Crop-loss band · Iowa
Chickasaw County, Iowa — crop-loss band
- 0.66Low end of the filed band
- 1.81Middle of the filed band
- 3.05High end of the filed band
- 2019Worst year filed (3.78)
- 10Years filed
Every year the Risk Management Agency has filed for Chickasaw 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 0.66 at the low end to 3.05 at the high end, with 1.81 in the middle. The worst year filed is 2019, at 3.78. 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 | $359,867 | $406,140 | $4,557,087 | 80 | 80 | 1.13 |
| 2016 | $214,533 | $419,317 | $3,070,938 | 111 | 111 | 1.95 |
| 2017 | $1,457,615 | $1,959,855 | $18,538,519 | 383 | 378 | 1.34 |
| 2018 | $1,285,421 | $2,397,782 | $18,495,420 | 411 | 411 | 1.87 |
| 2019 | $580,005 | $2,195,260 | $8,168,283 | 230 | 230 | 3.78 |
| 2020 | $991,596 | $3,028,309 | $15,958,675 | 315 | 315 | 3.05 |
| 2021 | $1,075,856 | $713,334 | $13,289,334 | 199 | 199 | 0.66 |
| 2022 | $114,756 | $113,146 | $1,415,771 | 26 | 26 | 0.99 |
| 2023 | $7,776,248 | $17,841,411 | $117,537,924 | 1,194 | 1,194 | 2.29 |
| 2024 | $5,507,292 | $9,955,476 | $74,721,792 | 1,244 | 1,244 | 1.81 |
Commodities insured in Chickasaw 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
- 0.99Low end of the filed band
- 1.90Middle of the filed band
- 3.28High end of the filed band
- 2019Worst year filed (4.16)
- 10Years filed
- $11,755,782Premium filed
- $26,627,555Indemnity paid
- $182,678,860Liability insured
- 211,523Quantity planted
- 207,256Quantity lost
- 2,211Policies
- 2,208Policies with a loss
- 2.27Loss ratio, whole span
Causes that carried the indemnity in Chickasaw County
- Drought $13,333,776 indemnity · 8 years
- Excess Moisture/Precipitation/Rain $4,661,899 indemnity · 10 years
- Decline in Price $3,861,463 indemnity · 8 years
- ARPI/SCO/STAX/MP Crops Only $2,587,042 indemnity · 3 years
- Hail $922,107 indemnity · 5 years
- Wind/Excess Wind $513,350 indemnity · 6 years
Soybeans 10 years filed
- 0.60Low end of the filed band
- 1.44Middle of the filed band
- 2.44High end of the filed band
- 2019Worst year filed (2.95)
- 10Years filed
- $7,607,407Premium filed
- $12,402,475Indemnity paid
- $93,074,883Liability insured
- 168,252Quantity planted
- 156,466Quantity lost
- 1,982Policies
- 1,980Policies with a loss
- 1.63Loss ratio, whole span
Causes that carried the indemnity in Chickasaw County
- Drought $5,260,011 indemnity · 8 years
- Excess Moisture/Precipitation/Rain $2,212,819 indemnity · 10 years
- Decline in Price $1,926,024 indemnity · 8 years
- ARPI/SCO/ECO/STAX/MP/HIP-WI/PACE Crops Only $1,298,386 indemnity · 2 years
- Cold Wet Weather $698,685 indemnity · 7 years
- Hail $409,523 indemnity · 4 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.