Crop-loss band · Iowa
Ida County, Iowa — crop-loss band
- 1.07Low end of the filed band
- 2.21Middle of the filed band
- 3.24High end of the filed band
- 2019Worst year filed (3.34)
- 10Years filed
Every year the Risk Management Agency has filed for Ida 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 1.07 at the low end to 3.24 at the high end, with 2.21 in the middle. The worst year filed is 2019, at 3.34. 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 | $213,757 | $379,561 | $3,700,540 | 40 | 40 | 1.78 |
| 2016 | $153,673 | $470,251 | $3,197,879 | 44 | 44 | 3.06 |
| 2017 | $641,245 | $1,371,036 | $11,928,350 | 162 | 161 | 2.14 |
| 2018 | $136,961 | $303,012 | $2,584,045 | 64 | 64 | 2.21 |
| 2019 | $88,505 | $295,981 | $1,892,438 | 48 | 48 | 3.34 |
| 2020 | $2,191,038 | $6,742,404 | $44,283,318 | 463 | 459 | 3.08 |
| 2021 | $349,170 | $1,130,183 | $5,442,518 | 68 | 68 | 3.24 |
| 2022 | $948,435 | $1,785,212 | $13,788,168 | 115 | 115 | 1.88 |
| 2023 | $8,727,688 | $25,122,820 | $144,005,150 | 1,131 | 1,130 | 2.88 |
| 2024 | $1,256,982 | $1,346,406 | $14,332,510 | 184 | 184 | 1.07 |
Commodities insured in Ida 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
- 1.08Low end of the filed band
- 2.86Middle of the filed band
- 3.62High end of the filed band
- 2021Worst year filed (3.63)
- 10Years filed
- $10,857,264Premium filed
- $30,962,055Indemnity paid
- $180,371,150Liability insured
- 177,502Quantity planted
- 183,476Quantity lost
- 1,348Policies
- 1,343Policies with a loss
- 2.85Loss ratio, whole span
Causes that carried the indemnity in Ida County
- Drought $22,158,212 indemnity · 7 years
- Decline in Price $3,714,126 indemnity · 7 years
- ARPI/SCO/STAX/MP/HIP WI Crops Only $2,703,819 indemnity · 3 years
- Heat $685,750 indemnity · 2 years
- Excess Moisture/Precipitation/Rain $547,726 indemnity · 7 years
- Wind/Excess Wind $512,659 indemnity · 8 years
Soybeans 10 years filed
- 1.06Low end of the filed band
- 2.10Middle of the filed band
- 3.57High end of the filed band
- 2016Worst year filed (5.78)
- 10Years filed
- $3,850,189Premium filed
- $7,984,811Indemnity paid
- $64,783,765Liability insured
- 96,058Quantity planted
- 95,267Quantity lost
- 971Policies
- 970Policies with a loss
- 2.07Loss ratio, whole span
Causes that carried the indemnity in Ida County
- Drought $4,601,295 indemnity · 6 years
- ARPI/SCO/ECO/STAX/MP/HIP-WI/PACE Crops Only $1,199,846 indemnity · 2 years
- Decline in Price $708,761 indemnity · 8 years
- Excess Moisture/Precipitation/Rain $663,692 indemnity · 8 years
- Hail $497,609 indemnity · 8 years
- Cold Wet Weather $125,971 indemnity · 6 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.