Crop-loss band · Iowa
Linn County, Iowa — crop-loss band
- 1.07Low end of the filed band
- 2.87Middle of the filed band
- 4.02High end of the filed band
- 2020Worst year filed (7.12)
- 10Years filed
Every year the Risk Management Agency has filed for Linn 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 4.02 at the high end, with 2.87 in the middle. The worst year filed is 2020, at 7.12. 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 | $354,794 | $807,053 | $5,814,346 | 158 | 158 | 2.27 |
| 2016 | $67,518 | $267,928 | $1,253,977 | 59 | 59 | 3.97 |
| 2017 | $175,562 | $508,781 | $3,186,903 | 106 | 106 | 2.90 |
| 2018 | $260,960 | $677,394 | $4,880,339 | 123 | 123 | 2.60 |
| 2019 | $367,347 | $1,333,262 | $7,178,291 | 232 | 231 | 3.63 |
| 2020 | $2,609,623 | $18,591,956 | $64,547,492 | 819 | 819 | 7.12 |
| 2021 | $736,235 | $2,114,166 | $10,936,727 | 204 | 204 | 2.87 |
| 2022 | $148,285 | $311,517 | $2,310,595 | 38 | 38 | 2.10 |
| 2023 | $8,932,017 | $35,884,054 | $181,698,686 | 1,453 | 1,453 | 4.02 |
| 2024 | $1,432,765 | $1,526,627 | $22,023,342 | 234 | 234 | 1.07 |
Commodities insured in Linn 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
- 0.71Low end of the filed band
- 3.37Middle of the filed band
- 5.14High end of the filed band
- 2020Worst year filed (7.78)
- 10Years filed
- $11,468,630Premium filed
- $51,642,924Indemnity paid
- $230,826,686Liability insured
- 249,292Quantity planted
- 267,719Quantity lost
- 2,097Policies
- 2,097Policies with a loss
- 4.50Loss ratio, whole span
Causes that carried the indemnity in Linn County
- Drought $27,170,523 indemnity · 10 years
- Wind/Excess Wind $14,962,300 indemnity · 7 years
- Decline in Price $3,614,920 indemnity · 9 years
- ARPI/SCO/STAX/MP/HIP WI Crops Only $2,546,285 indemnity · 3 years
- Excess Moisture/Precipitation/Rain $1,649,841 indemnity · 9 years
- Hail $1,195,052 indemnity · 3 years
Soybeans 10 years filed
- 1.63Low end of the filed band
- 2.42Middle of the filed band
- 3.34High end of the filed band
- 2016Worst year filed (5.16)
- 10Years filed
- $3,616,476Premium filed
- $10,379,814Indemnity paid
- $73,004,012Liability insured
- 122,140Quantity planted
- 126,128Quantity lost
- 1,329Policies
- 1,328Policies with a loss
- 2.87Loss ratio, whole span
Causes that carried the indemnity in Linn County
- Drought $6,734,043 indemnity · 8 years
- Excess Moisture/Precipitation/Rain $1,175,841 indemnity · 9 years
- Decline in Price $956,740 indemnity · 8 years
- ARPI/SCO/STAX/MP Crops Only $767,632 indemnity · 4 years
- Hail $272,793 indemnity · 6 years
- Wind/Excess Wind $193,454 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.