Crop-loss band · Iowa
Pottawattamie County, Iowa — crop-loss band
- 1.49Low end of the filed band
- 1.99Middle of the filed band
- 3.22High end of the filed band
- 2019Worst year filed (5.09)
- 10Years filed
Every year the Risk Management Agency has filed for Pottawattamie 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 1.49 at the low end to 3.22 at the high end, with 1.99 in the middle. The worst year filed is 2019, at 5.09. 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 | $642,615 | $1,273,496 | $9,000,404 | 198 | 195 | 1.98 |
| 2016 | $671,121 | $1,097,094 | $10,194,429 | 222 | 218 | 1.63 |
| 2017 | $1,468,040 | $3,014,708 | $21,074,433 | 298 | 298 | 2.05 |
| 2018 | $3,546,208 | $8,453,401 | $54,261,616 | 862 | 862 | 2.38 |
| 2019 | $1,580,511 | $8,045,853 | $14,018,207 | 378 | 378 | 5.09 |
| 2020 | $2,160,066 | $4,295,228 | $34,393,046 | 446 | 446 | 1.99 |
| 2021 | $171,046 | $550,174 | $1,907,243 | 41 | 41 | 3.22 |
| 2022 | $4,411,386 | $6,557,254 | $53,726,156 | 547 | 547 | 1.49 |
| 2023 | $10,365,872 | $16,236,595 | $142,116,461 | 1,158 | 1,157 | 1.57 |
| 2024 | $5,264,188 | $14,239,694 | $65,833,003 | 911 | 911 | 2.71 |
Commodities insured in Pottawattamie 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
- 1.61Low end of the filed band
- 2.01Middle of the filed band
- 4.65High end of the filed band
- 2019Worst year filed (5.09)
- 10Years filed
- $18,695,777Premium filed
- $41,159,704Indemnity paid
- $252,589,487Liability insured
- 307,542Quantity planted
- 311,286Quantity lost
- 2,593Policies
- 2,588Policies with a loss
- 2.20Loss ratio, whole span
Causes that carried the indemnity in Pottawattamie County
- Drought $14,785,755 indemnity · 8 years
- Decline in Price $6,778,198 indemnity · 8 years
- Excess Moisture/Precipitation/Rain $6,613,512 indemnity · 8 years
- Flood $5,695,734 indemnity · 5 years
- Wind/Excess Wind $2,731,040 indemnity · 9 years
- Hail $2,070,216 indemnity · 7 years
Soybeans 10 years filed
- 1.15Low end of the filed band
- 1.91Middle of the filed band
- 3.03High end of the filed band
- 2019Worst year filed (5.09)
- 10Years filed
- $11,585,276Premium filed
- $22,603,793Indemnity paid
- $153,935,511Liability insured
- 272,538Quantity planted
- 267,726Quantity lost
- 2,468Policies
- 2,465Policies with a loss
- 1.95Loss ratio, whole span
Causes that carried the indemnity in Pottawattamie County
- Drought $7,968,731 indemnity · 9 years
- Excess Moisture/Precipitation/Rain $4,202,544 indemnity · 9 years
- Flood $3,822,635 indemnity · 4 years
- Decline in Price $3,440,289 indemnity · 9 years
- Hail $1,692,989 indemnity · 8 years
- ARPI/SCO/STAX/MP Crops Only $891,849 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.