Crop-loss band · Iowa
Iowa County, Iowa — crop-loss band
- 1.47Low end of the filed band
- 2.14Middle of the filed band
- 3.87High end of the filed band
- 2020Worst year filed (4.22)
- 10Years filed
Every year the Risk Management Agency has filed for Iowa 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 1.47 at the low end to 3.87 at the high end, with 2.14 in the middle. The worst year filed is 2020, at 4.22. 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 | $573,444 | $1,225,831 | $8,337,420 | 209 | 208 | 2.14 |
| 2016 | $181,341 | $453,790 | $3,209,777 | 56 | 55 | 2.50 |
| 2017 | $321,882 | $753,870 | $4,375,095 | 134 | 134 | 2.34 |
| 2018 | $991,810 | $3,036,196 | $14,349,525 | 301 | 301 | 3.06 |
| 2019 | $1,564,218 | $6,059,739 | $22,501,384 | 437 | 436 | 3.87 |
| 2020 | $3,728,225 | $15,714,640 | $68,792,879 | 853 | 836 | 4.22 |
| 2021 | $222,508 | $437,652 | $2,732,266 | 59 | 59 | 1.97 |
| 2022 | $448,414 | $804,878 | $5,112,738 | 100 | 100 | 1.79 |
| 2023 | $3,753,050 | $6,116,219 | $51,268,684 | 427 | 426 | 1.63 |
| 2024 | $1,418,838 | $2,089,211 | $16,035,165 | 203 | 203 | 1.47 |
Commodities insured in Iowa 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
- 1.60Low end of the filed band
- 2.63Middle of the filed band
- 4.58High end of the filed band
- 2018Worst year filed (5.34)
- 10Years filed
- $8,496,284Premium filed
- $26,991,286Indemnity paid
- $133,472,357Liability insured
- 181,832Quantity planted
- 178,444Quantity lost
- 1,590Policies
- 1,573Policies with a loss
- 3.18Loss ratio, whole span
Causes that carried the indemnity in Iowa County
- Wind/Excess Wind $10,859,616 indemnity · 7 years
- Drought $7,318,360 indemnity · 10 years
- Excess Moisture/Precipitation/Rain $6,025,188 indemnity · 9 years
- ARPI/SCO/STAX/MP/HIP WI Crops Only $1,011,061 indemnity · 3 years
- Flood $771,312 indemnity · 6 years
- Decline in Price $478,424 indemnity · 8 years
Soybeans 10 years filed
- 1.03Low end of the filed band
- 1.89Middle of the filed band
- 2.94High end of the filed band
- 2019Worst year filed (3.26)
- 10Years filed
- $4,707,446Premium filed
- $9,700,740Indemnity paid
- $63,242,576Liability insured
- 123,321Quantity planted
- 116,304Quantity lost
- 1,189Policies
- 1,185Policies with a loss
- 2.06Loss ratio, whole span
Causes that carried the indemnity in Iowa County
- Drought $3,841,554 indemnity · 9 years
- Excess Moisture/Precipitation/Rain $3,457,847 indemnity · 9 years
- Flood $863,651 indemnity · 7 years
- Decline in Price $429,019 indemnity · 8 years
- ARPI/SCO/STAX/MP Crops Only $341,381 indemnity · 4 years
- Wind/Excess Wind $277,746 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.