Crop-loss band · Iowa
Lee County, Iowa — crop-loss band
- 0.97Low end of the filed band
- 1.97Middle of the filed band
- 3.11High end of the filed band
- 2018Worst year filed (3.28)
- 10Years filed
Every year the Risk Management Agency has filed for Lee 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 0.97 at the low end to 3.11 at the high end, with 1.97 in the middle. The worst year filed is 2018, at 3.28. 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 | $1,622,681 | $4,872,751 | $17,599,567 | 462 | 461 | 3.00 |
| 2016 | $170,422 | $530,174 | $1,929,033 | 57 | 57 | 3.11 |
| 2017 | $544,608 | $880,987 | $6,235,327 | 151 | 151 | 1.62 |
| 2018 | $194,199 | $637,729 | $2,285,788 | 121 | 121 | 3.28 |
| 2019 | $1,225,454 | $3,208,270 | $12,760,676 | 357 | 357 | 2.62 |
| 2020 | $1,093,273 | $1,058,002 | $13,608,307 | 224 | 223 | 0.97 |
| 2021 | $1,996,120 | $2,671,818 | $22,037,064 | 427 | 427 | 1.34 |
| 2022 | $1,376,056 | $2,868,861 | $15,605,322 | 233 | 233 | 2.08 |
| 2023 | $652,026 | $1,285,993 | $7,592,665 | 143 | 143 | 1.97 |
| 2024 | $698,716 | $1,162,836 | $8,807,954 | 132 | 132 | 1.66 |
Commodities insured in Lee 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
- 0.81Low end of the filed band
- 1.59Middle of the filed band
- 2.61High end of the filed band
- 2016Worst year filed (2.70)
- 10Years filed
- $7,125,721Premium filed
- $12,598,414Indemnity paid
- $74,175,210Liability insured
- 121,632Quantity planted
- 108,090Quantity lost
- 1,331Policies
- 1,330Policies with a loss
- 1.77Loss ratio, whole span
Causes that carried the indemnity in Lee County
- Excess Moisture/Precipitation/Rain $8,273,275 indemnity · 10 years
- Drought $2,843,543 indemnity · 10 years
- Cold Wet Weather $416,204 indemnity · 8 years
- Plant Disease $286,108 indemnity · 1 years
- Decline in Price $214,879 indemnity · 7 years
- Hail $213,427 indemnity · 2 years
Soybeans 10 years filed
- 1.04Low end of the filed band
- 2.53Middle of the filed band
- 4.67High end of the filed band
- 2016Worst year filed (5.27)
- 10Years filed
- $2,447,834Premium filed
- $6,579,007Indemnity paid
- $34,286,493Liability insured
- 74,269Quantity planted
- 60,277Quantity lost
- 976Policies
- 975Policies with a loss
- 2.69Loss ratio, whole span
Causes that carried the indemnity in Lee County
- Excess Moisture/Precipitation/Rain $3,024,713 indemnity · 10 years
- Drought $3,019,041 indemnity · 10 years
- Cold Wet Weather $161,890 indemnity · 7 years
- ARPI/SCO/ECO/STAX/MP/HIP-WI/PACE Crops Only $87,907 indemnity · 2 years
- Decline in Price $79,779 indemnity · 7 years
- Flood $56,384 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.