Crop-loss band · Iowa
Scott County, Iowa — crop-loss band
- 0.99Low end of the filed band
- 2.58Middle of the filed band
- 3.25High end of the filed band
- 2016Worst year filed (3.71)
- 10Years filed
Every year the Risk Management Agency has filed for Scott 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 0.99 at the low end to 3.25 at the high end, with 2.58 in the middle. The worst year filed is 2016, at 3.71. 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 | $267,434 | $750,013 | $4,208,702 | 85 | 85 | 2.80 |
| 2016 | $68,657 | $254,539 | $1,430,406 | 31 | 31 | 3.71 |
| 2017 | $256,593 | $362,609 | $5,100,350 | 83 | 83 | 1.41 |
| 2018 | $257,415 | $663,046 | $4,913,880 | 119 | 119 | 2.58 |
| 2019 | $1,038,584 | $3,372,738 | $21,806,520 | 323 | 321 | 3.25 |
| 2020 | $1,019,843 | $2,946,200 | $24,594,731 | 260 | 260 | 2.89 |
| 2021 | $65,003 | $173,501 | $902,078 | 24 | 24 | 2.67 |
| 2022 | $247,373 | $244,863 | $4,264,907 | 46 | 46 | 0.99 |
| 2023 | $2,827,417 | $4,385,798 | $43,627,307 | 267 | 267 | 1.55 |
| 2024 | $159,426 | $298,510 | $2,951,146 | 44 | 44 | 1.87 |
Commodities insured in Scott 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
- 1.35Low end of the filed band
- 2.75Middle of the filed band
- 3.20High end of the filed band
- 2021Worst year filed (3.75)
- 10Years filed
- $4,850,767Premium filed
- $10,504,384Indemnity paid
- $87,376,691Liability insured
- 96,226Quantity planted
- 97,659Quantity lost
- 789Policies
- 787Policies with a loss
- 2.17Loss ratio, whole span
Causes that carried the indemnity in Scott County
- Excess Moisture/Precipitation/Rain $2,949,368 indemnity · 7 years
- Drought $2,694,030 indemnity · 7 years
- Wind/Excess Wind $2,096,195 indemnity · 6 years
- Decline in Price $1,234,696 indemnity · 8 years
- ARPI/SCO/STAX/MP/HIP WI Crops Only $1,213,893 indemnity · 2 years
- Cold Wet Weather $157,190 indemnity · 3 years
Soybeans 10 years filed
- 0.85Low end of the filed band
- 1.94Middle of the filed band
- 3.60High end of the filed band
- 2016Worst year filed (6.69)
- 10Years filed
- $1,356,978Premium filed
- $2,947,433Indemnity paid
- $26,423,336Liability insured
- 45,280Quantity planted
- 40,959Quantity lost
- 493Policies
- 493Policies with a loss
- 2.17Loss ratio, whole span
Causes that carried the indemnity in Scott County
- Excess Moisture/Precipitation/Rain $1,171,856 indemnity · 10 years
- Drought $849,670 indemnity · 9 years
- Decline in Price $298,481 indemnity · 6 years
- Hail $209,239 indemnity · 5 years
- Cold Wet Weather $115,595 indemnity · 4 years
- ARPI/SCO/ECO/STAX/MP/PACE Crops Only $98,326 indemnity · 1 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.