability insured
- 10,278Quantity planted
- 9,622Quantity lost
- 165Policies
- 165Policies with a loss
- 1.82Loss ratio, whole span
Causes that carried the indemnity in New Castle County
- Drought $468,120 indemnity · 7 years
- Excess Moisture/Precipitation/Rain $257,816 indemnity · 8 years
- Decline in Price $43,537 indemnity · 6 years
- Heat $38,720 indemnity · 3 years
- Wind/Excess Wind $19,680 indemnity · 2 years
- Cold Wet Weather $15,767 indemnity · 2 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.