Crop-loss band · Iowa
Buena Vista County, Iowa — crop-loss band
- 0.55Low end of the filed band
- 1.77Middle of the filed band
- 2.88High end of the filed band
- 2015Worst year filed (3.04)
- 10Years filed
Every year the Risk Management Agency has filed for Buena Vista 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 0.55 at the low end to 2.88 at the high end, with 1.77 in the middle. The worst year filed is 2015, at 3.04. 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 | $71,762 | $217,825 | $1,324,017 | 47 | 47 | 3.04 |
| 2016 | $931,302 | $515,106 | $23,342,921 | 274 | 274 | 0.55 |
| 2017 | $1,208,292 | $2,648,665 | $23,380,171 | 436 | 436 | 2.19 |
| 2018 | $1,080,954 | $3,112,434 | $24,784,411 | 499 | 499 | 2.88 |
| 2019 | $1,311,105 | $2,709,478 | $30,576,151 | 493 | 493 | 2.07 |
| 2020 | $740,438 | $1,988,886 | $18,438,675 | 342 | 341 | 2.69 |
| 2021 | $101,357 | $173,214 | $1,606,055 | 41 | 41 | 1.71 |
| 2022 | $836,726 | $1,483,036 | $14,728,885 | 228 | 228 | 1.77 |
| 2023 | $4,299,643 | $6,681,032 | $81,359,152 | 726 | 726 | 1.55 |
| 2024 | $5,518,708 | $9,191,857 | $101,381,018 | 982 | 982 | 1.67 |
Commodities insured in Buena Vista 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.
Corn 10 years filed
- 0.47Low end of the filed band
- 1.88Middle of the filed band
- 2.73High end of the filed band
- 2018Worst year filed (3.38)
- 10Years filed
- $11,473,251Premium filed
- $18,541,433Indemnity paid
- $223,135,704Liability insured
- 263,290Quantity planted
- 215,620Quantity lost
- 2,349Policies
- 2,349Policies with a loss
- 1.62Loss ratio, whole span
Causes that carried the indemnity in Buena Vista County
- Drought $6,200,151 indemnity · 7 years
- Excess Moisture/Precipitation/Rain $5,636,847 indemnity · 7 years
- Decline in Price $2,774,935 indemnity · 8 years
- ARPI/SCO/STAX/MP Crops Only $2,411,388 indemnity · 3 years
- Hail $1,038,930 indemnity · 8 years
- Heat $196,658 indemnity · 6 years
Soybeans 10 years filed
- 1.17Low end of the filed band
- 2.33Middle of the filed band
- 4.11High end of the filed band
- 2016Worst year filed (4.67)
- 10Years filed
- $4,627,036Premium filed
- $10,180,100Indemnity paid
- $97,785,752Liability insured
- 168,335Quantity planted
- 158,621Quantity lost
- 1,719Policies
- 1,718Policies with a loss
- 2.20Loss ratio, whole span
Causes that carried the indemnity in Buena Vista County
- Excess Moisture/Precipitation/Rain $4,798,607 indemnity · 8 years
- Drought $2,230,494 indemnity · 6 years
- Decline in Price $1,217,087 indemnity · 9 years
- ARPI/SCO/STAX/MP Crops Only $1,055,075 indemnity · 2 years
- Hail $471,987 indemnity · 6 years
- Heat $212,841 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.