Crop-loss band · Iowa
Dallas County, Iowa — crop-loss band
- 0.57Low end of the filed band
- 1.77Middle of the filed band
- 3.92High end of the filed band
- 2020Worst year filed (6.53)
- 10Years filed
Every year the Risk Management Agency has filed for Dallas 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 0.57 at the low end to 3.92 at the high end, with 1.77 in the middle. The worst year filed is 2020, at 6.53. 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 | $772,651 | $1,693,783 | $13,394,786 | 261 | 261 | 2.19 |
| 2016 | $164,222 | $290,849 | $3,260,717 | 80 | 76 | 1.77 |
| 2017 | $712,786 | $1,932,012 | $12,926,034 | 194 | 194 | 2.71 |
| 2018 | $1,415,038 | $3,005,713 | $26,911,160 | 464 | 463 | 2.12 |
| 2019 | $398,479 | $702,994 | $7,875,127 | 157 | 157 | 1.76 |
| 2020 | $3,340,333 | $21,818,156 | $71,938,334 | 979 | 979 | 6.53 |
| 2021 | $102,551 | $402,242 | $1,690,993 | 41 | 41 | 3.92 |
| 2022 | $2,304,546 | $2,557,034 | $33,745,248 | 218 | 217 | 1.11 |
| 2023 | $3,064,625 | $1,751,240 | $29,649,121 | 257 | 257 | 0.57 |
| 2024 | $421,160 | $429,816 | $6,306,868 | 75 | 75 | 1.02 |
Commodities insured in Dallas 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
- 0.52Low end of the filed band
- 1.71Middle of the filed band
- 3.19High end of the filed band
- 2020Worst year filed (8.16)
- 10Years filed
- $9,276,668Premium filed
- $27,072,397Indemnity paid
- $145,796,163Liability insured
- 172,721Quantity planted
- 183,970Quantity lost
- 1,497Policies
- 1,495Policies with a loss
- 2.92Loss ratio, whole span
Causes that carried the indemnity in Dallas County
- Wind/Excess Wind $15,104,803 indemnity · 4 years
- Drought $6,102,286 indemnity · 8 years
- ARPI/SCO/STAX/MP Crops Only $2,566,000 indemnity · 5 years
- Excess Moisture/Precipitation/Rain $1,854,240 indemnity · 9 years
- Decline in Price $807,766 indemnity · 9 years
- Hail $417,761 indemnity · 5 years
Soybeans 10 years filed
- 1.07Low end of the filed band
- 1.78Middle of the filed band
- 2.90High end of the filed band
- 2021Worst year filed (5.08)
- 10Years filed
- $3,419,723Premium filed
- $7,511,442Indemnity paid
- $61,902,225Liability insured
- 124,842Quantity planted
- 119,555Quantity lost
- 1,229Policies
- 1,225Policies with a loss
- 2.20Loss ratio, whole span
Causes that carried the indemnity in Dallas County
- Drought $2,998,565 indemnity · 8 years
- Excess Moisture/Precipitation/Rain $1,883,847 indemnity · 9 years
- Wind/Excess Wind $863,258 indemnity · 2 years
- Decline in Price $787,400 indemnity · 9 years
- Hail $459,799 indemnity · 7 years
- ARPI/SCO/STAX/MP Crops Only $387,143 indemnity · 3 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.