Crop-loss band · Iowa
Mahaska County, Iowa — crop-loss band
- 1.39Low end of the filed band
- 1.80Middle of the filed band
- 2.87High end of the filed band
- 2018Worst year filed (3.39)
- 10Years filed
Every year the Risk Management Agency has filed for Mahaska 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 1.39 at the low end to 2.87 at the high end, with 1.80 in the middle. The worst year filed is 2018, at 3.39. 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 | $402,573 | $798,764 | $3,824,235 | 140 | 140 | 1.98 |
| 2016 | $64,779 | $171,214 | $726,693 | 21 | 21 | 2.64 |
| 2017 | $2,070,905 | $3,643,206 | $24,750,004 | 400 | 400 | 1.76 |
| 2018 | $534,377 | $1,813,460 | $6,394,421 | 244 | 244 | 3.39 |
| 2019 | $1,139,125 | $3,263,941 | $12,467,144 | 357 | 353 | 2.87 |
| 2020 | $330,796 | $757,931 | $4,832,313 | 119 | 118 | 2.29 |
| 2021 | $174,820 | $271,430 | $2,084,885 | 53 | 53 | 1.55 |
| 2022 | $1,414,311 | $1,970,445 | $20,220,778 | 171 | 171 | 1.39 |
| 2023 | $1,079,888 | $1,939,412 | $14,140,022 | 173 | 173 | 1.80 |
| 2024 | $1,704,252 | $2,988,416 | $23,548,293 | 338 | 338 | 1.75 |
Commodities insured in Mahaska 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
- 1.19Low end of the filed band
- 1.78Middle of the filed band
- 2.80High end of the filed band
- 2019Worst year filed (2.88)
- 10Years filed
- $6,686,701Premium filed
- $12,425,525Indemnity paid
- $80,843,677Liability insured
- 102,535Quantity planted
- 109,767Quantity lost
- 1,173Policies
- 1,168Policies with a loss
- 1.86Loss ratio, whole span
Causes that carried the indemnity in Mahaska County
- Drought $5,492,910 indemnity · 9 years
- Flood $2,626,717 indemnity · 6 years
- Excess Moisture/Precipitation/Rain $2,591,198 indemnity · 9 years
- Decline in Price $552,736 indemnity · 8 years
- ARPI/SCO/STAX/MP Crops Only $522,253 indemnity · 4 years
- Wind/Excess Wind $389,880 indemnity · 7 years
Soybeans 10 years filed
- 1.55Low end of the filed band
- 2.39Middle of the filed band
- 2.81High end of the filed band
- 2018Worst year filed (3.76)
- 10Years filed
- $2,229,125Premium filed
- $5,192,694Indemnity paid
- $32,145,111Liability insured
- 59,493Quantity planted
- 59,276Quantity lost
- 843Policies
- 843Policies with a loss
- 2.33Loss ratio, whole span
Causes that carried the indemnity in Mahaska County
- Drought $2,027,561 indemnity · 8 years
- Excess Moisture/Precipitation/Rain $1,347,771 indemnity · 10 years
- Flood $906,238 indemnity · 5 years
- Decline in Price $343,361 indemnity · 6 years
- ARPI/SCO/STAX/MP Crops Only $337,845 indemnity · 2 years
- Hail $115,852 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.