Crop-loss band · Iowa
Plymouth County, Iowa — crop-loss band
- 1.48Low end of the filed band
- 1.88Middle of the filed band
- 2.98High end of the filed band
- 2018Worst year filed (4.22)
- 10Years filed
Every year the Risk Management Agency has filed for Plymouth 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 1.48 at the low end to 2.98 at the high end, with 1.88 in the middle. The worst year filed is 2018, at 4.22. 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 | $194,512 | $288,408 | $3,138,518 | 98 | 98 | 1.48 |
| 2016 | $1,042,197 | $2,964,539 | $17,556,997 | 360 | 360 | 2.84 |
| 2017 | $3,079,596 | $5,080,679 | $45,114,776 | 737 | 737 | 1.65 |
| 2018 | $855,965 | $3,611,601 | $13,680,760 | 373 | 373 | 4.22 |
| 2019 | $884,633 | $2,633,426 | $14,362,421 | 401 | 400 | 2.98 |
| 2020 | $1,352,777 | $2,492,948 | $23,443,369 | 395 | 395 | 1.84 |
| 2021 | $7,170,515 | $14,220,054 | $59,993,949 | 906 | 904 | 1.98 |
| 2022 | $18,754,262 | $44,450,180 | $202,988,559 | 1,736 | 1,736 | 2.37 |
| 2023 | $13,418,874 | $25,241,101 | $153,036,548 | 1,536 | 1,536 | 1.88 |
| 2024 | $9,200,476 | $16,833,549 | $85,856,073 | 1,296 | 1,296 | 1.83 |
Commodities insured in Plymouth 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
- 1.49Low end of the filed band
- 1.84Middle of the filed band
- 4.27High end of the filed band
- 2018Worst year filed (4.80)
- 10Years filed
- $42,787,118Premium filed
- $90,415,162Indemnity paid
- $430,668,727Liability insured
- 459,344Quantity planted
- 457,456Quantity lost
- 4,726Policies
- 4,726Policies with a loss
- 2.11Loss ratio, whole span
Causes that carried the indemnity in Plymouth County
- Drought $48,058,539 indemnity · 8 years
- ARPI/SCO/ECO/STAX/MP/HIP WI Crops Only $19,843,928 indemnity · 4 years
- Excess Moisture/Precipitation/Rain $6,612,651 indemnity · 8 years
- Hail $6,035,247 indemnity · 6 years
- Decline in Price $4,553,701 indemnity · 9 years
- Flood $3,616,440 indemnity · 6 years
Soybeans 10 years filed
- 1.16Low end of the filed band
- 1.99Middle of the filed band
- 2.80High end of the filed band
- 2018Worst year filed (3.86)
- 10Years filed
- $13,166,688Premium filed
- $27,401,323Indemnity paid
- $188,503,243Liability insured
- 301,359Quantity planted
- 291,812Quantity lost
- 3,112Policies
- 3,109Policies with a loss
- 2.08Loss ratio, whole span
Causes that carried the indemnity in Plymouth County
- Drought $16,727,926 indemnity · 8 years
- Excess Moisture/Precipitation/Rain $3,111,729 indemnity · 8 years
- Flood $2,589,392 indemnity · 3 years
- Hail $2,196,838 indemnity · 9 years
- ARPI/SCO/ECO/STAX/MP/HIP-WI/PACE Crops Only $1,363,168 indemnity · 3 years
- Decline in Price $956,421 indemnity · 10 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.