Crop-loss band · Iowa
Butler County, Iowa — crop-loss band
- 1.18Low end of the filed band
- 1.95Middle of the filed band
- 3.31High end of the filed band
- 2016Worst year filed (3.90)
- 10Years filed
Every year the Risk Management Agency has filed for Butler 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 1.18 at the low end to 3.31 at the high end, with 1.95 in the middle. The worst year filed is 2016, at 3.90. 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 | $252,473 | $501,807 | $3,401,353 | 75 | 75 | 1.99 |
| 2016 | $208,248 | $812,096 | $2,521,000 | 122 | 121 | 3.90 |
| 2017 | $566,038 | $1,105,855 | $8,793,439 | 221 | 221 | 1.95 |
| 2018 | $868,690 | $1,671,321 | $13,688,252 | 241 | 241 | 1.92 |
| 2019 | $846,734 | $1,767,298 | $15,275,738 | 225 | 225 | 2.09 |
| 2020 | $1,480,451 | $3,181,196 | $28,743,769 | 296 | 296 | 2.15 |
| 2021 | $1,454,124 | $1,711,700 | $21,737,909 | 243 | 239 | 1.18 |
| 2022 | $334,777 | $458,766 | $4,636,990 | 58 | 58 | 1.37 |
| 2023 | $11,592,592 | $38,329,957 | $193,538,573 | 1,253 | 1,252 | 3.31 |
| 2024 | $6,665,182 | $11,327,456 | $77,236,252 | 865 | 865 | 1.70 |
Commodities insured in Butler 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
- 1.62Low end of the filed band
- 1.92Middle of the filed band
- 3.46High end of the filed band
- 2016Worst year filed (3.47)
- 10Years filed
- $15,882,902Premium filed
- $43,406,001Indemnity paid
- $248,179,294Liability insured
- 237,363Quantity planted
- 251,687Quantity lost
- 1,743Policies
- 1,737Policies with a loss
- 2.73Loss ratio, whole span
Causes that carried the indemnity in Butler County
- Drought $25,745,839 indemnity · 8 years
- ARPI/SCO/ECO/STAX/MP/HIP WI Crops Only $10,528,289 indemnity · 3 years
- Decline in Price $3,074,618 indemnity · 9 years
- Excess Moisture/Precipitation/Rain $3,039,666 indemnity · 9 years
- Flood $443,756 indemnity · 7 years
- Hail $257,316 indemnity · 5 years
Soybeans 10 years filed
- 0.62Low end of the filed band
- 1.83Middle of the filed band
- 2.97High end of the filed band
- 2016Worst year filed (4.73)
- 10Years filed
- $8,386,407Premium filed
- $17,461,451Indemnity paid
- $121,393,980Liability insured
- 206,038Quantity planted
- 197,457Quantity lost
- 1,856Policies
- 1,856Policies with a loss
- 2.08Loss ratio, whole span
Causes that carried the indemnity in Butler County
- Drought $8,036,078 indemnity · 8 years
- Excess Moisture/Precipitation/Rain $3,239,008 indemnity · 9 years
- ARPI/SCO/STAX/MP Crops Only $3,067,445 indemnity · 3 years
- Decline in Price $1,677,942 indemnity · 9 years
- Hail $493,321 indemnity · 5 years
- Flood $460,578 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.