Crop-loss band · Iowa
Marion County, Iowa — crop-loss band
- 1.33Low end of the filed band
- 1.94Middle of the filed band
- 2.41High end of the filed band
- 2018Worst year filed (2.62)
- 10Years filed
Every year the Risk Management Agency has filed for Marion 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 1.33 at the low end to 2.41 at the high end, with 1.94 in the middle. The worst year filed is 2018, at 2.62. 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 | $482,364 | $1,112,739 | $4,373,393 | 138 | 138 | 2.31 |
| 2016 | $39,002 | $52,156 | $386,895 | 23 | 23 | 1.34 |
| 2017 | $779,186 | $1,754,323 | $7,827,394 | 242 | 241 | 2.25 |
| 2018 | $783,344 | $2,048,857 | $8,275,236 | 222 | 222 | 2.62 |
| 2019 | $686,779 | $1,330,766 | $6,566,544 | 203 | 201 | 1.94 |
| 2020 | $385,823 | $698,497 | $4,720,486 | 124 | 124 | 1.81 |
| 2021 | $138,336 | $184,483 | $1,479,427 | 38 | 38 | 1.33 |
| 2022 | $859,458 | $1,804,921 | $10,079,352 | 173 | 173 | 2.10 |
| 2023 | $701,323 | $939,093 | $7,580,223 | 154 | 154 | 1.34 |
| 2024 | $440,542 | $1,059,702 | $5,713,490 | 143 | 143 | 2.41 |
Commodities insured in Marion 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
- 1.18Low end of the filed band
- 1.66Middle of the filed band
- 2.17High end of the filed band
- 2018Worst year filed (2.54)
- 10Years filed
- $3,124,856Premium filed
- $5,733,096Indemnity paid
- $29,886,366Liability insured
- 48,163Quantity planted
- 45,967Quantity lost
- 722Policies
- 721Policies with a loss
- 1.83Loss ratio, whole span
Causes that carried the indemnity in Marion County
- Drought $2,662,694 indemnity · 8 years
- Excess Moisture/Precipitation/Rain $1,559,449 indemnity · 8 years
- Wind/Excess Wind $312,678 indemnity · 4 years
- Decline in Price $277,760 indemnity · 8 years
- Hail $210,449 indemnity · 6 years
- Cold Wet Weather $190,153 indemnity · 8 years
Soybeans 10 years filed
- 1.04Low end of the filed band
- 2.21Middle of the filed band
- 2.76High end of the filed band
- 2024Worst year filed (2.99)
- 10Years filed
- $2,171,301Premium filed
- $5,252,441Indemnity paid
- $27,116,074Liability insured
- 58,652Quantity planted
- 55,260Quantity lost
- 738Policies
- 736Policies with a loss
- 2.42Loss ratio, whole span
Causes that carried the indemnity in Marion County
- Drought $2,662,436 indemnity · 7 years
- Excess Moisture/Precipitation/Rain $1,532,082 indemnity · 10 years
- Flood $333,755 indemnity · 6 years
- Hail $319,305 indemnity · 5 years
- Decline in Price $247,467 indemnity · 7 years
- ARPI/SCO/ECO/STAX/MP/HIP-WI/PACE Crops Only $51,794 indemnity · 2 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.