Crop-loss band · Delaware
Sussex County, Delaware — crop-loss band
- 1.75Low end of the filed band
- 2.31Middle of the filed band
- 3.02High end of the filed band
- 2020Worst year filed (3.11)
- 10Years filed
Every year the Risk Management Agency has filed for Sussex 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 1.75 at the low end to 3.02 at the high end, with 2.31 in the middle. The worst year filed is 2020, at 3.11. 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 | $632,749 | $1,241,349 | $4,995,997 | 328 | 328 | 1.96 |
| 2016 | $881,754 | $1,542,608 | $8,471,811 | 434 | 434 | 1.75 |
| 2017 | $252,018 | $441,321 | $2,521,494 | 175 | 175 | 1.75 |
| 2018 | $1,664,927 | $4,341,792 | $17,159,863 | 866 | 864 | 2.61 |
| 2019 | $807,638 | $1,697,418 | $6,063,213 | 543 | 543 | 2.10 |
| 2020 | $519,101 | $1,613,384 | $5,180,115 | 268 | 268 | 3.11 |
| 2021 | $492,127 | $1,158,810 | $4,123,531 | 195 | 195 | 2.35 |
| 2022 | $1,206,368 | $2,804,877 | $9,228,634 | 358 | 358 | 2.33 |
| 2023 | $921,161 | $2,128,470 | $8,804,848 | 310 | 310 | 2.31 |
| 2024 | $1,840,123 | $5,549,341 | $15,931,200 | 793 | 793 | 3.02 |
Commodities insured in Sussex County
4 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.
Corn 10 years filed
- 1.01Low end of the filed band
- 1.77Middle of the filed band
- 2.60High end of the filed band
- 2024Worst year filed (3.06)
- 10Years filed
- $4,514,510Premium filed
- $10,386,365Indemnity paid
- $43,152,049Liability insured
- 95,332Quantity planted
- 88,529Quantity lost
- 1,824Policies
- 1,824Policies with a loss
- 2.30Loss ratio, whole span
Causes that carried the indemnity in Sussex County
- Drought $3,826,573 indemnity · 10 years
- Excess Moisture/Precipitation/Rain $3,253,945 indemnity · 10 years
- Heat $1,999,066 indemnity · 10 years
- Decline in Price $589,233 indemnity · 10 years
- Wildlife $540,487 indemnity · 9 years
- XX $62,130 indemnity · 4 years
Soybeans 10 years filed
- 1.23Low end of the filed band
- 1.91Middle of the filed band
- 2.57High end of the filed band
- 2024Worst year filed (2.64)
- 10Years filed
- $3,997,400Premium filed
- $8,273,779Indemnity paid
- $29,407,617Liability insured
- 101,109Quantity planted
- 96,183Quantity lost
- 2,004Policies
- 2,003Policies with a loss
- 2.07Loss ratio, whole span
Causes that carried the indemnity in Sussex County
- Drought $4,224,294 indemnity · 10 years
- Excess Moisture/Precipitation/Rain $1,650,340 indemnity · 10 years
- Heat $1,138,222 indemnity · 9 years
- Wildlife $684,467 indemnity · 10 years
- Decline in Price $478,778 indemnity · 8 years
- XX $40,566 indemnity · 7 years
Processing Beans 10 years filed
- 4.88Low end of the filed band
- 6.84Middle of the filed band
- 8.68High end of the filed band
- 2020Worst year filed (10.41)
- 10Years filed
- $307,930Premium filed
- $2,222,032Indemnity paid
- $4,824,689Liability insured
- 9,991Quantity planted
- 9,982Quantity lost
- 148Policies
- 148Policies with a loss
- 7.22Loss ratio, whole span
Causes that carried the indemnity in Sussex County
- Excess Moisture/Precipitation/Rain $1,327,725 indemnity · 10 years
- Heat $535,472 indemnity · 8 years
- Drought $202,170 indemnity · 8 years
- Cold Wet Weather $89,852 indemnity · 1 years
- Frost $36,873 indemnity · 1 years
- Freeze $12,733 indemnity · 1 years
Wheat 10 years filed
- 2.80Low end of the filed band
- 3.85Middle of the filed band
- 5.48High end of the filed band
- 2021Worst year filed (7.84)
- 10Years filed
- $398,126Premium filed
- $1,637,194Indemnity paid
- $5,096,350Liability insured
- 19,304Quantity planted
- 19,421Quantity lost
- 294Policies
- 293Policies with a loss
- 4.11Loss ratio, whole span
Causes that carried the indemnity in Sussex County
- Excess Moisture/Precipitation/Rain $916,969 indemnity · 9 years
- Cold Wet Weather $356,574 indemnity · 7 years
- Frost $159,746 indemnity · 3 years
- Decline in Price $110,204 indemnity · 6 years
- Drought $50,177 indemnity · 4 years
- Wildlife $13,108 indemnity · 5 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.