Crop-loss band · Iowa
Dubuque County, Iowa — crop-loss band
- 1.44Low end of the filed band
- 2.88Middle of the filed band
- 3.63High end of the filed band
- 2020Worst year filed (3.80)
- 10Years filed
Every year the Risk Management Agency has filed for Dubuque 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 1.44 at the low end to 3.63 at the high end, with 2.88 in the middle. The worst year filed is 2020, at 3.80. 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 | $546,712 | $1,334,222 | $8,011,433 | 233 | 233 | 2.44 |
| 2016 | $253,024 | $506,011 | $4,347,882 | 97 | 97 | 2.00 |
| 2017 | $529,530 | $1,525,902 | $8,110,154 | 218 | 218 | 2.88 |
| 2018 | $454,248 | $1,435,297 | $7,317,688 | 197 | 197 | 3.16 |
| 2019 | $560,307 | $2,035,188 | $10,246,080 | 230 | 230 | 3.63 |
| 2020 | $909,606 | $3,455,702 | $19,236,901 | 308 | 308 | 3.80 |
| 2021 | $389,276 | $1,397,381 | $5,287,053 | 125 | 125 | 3.59 |
| 2022 | $246,119 | $355,589 | $3,316,850 | 61 | 61 | 1.44 |
| 2023 | $5,041,471 | $14,602,282 | $96,671,409 | 1,116 | 1,115 | 2.90 |
| 2024 | $2,346,881 | $4,953,697 | $37,046,315 | 572 | 572 | 2.11 |
Commodities insured in Dubuque 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
- 1.95Low end of the filed band
- 2.98Middle of the filed band
- 3.87High end of the filed band
- 2018Worst year filed (4.47)
- 10Years filed
- $9,052,155Premium filed
- $26,679,230Indemnity paid
- $168,652,056Liability insured
- 187,420Quantity planted
- 192,674Quantity lost
- 2,409Policies
- 2,409Policies with a loss
- 2.95Loss ratio, whole span
Causes that carried the indemnity in Dubuque County
- Drought $13,938,921 indemnity · 9 years
- Excess Moisture/Precipitation/Rain $5,043,886 indemnity · 10 years
- Decline in Price $3,634,323 indemnity · 9 years
- Wind/Excess Wind $1,809,214 indemnity · 7 years
- ARPI/SCO/ECO/STAX/MP/HIP-WI/PACE Crops Only $617,922 indemnity · 2 years
- Cold Wet Weather $541,791 indemnity · 6 years
Soybeans 10 years filed
- 0.95Low end of the filed band
- 2.25Middle of the filed band
- 2.81High end of the filed band
- 2019Worst year filed (3.25)
- 10Years filed
- $2,225,019Premium filed
- $4,922,041Indemnity paid
- $30,939,709Liability insured
- 49,073Quantity planted
- 51,605Quantity lost
- 748Policies
- 747Policies with a loss
- 2.21Loss ratio, whole span
Causes that carried the indemnity in Dubuque County
- Excess Moisture/Precipitation/Rain $1,612,038 indemnity · 9 years
- Drought $1,583,558 indemnity · 8 years
- Decline in Price $658,150 indemnity · 9 years
- ARPI/SCO/ECO/STAX/MP/HIP-WI/PACE Crops Only $372,659 indemnity · 2 years
- Cold Wet Weather $204,407 indemnity · 8 years
- Flood $164,883 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.