Crop-loss band · Iowa
Jefferson County, Iowa — crop-loss band
- 0.53Low end of the filed band
- 2.27Middle of the filed band
- 2.76High end of the filed band
- 2015Worst year filed (3.18)
- 10Years filed
Every year the Risk Management Agency has filed for Jefferson 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 0.53 at the low end to 2.76 at the high end, with 2.27 in the middle. The worst year filed is 2015, at 3.18. 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 | $1,091,089 | $3,471,050 | $10,480,930 | 312 | 312 | 3.18 |
| 2016 | $224,722 | $118,337 | $2,509,769 | 66 | 65 | 0.53 |
| 2017 | $1,768,282 | $4,224,323 | $19,837,728 | 347 | 346 | 2.39 |
| 2018 | $254,906 | $703,072 | $2,555,765 | 79 | 79 | 2.76 |
| 2019 | $1,488,776 | $3,373,205 | $16,924,217 | 298 | 298 | 2.27 |
| 2020 | $727,573 | $1,697,253 | $9,428,823 | 201 | 201 | 2.33 |
| 2021 | $2,084,630 | $3,816,424 | $22,858,730 | 351 | 351 | 1.83 |
| 2022 | $2,576,321 | $5,140,549 | $28,483,985 | 310 | 310 | 2.00 |
| 2023 | $684,862 | $1,670,285 | $8,442,174 | 115 | 115 | 2.44 |
| 2024 | $1,019,552 | $977,886 | $12,685,349 | 112 | 112 | 0.96 |
Commodities insured in Jefferson 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
- 0.37Low end of the filed band
- 2.02Middle of the filed band
- 2.90High end of the filed band
- 2018Worst year filed (3.16)
- 10Years filed
- $8,221,633Premium filed
- $16,096,353Indemnity paid
- $82,157,535Liability insured
- 137,379Quantity planted
- 119,464Quantity lost
- 1,221Policies
- 1,220Policies with a loss
- 1.96Loss ratio, whole span
Causes that carried the indemnity in Jefferson County
- Drought $6,977,782 indemnity · 9 years
- Excess Moisture/Precipitation/Rain $6,858,877 indemnity · 10 years
- Cold Wet Weather $544,392 indemnity · 10 years
- Flood $519,431 indemnity · 6 years
- Decline in Price $342,146 indemnity · 7 years
- Hail $320,750 indemnity · 2 years
Soybeans 10 years filed
- 0.93Low end of the filed band
- 2.50Middle of the filed band
- 3.25High end of the filed band
- 2015Worst year filed (3.88)
- 10Years filed
- $3,699,080Premium filed
- $9,096,031Indemnity paid
- $52,049,935Liability insured
- 109,941Quantity planted
- 93,001Quantity lost
- 970Policies
- 969Policies with a loss
- 2.46Loss ratio, whole span
Causes that carried the indemnity in Jefferson County
- Drought $4,592,035 indemnity · 9 years
- Excess Moisture/Precipitation/Rain $3,473,818 indemnity · 10 years
- Hail $349,198 indemnity · 4 years
- Cold Wet Weather $215,932 indemnity · 7 years
- Heat $191,796 indemnity · 4 years
- Flood $100,768 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.